#GivingTuesday is an umbrella under which many exciting projects take place! We are not a funding organization and each partner organization is responsible for its own initiative.
Featured Partner
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In addition to securing an anonymous donor with a matching grant of $150,000, departments across 92Y
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The United Nations Foundation is playing an integral role in #GivingTuesday's online
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Unilever strives to create a better future & inspire people to take small actions to make a big
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Do Something teens are all about action. This #GivingTuesday, teens nationwide are challenging the
All Partners
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1st Street Armoury Community Center
Nonprofit
Looking at a matching campaign as well as volunteer opportunities
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Nonprofit
Affinity is having a spoken word event on November 17 where we will launch our online fundraising campaign, which will end on Giving Tuesday, November 27. Arcus Foundation has generously offered to match donations up to $2,000!
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Nonprofit
We cannot wait to spread the word about #GivingTuesday a stellar alternative to Black Friday. We will be encouraging our Young Catalysts -- teens in the Midwest region -- to give in alternative ways such as giving of their time, crafting DIY gifts, and making contributions to causes in global education. We are honored to be a part of the #GivingTuesday campaign!
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Nonprofit
Help Cure Epilepsy Epilepsy is a debilitating brain disorder that affects more than 300,000 U.S. children under 15. As the busiest and most comprehensive program of its kind in the Midwest, the Epilepsy Center at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides an unparalleled level of care for children with epilepsy and other seizure disorders. The center specializes in the most difficult to treat forms of epilepsy, and is renowned for its work in Dravet syndrome, infantile seizures and febrile seizures.
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Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Nonprofit
A&BC is incorporating #Giving Tuesday as a part of its annual appeal.
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Nonprofit
Tutu Giving Party
5 - 7pm
DaVinci's Cafe & Cocktails
116 W. 3rd Street
Davenport, Iowa
Complimentary appetizers, great drink specials and give-aways
Mailed appeal, online appeal, Giving Tuesday activities at partner companies -
Nonprofit
Benevolent is built on person-to-person connection. We will bring the voice and perspective of those helped to the initiative, both leading up to and on #GivingTuesday.
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Small or Medium Business
We are hosting an employee canned food drive and our total goal is 500 cans. We are basing this off $1=1 can and our company is going to match our total earnings when we donate it to the Chicago Greater Depository
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Small or Medium Business
We are spreading the word about #GivingTuesday through our social media channels and through our enews communications.
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Nonprofit
We would like to promote #givingtuesday by offering social media cross promotion and placement on our website.
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Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity
Nonprofit
Chicagoland Habitat is partnering with Edelman to mobilize 250 Edelman volunteers to engage in a neighborhood revitilization program. We will be working in 3 neighborhoods, doing new construction, rehab, weatherization, removing blight and neighborhood clean up.
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Nonprofit
This #GivingTuesday join City Year Chicago to help keep students in school and on track to graduate.
More than one million students -- one every 26 seconds -- give up on school each year. Fifty percent of those dropouts come from just 12 percent of schools. City Year corps members choose to serve where the need is greatest. Of the 189 schools we serve nationwide, three quarters are among the lowest performing five percent in their state.
188 red-jacketed corps members at City Year Chicago are making a difference in 20 of Chicago's highest need schools. These young people serve as tutors, mentors and role models to nearly 4,200 students! Research shows that students at risk of dropping out can be identified as early as sixth grade by three early warning indicators -- poor attendance, disruptive behavior and course failure in math and English. Our Whole School Whole Child Model in based on that research, and corps members work with students identified as at-risk to provide academic support, attendance and positive behavior encouragement, and community and school improvements.
If you wish to make a gift to support our work and help end the dropout crisis in Chicago, please visit the following link:
https://ssl.charityweb.net/cityyear/?DonorIntent=Chicago
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Nonprofit
Spreading the word about #GivingTuesday through our Facebook and Twitter accounts to encourage people give to our organization by volunteering or donating to help older adults in the Chicago area, and reminding people to check in on their neighboring older adults this holiday season.
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Compass to Care Childhood Cancer Foundation
Nonprofit
SEND A DINA DOLL HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TO A CHILD BRAVING CANCER!! Compass to Care Childhood Cancer Foundation is inviting supporters to use Giving Tuesday to SEND A DINA DOLL HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TO A CHILD BRAVING CANCER. We want to send 2000 Dina Dolls home to the arms of children who will be in the hospital over the holiday season. For just a $20 donation, Compass to Care will deliver a doll on your behalf to a child in the hospital. Plus 100% of the donation will be used by the foundation to help children travel for cancer treatment. So in reality, you are giving a gift to 2 children. It is a great way to celebrate Giving Tuesday- by giving children with cancer a Dina Doll!
