All this week, we'll fuel your holiday gift imagination with some timely buying suggestions:   • Sunday: Holiday CDs   • Monday: Harry Potter-themed toys and games   • Tuesday: New-tech gadgets   • Wednesday: Gifts for the disabled   • Today: Gifts that give back to a charity or cause   • Friday: Patriotic holiday ornaments   • Saturday: Holiday home gifts

        Every holiday season rumbles in with the troublesome problem of managing a growing shopping list and still having money for the needy — the homeless, the sick, the struggling.

        Through the work of more creative marketing and good-hearted merchants, shopping and good deeds can go hand-in-hand.

        Teddy bears are a favorite gift with a cause. Lipstick, skin-care potions, jewelry, cookie molds and patriotic prints, too, can aid everything from feeding the hungry to neutering pets, helping New York's firefighters to teaching a money-generating craft to the unskilled.

        Here are a baker's dozen of gifts that keep on giving:

        • “Cincinnati Through the Eyes of a Child” poster, $15, limited to 3,000, benefits 4C, working to improve quality, affordability and availability of child care and early education. At KeyBank branches, and at 4C, 1225 E.McMillan Ave., Walnut Hills, and 20 N. Grand Ave., Fort Thomas.

        • $1 from every $8.25 cookie mold from a Pampered Chef rep goes to America's Second Harvest for groceries for local communities. Information: 761-9419.

        • Pin ($12) sold by Hillel Jewish Student Center in Clifton to help feed breakfast to the homeless in Over-the-Rhine. At 2615 Clifton Ave. or by mail. Information: 221-6728.

        • Dress for Success, which provides clothes and coaching for needy women hunting for jobs, benefits from sales of Oil of Olay's holiday gift set (body wash, UV-protective moisture lotion, nail lacquer, lipstick, moisturizer, $15.99).

        • Ralph Lauren donates to the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research in Washington for every purchase of a stuffed bear family ($16.50 with any $35 Ralph Lauren fragrance purchase).

        • Liz Claiborne donates profits from its sterling silver snake chain to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a nonprofit organization. Each bead is inscribed with the campaign message: “Love is not abuse.” It's $14 at www.lizclaiborne.com or (800) 449-7867.

        • Edie Harper T-shirts ($20, sweatshirts, $30), ornaments by Melinda Way ($8) and stone coasters ($10 each or four for $38) sold at Intuitive, 913 Vine St., help Cat SNIP, a low-cost spay-neuter program for pets operated by the Scratching Post. Information: 721-6772.

        • Earrings and necklaces ($5-$45) made by low-income women developing a marketable skill at the Sarah Center, 1600 Vine St., downtown. Open house 8 a.m.-6 p.m. today and Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Information: 651-1532.

        • Avon's Breast Cancer Crusade is funded by the sale of pink ribbon lipsticks ($4), Beany bears ($3), pink ribbon pens ($3), pins ($3) and candles ($3.50), all available at www.avoncompany.com/women/avoncrusade/pinkribbon.come.

        • $15 of the $35 price of the patriotic safety pin bracelet goes to the Twin Towers Fund in New York, At www.eziba.com.

        • Osterman Jewelers donates $3 from the $9.95 Cubby the Bear, available with any jewelry purchase, to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

        • Swarovski Crystal, ornament and jewelry-makers, will donate $100,000 from the sale of the Brave Heart Pin ($35 at the Pewter Place Engravery at Kenwood Towne Centre) to the September 11 Fund.

        • Kohl's department stores donate all profits from the sale of $5 teddy bears, bear ornament, The Night Before Christmas book or a holiday CD to Children's Hospital Medical Center. At stores or www.kohls.com and search for Kohl's for Kids.

        • Net profits from “We Are the Eagle in the Storm,” a 20-by-16-inch print ($60 unframed, $140 framed) by D. Morgan go to the New York Firefighters 9-11 Disaster Relief Fund. (877) 210-3456.

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