What better gift could you give to a family member, friend, employee or customer than a gift that you’re absolutely sure is the gift that person wants most?

And, this gift has the added feature that it supports our local businesses, which helps to improve our local economy, and everything that goes with that, like our schools, parks, and jobs.

Why? A community is made of three primary components: consumers, businesses and charitable organizations. The Lehigh Valley Gift Card is designed to integrate and support all three. Unlike other gift cards and gift certificates that can only be spent at one place, the Lehigh Valley Gift Card can be spent at businesses all across the Lehigh Valley from restaurants and jewelry stores to florists, gift shops and boutiques to salons, spas, sporting goods and much more.

Even better, one percent of all gift cards sales is being donated by Membership Services Corporation to United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley for local, Lehigh Valley needs. And, another matching one percent goes to ALL other participating Lehigh Valley Charitable organizations. (Is your favorite association, school or church involved?) So if you’re shopping at or frequenting the participating businesses anyway, please make your purchases with a Lehigh Valley Gift Card and support our local charities. It costs you nothing extra!

Imagine if everyone who lives in the Lehigh Valley bought just two $25 Lehigh Valley Gift Cards each year instead of shopping for gifts through a catalog, online or outside the Lehigh Valley. This would pump $30 million into the Lehigh Valley each year.

Every Lehigh Valley resident can participate, whether by accepting the Gift Card as a merchant, shopping with the Gift Card as a consumer, or handing out flyers about the Gift Card to benefit your favorite school, sports team, church or other local charity.