WWF-Canada is pleased to become a part of the ECHOage solution that provides a unique opportunity for your child to learn about environmental issues at a young age. More importantly, it allows you and your child to make a real and lasting difference while celebrating the child's birthday.

Here's how an ECHOage birthday party works: Guests are invited to an ECHOage birthday party online. Instead of bringing a wrapped and packaged present, guests simply RSVP and give a secure online contribution. It's that easy. ECHOage pools all of the contributions and the birthday child uses a portion to purchase ONE special birthday present from all their friends AND makes a donation to the charity of their choice with the balance.ECHOage will arrange everything, so your guests won't need to drive, shop, wrap or even pick up the phone to make a donation!

WWF-Canada is a federally registered charity (# 11930 4954 RR0001) and a tax receipt will be issued to the party host. Supporting WWF-Canada as your charity of choice couldn't be easier!

Visit www.echoage.com to green your child's next birthday celebration by supporting WWF-Canada!

"I would like to offer ECHOage.com as one of the greatest green birthday party ideas to come on the scene in a long time. For my sons' combined first and third birthday party I used ECHOage to send out paperless invitations, manage my RSVP's and ease the gift buying headache for parents -- the site enables parents/guests to donate money towards ONE special (and wrapping-free!) gift for a child along with a sizeable donation to a charity of my or my child's choice. In using ECHOage we not only avoided the mountain of garbage that is produced in unnecessary wrapping of multiple toys/gifts, but we avoided the mountain of small, plastic (sometimes toxic) toys for our children. My children chose one special gift for themselves and the balance (half) of the money was donated to a fabulous charity. Not only did we do something great for the environment, but we changed people's lives as well".

-Mia


"ECHOage is great idea and a "win-win-win" for the birthday child, the parent and the guest. The child has the opportunity of giving and feeling great about it. The parent models the importance of thinking of others and doesn't have to focus on buying and mailing invitations and then receiving so many gifts their children just don't need. As for invited guests, there is no need to take so much time to run around and think about the "perfect present", not to mention the environmental savings on gift wrapping, gas, etc. It's a wonderfully creative idea and it teaches our children that it feels not only good to get, but great to give. I love it!"

-Janet