This month of giving thanks, I’m trying to put a lot of focus on non-profit organizations and goodwill programs that you can help directly. You may have already heard of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, which provides specially designed, durable, packed with activities, kid-friendly laptops to children in developing countries where computers are a scarce commodity. MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, upon seeing firsthand how computers significantly impact children’s learning abilities, set out to develop a computer specifically to duplicate the effect. The result is the amazing XO computer, designed in collaboration with teachers and computer experts for maximum education (and enjoyment).

Here’s where you come in. For the next two weeks ONLY, you can purchase not one, but two of these unique XO computers for $400. One laptop goes to a child in a designated country, and one goes to a child in your life. Don’t need another computer? One computer is $200, and will bring a child an open door to information, art programs, games, and communication abilities that we take for granted every day. Considering these places can only afford $20 per year on a child at school, I say it’s worth sacrificing Starbucks for a little while and shift that money to where it’s needed much, much more.