UniversalGiving was featured for Mother's Day this year in the Orlando Sentinel, in an article about gifts that benefit charity:
Consider the charitable online donation platform UniversalGiving.org, which lets you donate in mom's name in varying amounts to a host of worthy causes. For instance, you might give $15 so that a child in poverty can have a soccer ball to play with -- or $100 to help rescue a Nepali girl from bonded servitude. Your gift to mom can help the homeless, rescue a puppy or buy books for kids in Africa or adult literacy programs in the U.S.