Giving Tuesday began as an idea in 2011, the brainchild of the non-profit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company in Chicago. The date range is November 27 to December 3, and is always five days after the Thanksgiving holiday. In 2016, #GivingTuesday broke a record with a total of USD 168 million in charitable donations worldwide.
About Giving Tuesday in brief
Giving Tuesday began as an idea in 2011, the brainchild of the non-profit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company in Chicago. The idea for GivingTuesday was first announced in October 2012, a month before the first planned GivingTuesday. Charitable giving on Giving Tuesday in 2013 was approximately twice the value in 2012. Over 7,000 nonprofits participated in the 2013 Giving Tuesday. In 2016, according to USA Today, #GivingTuesday broke a record with a total of USD 168 million in charitable donations worldwide, topping the 2015 total by 44 million. Facebook’s principal founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan published an open letter to their newborn daughter, announcing their intention to donate 99%+ of Zuckerberg’s wealth through the newly formed Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The John Templeton Foundation released a survey based on a survey of Americans that showed that whereas 93% of respondents were familiar with Black Friday, only 18% were familiarwith Giving Tuesday, showing that the day still had a long way to go in terms of achieving name recognition.
In 2015, Blackbaud supplied data to show real-time statistics on an online dashboard to highlight the impact of #Giving Tuesday. Blackb aud processed more than USD 47 million from more than 7 million donors on the day. In 2014, the #GivingTower is a partnership between 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation, and Crowdrise. Every donation in the # givingTower represents a brick in the virtual Tower. In 2013, the number of people donating to charity on GivingTuesday reached more than 1.2 million. The total amount of money moved for the day was USD 117 million. In 2012, the total amount moved for Giving Tuesday was USD 45. 7 million. Of this, USD 26. 1 million was processed by Black baud. The tally did not include USD 7. 5 million that Indiegogo claimed to have raised for 419 nonprofits on that day. The number of charitable donations on Giving Wednesday reached over 1.1 million, and the total number of donations for Giving Wednesday was over 1,000,000. The date range is November 27 to December 3, and is always five days after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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