Campaign Kit, which includes a media release, blurbs for newsletters, a skit and other helpful, educational items. Alternatives' seasonal resources appropriate for reevaluation of Christmas include collections of Christmas stories to read aloud or alone and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas video. Two guidelines to help plan alternative fall events have been updated and reissued - How to Organize a Alternative Christmas Community Festival and Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop. Alternatives has reissued Leader's Guide to the 'Unplug the Christmas Machine' Workshop, the companion to the classic Unplug the Christmas Machine. This guide helps leaders create a four hour workshop that helps participants clarify their beliefs and make realistic plans for more joyful, meaningful celebrations.
Alternatives also produces resources for year-round simpler living.
Alternatives is a non-profit organization that has been equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly, and celebrate responsibly since 1973. Alternatives serves everyone and receives funds from grants, memberships, donations and sale of resources.