Pima County Public Library Shared 'How Giving Tuesday Works'

Press release from the Pima County Public Library :

December 1, 2020

Perhaps you shopped on Black Friday and bought stuff online on Cyber Monday.

Today, Giving Tuesday, is a day to give back and consider where would we be without the nonprofits that help so many of us improve the quality and sustainability of our time here on earth. Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to help the nonprofits that help us feed people who are hungry, shelter us on a cold night, teach adults to read and speak English, and form a safety net for our children from cradle to career.

What: Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. It is celebrated the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

How to donate on Giving Tuesday: there is no centralized web portal for donations. Just visit the websites of the nonprofits that you wish to support and donate through their website. If you use the hashtag #GivingTuesday Facebook may offer incentives and more ways to help.

Giving Tuesday in the News:
"50 Virtual Giving Tuesday Service Ideas" (from Signup Genius)

"COVID-19 is increasing demands on nonprofits. Here are 3 ways you can help this Giving Tuesday" (from Arizona Daily Star)

The Library cannot do what we do without the following nonprofits:

• Friends of the Library (there are now 6 groups!)
  Friend Your Library
• Pima Library Foundation
  The Foundation supports the Library by raising money for strategic programs and a permanent endowment fund
• Literacy Connects
  Connecting people of all ages to a world of opportunities through literacy and creative expression
• Make Way for Books
  Share Stories, Change Lives
• United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
  Big challenges call for big solutions
• Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
  Leading the way to a healthy, hunger-free community
• SARSEF
  Creating Arizona’s future critical thinkers and problem solvers through science and engineering
• Youth On Their Own
  Supporting the high school graduation and continued success of youth experiencing homelessness
• Metropolitan Education Commission
  Advocates for a quality and affordable education from preschool to post-secondary for all residents of the City of Tucson and Pima County
• Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
  Managing the public art process for the city and county, providing grant opportunities, and supporting professional development for artists and arts organizations in Tucson and Southern Arizona
• Mission Garden, Friends of Tucson's Birthplace
  Our mission is to preserve, honor, protect, restore, re-create and promote the cultural heritages and historic landscapes of Tucson’s Birthplace at the foot of Sentinel Peak
• Native Seeds/SEARCH
  Seeks to find, protect and preserve the seeds of the people of the Greater Southwest so that these arid-adapted crops may benefit all peoples and nourish a changing world
• Living Streets Alliance
  Our mission is to advocate for a thriving Tucson by creating great streets for all of us
• Arizona Humanities
  Builds a just and civil society by creating opportunities to explore our shared human experiences through discussion, learning, and reflection
• Dunbar Pavilion
  Preserving our culture, cultivating our future
• The Drawing Studio
  We bring art and the benefits of creating art to the entire community

This press release was produced by the Pima County Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.