Community Corner
Giving Tuesday: A Chance to Give Back During the Holiday Season
Several Rockville-area nonprofits are among the partners encouraging Americans to find a way to help others.
Will donating to charity ever be as popular as shopping during the holiday season?
A partnership of nonprofits hopes so.
Coming on the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday—days devoted to consumerism—Giving Tuesday, observed Nov. 27, hopes "to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season," according to the campaign's website. "It celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations."
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See the bottom of this page for links to Rockville-area nonprofits partnering in the effort, including:
- American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- Fisher House Foundation Inc.
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- Capital Camps & Retreat Center
The effort includes the Twitter hashtag #GivingTuesday, designed to help spread the word.
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What do you think? Can a social media push get people giving more of their money and time to charities during the holiday season?
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