Local charities looking to cash in on Giving Tuesday
Charities across the world are looking to cash in on Giving Tuesday. It’s a relatively new tradition of having a day for donations following a big weekend of holiday shopping from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving and local charitable organizations, large and small, are looking for you to open your heart and your wallet.
On Monday night several people were taking care of some holiday shopping at the Angel View store in Cathedral City, knowing the money they are spending goes to a good cause. The organization has spent the last 62 years helping families and children with disabilities. Angel View might cash in on selling donated items, but they plan on making an especially pretty penny on Giving Tuesday.
“Certainly Giving Tuesday is a big contributor to just making people aware of these needs a charitable organizations and it focuses a day for people to start the beginning of the charity season,” said Patti Park, the executive director of Angel View.
Giving Tuesday has been around for about five years and has become a global day of making donations to charity. The hashtag #GivingTuesday trends worldwide. For some people that means giving their time, such as volunteering packaging food for the less fortunate. Others choose to give money, lots of it. In 2015, nonprofits in the U.S. raised more than $117 million online alone.
The College of the Desert Foundation is hoping for a big haul on Giving Tuesday. People who make donations online will be giving money to help local students pay for an education.
“Twenty five dollars can help a student with their travel expenses, $50 can help a student with books, $100 would be a nice scholarship for our students so any amount of money is helping to change lives here at the college,” said Peter Sturgeon, interim executive director for the foundation. Last year the foundation made $4200. People can make scholarship donations at CODFoundation.org.
Non-profits are looking forward to a long giving season which lasts from Thanksgiving until New Year’s when some people choose to make last minute donations which can help when they file their taxes.
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