Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, it's time to set our sights on the most wonderful time of year - the holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or another holiday, chances are you will be buying a gift or two. Why not opt for charitable gifts that provide help for those in need?

Here is Part 1 of our 2009 Gifts That Give Back series!

- Lush Charity Pot Lotion ($20): Change the world, one pot at a time. This homemade and animal-friendly hand and body lotion made with organic almond oil smells like a fresh spring garden, plus, 100% of proceeds support environmental, humanitarian and animal rights charities.

- Keep a Child Alive "Drug Dealer" Tank or Tee ($35): This shirt might earn you a few funny looks, but you can assure your friends that it's all for a good cause. Proceeds of these hilarious shirts will fund ARV drugs for HIV/AIDS patients via Keep a Child Alive.

- Provide a goat for a third world family ($120): Gifts that give back means sometimes not receiving anything for yourself at all. By purchasing a goat for a third-world family, you'll be providing both nutrition and income for people in need. Goats thrive in extreme climates and on poor, dry land and can still supply a family with several quarts of milk a day - a ton of milk a year. Extra milk can be sold or used to make cheese, butter or yogurt. The goat manure can also fertilize gardens.

- Build A Nest's 'better together' necklace ($62): This necklace features original artwork by Laurel Denise in a piece of translucent glass and by itself, makes a great gift. Paired with the fact that all proceeds go towards changing the lives of women in developing countries, it makes an AWESOME gift.

- Pangea Organics Gift Sets (price varies): Each gift set of organically delicious skincare products comes in a box made from 100% post-consumer newsprint without glues or dyes and is embedded with the seeds of a Spruce Tree. Soak the box, plant it in your garden, and soon you'll have a baby Spruce tree! How festive.

-St. Jude's Retro Green Scooter ($59 $49): On the surface, this is just another retro green scooter that the child on your list would adore. Behind the scooter, however, is one very happy child who will benefit from the donation to St. Jude's that comes from the purchase of each of these all-steel scooters bearing the St. Jude's logo.