How will you celebrate Pass on the Gift month? The spirit of Pass on the Gift draws together communities, and during the month of April, you can bring together your own community to express your support of Heifer. The suggestions below are just a start. Get creative and celebrate in your own way!

Join Team Heifer
Hundreds of teams are already committed to ending hunger and poverty by fundraising for Heifer. Set your goal, recruit team members and let your friends and family know that you're interested in supporting Heifer. Together, we can all end hunger and poverty! Start a team today. And if you're hosting a capstone event, please add it to the worldwide Pass on the Gift map.

Host a Meal
Hold an international-themed dinner featuring foods from countries and regions where Heifer works. Decorate the room with displays and maps featuring information about what Heifer is doing around the world. Download the resource kit or order the full kit by calling (800) 422-0474. And don't forget to add your meal event to the worldwide Pass on the Gift map.

Sponsor a Heifer-theme at your book club in April
Suggest a book about the challenges of hunger, poverty or environmental issues  for your book club to read during Pass on the Gift Month. Gather sponsors – friends, family, colleagues or even local businesses – to support your efforts and discussions. Donate to help families find solutions to the problems you read about.

Organize a Chores for Change Challenge
Challenge your family, friends and colleagues to volunteer their time for an established hunger-fighting organization, like local soup kitchens or food banks. Ask each participant to recruit sponsors to pledge donations for time spent in volunteer activities. When your challenge ends, have participants collect the donations and send them to Heifer International to help fight hunger.

Coordinate a Dare-A-Thon
Have your friends ever dared you to do something fun and crazy? Do you think they’d like to?
Let your friends and family dare you to do something zaney in exchange for a donation to Heifer International: shave your head/facial hair; take a pie to the face; or, in true Heifer spirit, kiss a pig! Let loose, put your friends’ money to good use and show your commitment to making the world a better place! Add your event to the worldwide Pass on the Gift map.

Help Others by Simplifying Your Life
Establish groups of families in your neighborhood to pool their salable items and hold a mass garage sale. Publicize the event and use the opportunity to “pass on the gift” of knowledge about hunger and poverty during the sale. Invite your local paper or TV crews to cover the giant neighborhood-wide event. And make sure that all your customers know that the proceeds are benefiting those in need here in the United States and around the world!

Organize a Casual Day at the Office
Convince your employer to hold a casual day or week at the office. Your colleagues pay to dress casually on the “Passing on the Gift Days” of your choice this April and you send the proceeds to benefit Heifer programs around the world! Add your event to the worldwide Pass on the Gift map.

Pass On the Gift of Pounds!
Collect dollars and cents to help those in need while shedding some extra “pounds.” Lose some weight while helping others create sustainable livelihoods. Ask friends, family and colleagues to sponsor your weight loss. For each pound lost, you’re raising funds to donate to Heifer’s mission to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth!