Benevity celebrates over $140 million donated and a 17% increase in volunteer hours logged on GivingTuesday

Benevity, Inc., the market-leading global provider of corporate social responsibility solutions, announced that over $140 million was donated to nonprofits through its platform on GivingTuesday. This marks another milestone day of donations and volunteer efforts supported on Benevity’s platform with 637 companies participating this year. With more than 148,000 individuals coming together to support over 56,000 nonprofits across 122 countries and territories this year, Benevity saw donation dollars per donor increase by an estimated 2% year over year. The most popular causes that companies and individuals contributed to this year…

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Giving Tuesday 2024

Giving Tuesday is on Tuesday 3 December 2024, and the website has given the following information for organisations wishing to take part on their website here, and below: What is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement, that celebrates and encourages doing good. Giving Tuesday is all about the different ways you can give, you can:  Volunteer your time  Give some money  Campaign for something  Share your skills  Fundraise for something  Donate goods  Buy something from a charity shop  You can do your something good on Giving Tuesday,…

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Giving Tuesday triumphs in UK despite social distancing

Giving Tuesday brought in £14,000 a minute for good causes in the UK, defying the challenges of social distancing to deliver a bumper fundraising day for charities across the country. The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), which runs the campaign in the UK, has revealed figures from Visa showing that £20.2 million was donated via their payment platforms in the UK on 1 December.  This amounts to £14,000 a minute – and is a 42% rise in donations made through Visa compared to Giving Tuesday in 2019. The Big Give Christmas…

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United Airlines Pledges Millions of Miles to Non-Profits on Giving Tuesday

United Airlines continues its successful Miles on a Mission campaign this Giving Tuesday by pledging to match customer donations up to a total of 10 million MileagePlus® miles to featured Miles on a Mission partners. The campaign is a first-of-its-kind crowdsourcing platform that gives customers a simple, and easy way to donate miles to non-profit organizations and charities in need of air travel. Brian Kelly, founder and CEO of The Points Guy, will kick off a holiday donation drive today in Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport by meeting and encouraging…

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Smile Train Kicks Off ‘Give Smiles’ Campaign on Biggest Giving Day of the Year, Giving Tuesday

Entering its seventh year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. In celebration of the day and the season of giving, Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, kicked off their annual ‘Give Smiles’ campaign. Smile Train is asking supporters to donate and #GiveSmiles on Giving Tuesday, with the goal of raising $130,000 to provide cleft care to an additional 520 children in honor of the day. Smile Train will participated in a livestream on Giving Tuesday hosted by Devin Thorpe. Thorpe…

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