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Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Nonprofit
We will be incorporating Giving Tuesday as part of our annual appeal.
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Small or Medium Business
We will be sending out an email on November 27th informing all 1090 colleagues that we are offering a $20,000 match to any checks written by our colleagues to a 501(C)3 in December. We will match checks from $50 to $500.
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Nonprofit
The Cristo Rey Network intends to participate in #GivingTuesday through a social media campaign aimed at tapping into our fans and followers to secure online donations. Prior to the launch, we will promote #GivingTuesday through Facebook posts, tweets, and email blasts to generate excitement. On November 27th, the Cristo Rey Network will actively use social media to educate our audiences about the state of urban education and how, through their support, our organization will be able to continue transforming the lives of underrepresented youth by making dreams of college success a reality.
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Nonprofit
Participating in #GivingTuesday as part of our November Epilepsy Awareness Month Campaign, to support families facing seizures nationwide. We'll employ social media to encourage people to help others, just like Danny Did.
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Large Corporation or Brand
This #GivingTuesday, Discover is finding ways for our cardmembers, fans and employees to give more, give better and give smarter. We are engaging the Discover community in giving by offering a 2% match to donations to the national chapters of our charitable partners. We will also waive transaction fees to our charitable partners for donations made on #GivingTuesday. And finally, our cardmembers can donate their cashback bonus to our charitable partners and receive a 2% match. Join us this #GivingTuesday!
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District Fifteen Educational Foundation
Foundation
We will be promoting #givingtuesday by asking our 13,000 student families to give back on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. We will ask them to consider honoring a staff member or teacher with a donation in their name. We would like our Foundation to be one of the options for their giving.
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Small or Medium Business
DonorFuse will promote #GivingTuesday to its clients and networks by hosting a tweetchat #DFChat to discuss its impact.
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Nonprofit
We're encouraging the philanthropic and nonprofit leaders and practitioners in our community to take part in some way in #GivingTuesday as partners and social media ambassadors. As the only statewide association in Illinois for funders and nonprofits of all kinds, as well as advisers and consultants, we are ready to encourage the creativity and energy of everyone in America to work together for good: to give more, give smarter, and celebrate our country’s great spirit of contribution.
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Nonprofit
Give the gift of Museum Membership to a family or child you know for a whole year of learning, experiences and play.
The DuPage Children’s Museum mission is to stimulate curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem solving in young children through:
- self-directed, open-ended experiences
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Nonprofit
Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities. We plan to participate in #GivingTuesday by talking about it on our social media pages.
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Nonprofit
The Eastern Illinois Foodbank is promoting a fundraising initiative on #GivingTuesday with local radio and TV media.
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University
Eastern Illinois University has a long history of helping students defy expectations so that they could become the people they dared to dream they might be. In short, Eastern changes lives.
But, in this difficult economy, it’s hard for many families to afford a college education for their sons and daughters. That’s particularly true for the 40 percent of our students who are the first in their families to go to college.
Now more than ever, it is imperative that we offer our students an education that is both excellent and affordable. Now more than ever, the economic prosperity, the intellectual capacity, and the moral character of our state and nation rest on the shoulders of the men and women we prepare to learn, to lead, and to serve.
Please consider helping our students achieve their dreams and make a donation on this Giving Tuesday to support scholarships at Eastern Illinois University where we expect greatness every day.
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Environmental Law and Policy Center
Nonprofit
ELPC works throughout the Midwest to protect public health and the environment. We believe clean water and clean air are basic human rights, and we think clean energy and clean transportation are essential for our future. Please join us in advancing environmental progress and economic development together.
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School
Erikson is the leading graduate school in child development. On #GivingTuesday, we ask our alumni and friends to give back, either to Erikson’s innovative programs supporting young children and families, or to another cause of their choice. We will reach out through email, social media, and personal connections.
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Nonprofit
We will promote Giving Tuesday along with our alternative giving catalog, Covenant Cares, through e-newletters, blogs, Facebook and Twitter.
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Foundation
The Evans Scholars Foundation provides full tuition and housing scholarships to deserving young caddies from modest means. Currently, 835 young people are attending college this year as Evans Scholars. We will promote #GivingTuesday to all of our social media followers and will ask supporters to spread the word about the national campaign and the Evans Scholars Foundation on this day.
