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Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity Joins the Global GivingTuesday Movement

Matt Boster

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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Nov 18 2015 9:03 AM

DOTHAN: Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity hopes to encourage a day of online giving as well as awareness of how important giving is during this season. Occurring this year on December 1, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday to kick-off the holiday giving season and inspire people to collaborate in improving their local communities and to give back in impactful ways to the charities and causes they support.   



Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity is participating in #GivingTuesday for the first time in 2015. Their Board of Directors has pledged their support to #GivingTuesday by agreeing to match dollar for dollar up to $500 raised on December 1, 2015. Trinity & Associates Electrical has also pledged a dollar for dollar match of up to $250.



Amy Schutz, Executive Director for Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity, said "We live and work in a caring and involved community. #GivingTuesday is a great opportunity to show that. The matching gifts from our Board of Directors and Trinity & Associates Electrical will help each donation we receive on December 1st go even further. We hope to make this an annual day of giving and also encourage donors to become part of our Hope Builders through monthly donations throughout the coming year."



92Y −  a cultural center in New York City that, since 1874, has been bringing people together around its core values of community service and giving back − conceptualized #GivingTuesday as a new way of linking individuals and causes to strengthen communities and encourage giving. In 2014, the third year of the movement, #GivingTuesday brought together 30,000 partners in 68 countries and registered 32.7 million impressions on Twitter, with its eponymous hashtag mentioned 698,600 times. Since 2012, online giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving has increased more than four-fold, based on findings by Blackbaud and the Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, produced in partnership with the Case Foundation.  


“We have been incredibly inspired by the generosity in time, efforts and ideas that have brought our concept for a worldwide movement into reality,” said Henry Timms, founder of #GivingTuesday and executive director of 92Y. “As we embark on our fourth year of #GivingTuesday, we are encouraged by the early response from partners eager to continue making an impact in this global conversation.”   



Those who are interested in joining Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity’s #GivingTuesday initiative can visit the Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity website (www.wiregrasshabitat.org) or Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WiregrassHabitat). For more details about the #GivingTuesday movement, visit the #GivingTuesday website (www.givingtuesday.org), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/GivingTuesday) or follow @GivingTues and the #GivingTuesday hashtag on Twitter.





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