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Giving Tuesday: A Chance to Give Back During the Holiday Season
Several southern Connecticut charities among the nonprofits trying to encourage people to pause in their shopping and 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.
For many people, the holiday shopping marathon began on Thanksgiving day, with some national chains opening their doors just hours after the traditional turkey dinner. Then comes Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, which has morphed into Cyber Week.
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Now, there's a new campaign asking you to open your wallet — Giving Tuesday.
The Giving Tuesday website says the effort, coming on the heels of days devoted to consumerism, is designed "to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season. It celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations."
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Nonprofits from southern Connecticut taking part in Giving Tuesday include the Coast Guard Foundation (Stonington), United Way of Southeastern Connecticut, the SHARON Foundation (Guilford), giveGreater.org (New Haven), Gaylord Specialty Healthcare (Wallingford), the International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven), Innovations for Poverty Action (New Haven) and the Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut (New Haven).
The effort includes the Twitter hashtag #GivingTuesday, designed to help spread the word.
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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