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Nonprofit
This #GivingTuesday Families of SMA will encourage our members and supporters to help spread SMA awareness to their social networks and promote the spirit of giving to fund SMA research and our numerous family support programs!
Visit www.curesma.org/annualcampaign to make your tax-deductible contribution and impact the lives of so many in the SMA Community.
Families of SMA funds and directs the leading SMA research programs to develop a treatment and cure for the disease. The successful results and progress that the organization has delivered, from basic research to drug discovery to clinical trials, provide real hope for families and patients impacted by the disease. The charity has invested over $50 million in research and been involved in funding half of all the ongoing novel drug programs for SMA. Families of SMA also provides support for families and patients today, including important patient care information, critical medical equipment and The Annual SMA Conference. The Annual SMA Conference is the largest gathering in the world of families affected by SMA and leading researchers and medical professionals who all come together to share their ideas and optimism for the future. -
Family Ideas Network for Down Syndrome
Nonprofit
Our Giving Tuesday campaign will provide funding for our tutoring program which brings in college students studying special education to provide tutoring assistance to elementary and middle school students with Down Syndrome.
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Nonprofit
We will be fundraising for our upcoming Christmas meal. We empower our community by serving nutritious cuisine with compassion and respect in a restaurant quality environment to anyone - regardless of situation, background or ability to pay while strengthening our community and nourishing hope.
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Nonprofit
As the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, Feeding America’s nation-wide network of food banks help provide meals to more than 37 million Americans each year, including 14 million children and 3 million seniors. On #GivingTuesday you can help give food and hope to families and children facing hunger in America.
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Nonprofit
November is National Adoption Month. On GivingTuesday, Gift of Adoption will identify a specific child who will be adopted into a permanent and loving family as a result of the funds raised - giving him/her the chance to thrive.
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Small or Medium Business
GiveForward and 17 Chicago Tech companies who will be adopting Chicago area families who are facing medical expenses this holiday season. Starting on As part of Tech the Halls, starting on Giving Tuesday, these companies will rally support and donations for these families and match all donations. Track their progress here: http://www.giveforward.com/techthehalls
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Glenwood Sunday Market a program of DevCorp North dba Rogers Park Business Alliance
Nonprofit
All donations that come in on Tuesday, November 27 will benefit our Community Shares Project which brings fresh, local organic produce from the farmers at our farmers market to food insecure families at local public elementary schools.
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Nonprofit
Goodman Theatre invites you join us for #GivingTuesday by making a gift in support of our new work initiatives. Every dollar you give will be matched, up to our goal of $25,000, and each gift helps the Goodman provide resources needed for emerging artists to create daring and influential work. Be a part of #GivingTuesday with the Goodman, and help spark the next generation of American theater.
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Nonprofit
Promoting Giving Tuesday by hosting a Sock Drive for Homeless Teens and encouraging people while they are out to pick up a pack of socks to donate.
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Large Corporation or Brand
Groupon will feature a collection of pro-bono fundraising campaigns on its website with a custom groupon.com/givingtuesday URL.
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Nonprofit
Heartland Alliance is the Leading Anti-Poverty Organization in the Midwest. We believe that all of us deserve the opportunity to improve our lives. Each year, we help ensure this opportunity for more than one million people around the world who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety. We will use our giving Tuesday campaign to promote our gift catalog as a tangible way for donors to give to our organization while giving items to people in need.
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Nonprofit
HJWC will be collecting toys for Gift of Season. HJWC partners with Hinsdale Community Services to provide toys to families that may not be able to afford them in hard financial times. We have been a partner with HCS for over 10 years.
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School
Holy Trinity is a high-performing, faith-inclusive Catholic high school committed to giving all students an outstanding education and preparing them to succeed in college and in life.
Holy Trinity High School will be using social media to spread the word about Giving Tuesday and Holy Trinity. Thanks to a generous donor, any gifts to The Fund for Holy Trinity will be matched 1:1! -
Nonprofit
For the past 15 years HDF has been fighting extreme poverty through a unique holistic model of development focused on lasting change.
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Illinois State Dental Society Foundation
Foundation
As an IRS 501 c 3 public foundation developing ways to increase contributions from within the statewide membership of the Illinois State Dental Society to support scholarships for Dental School Students, Community Grants for Health Organizations creating access to care for Illinois citizens and other programs and initiatives within our Mission and Purpose.