Giving Tuesday, 2025 - Are You Ready?

Are you ready for Giving Tuesday, 2025? Since 2012 this global giving event has tried to unleash the power of radical generosity, drawing donors to social benefit and nonprofit organizations throughout the world. This year it will be held on December 2nd.

Is your organization ready?  

Visit this page to learn more. 

Since 1993 I've maintained a list of Chicago area volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs and plotted locations of more than 100 on my map.  My goal for the past 32 years has been to help programs in every poverty area get the support they need to connect kids and volunteers in on-going learning and mentoring, not just a few high profile programs.  

If you look through the list of programs and visit their websites, you can usually find a donations page.  I'm not sure you'll find a special Giving Tuesday page.

I wrote a long article about Giving Tuesday in 2023 and shared images of several Chicago youth programs to illustrate how people beyond the nonprofit organization could be using their media and influence to draw attention to this event, and to the various youth-serving programs in their community.  I hope you'll read it.

I wrote another long article in January 2024, showing my goal of creating platforms, like Amazon.com, that attract volunteers, donors, parents, media and others to lists of youth serving programs and to donation pages that encourage giving and aggregate information about how much is being given to individual organizations, and to different neighborhoods.

In that article I showed one giving platform, attracting donors to Democratic candidates throughout the USA.  That's an example of what type of platform could be created to draw attention and donors to all of the various youth-serving programs in Chicago or different places.

Does anyone have something like this yet?  If yes, please share the link.  In the meantime, look at how other nonprofits are using their websites and social media to attract support. Borrow from good ideas. Share you own.

Every November since 2011 I've launched a campaign to attract funding to the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, by giving a gift to recognize my December 19th birthday.  I'll be 79 this year and with your help I'll reach 80 and still be doing this work. 

I'll still promote this on-going Fund T/MI page, too. 

Thanks for reading. Good luck on your year-end fund raising. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Facebook, BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram and/or Mastodon to share your ideas and your websites.