Welcome to the Tweep Trends Podcast. Hey, Evette, what's trending today? Hey, I'm Evette. Hey, girl.
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Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement. Here in the United States, Giving Tuesday is locally led in over 240 communities, networks, and coalitions. Now, there are so many different ways that you can express generosity on Giving Tuesday. However, you do not need to keep it specifically for Giving Tuesday.
Don't wait for this one day out of the entire year to decide that you want to give. Do this every single day. Find one way that you can give to someone or something. And it's a simple idea, whether it's making somebody smile or maybe helping a neighbor out or even a stranger.
Who knows? Just being able to show up and show out for someone or maybe for a cause that you care about. Those are all the different ways that we can give. You can give your time.
You can give gratitude. And you can give support financially. And even if you feel like those things are just too much, like we said before, a smile is enough. That's something that you can give for free.
Start there and build your way up. And then when you get a little bit more time on your hands, then you can donate your time. You can take some time to write a thank you note to somebody, show some gratitude. And then when you get to be big time and you have some extra funds, then that's when you show by giving financial donations.
Let's dive a little deeper. One of the ways that you can give of yourself is to give your time. Now, the first thing that comes to mind when you think of giving time is volunteering, right? That's exactly where I was going with this.
So great. We're on the same page here. You may be saying, but in these COVID times, I don't know that I want to go and be around people because some people don't care anything about anyone else. They're only caring about self.
They don't want to wear masks. And I don't want to subject myself to that. Well, guess what? We're on the same page with that too, because I'm not down for catching COVID from somebody who's just all willy-nilly, all about doing whatever.
So but you can volunteer virtually from your home. You can give your voice to help raise awareness for a local issue. You can lend your talents to a nonprofit who needs your expertise. Or maybe even just take some time out to call a senior citizen.
All of those are great ideas and ways that you can give of your time. Now as far as giving gratitude, when's the last time you think the postal worker or delivery driver or some other essential worker out there? Use those opportunities. Write a little note.
You don't have to see them face to face. Write a note. Drop it in the mailbox and put it to you, mail carrier. Or just when you're out and about, it doesn't take a lot.
You don't even have to pay postage for some of these because you can just put it in the person's hand and keep it moving, right? And then as far as community organizations and nonprofits, they definitely need your support now more than ever. So you can find organizations to support through your local Giving Tuesday community movement. And you may be wondering, well, where can I find out about that?
I got you. Did you know that there was a Giving Tuesday website? Well, there is. GivingTuesday.org.
Go there and you're going to see a giant picture of the world. Pick the location where you are or the place where you want to be able to make some type of an impact and then it'll kind of narrow down the view to that location. So when I did it, I took the United States. It had one little spot to click on.
And then when you get to the next screen, though, it shows you all these different little places on the map in the United States where you can go to to see, well, what do they have going on for Giving Tuesday? How can I help this particular community? And now, granted, there are certain parts of the United States where it looks like it's a little slim. Slim to none, as a matter of fact.
But we can always build on this. We can see where the little dots are now. And then for next year, we can make sure that people in those other places have something going on, some way to give, some way to celebrate not just this day, Giving Tuesday, but to celebrate every day of the year and be able to be there for the people in the community, in the diaspora, whatever it is that you're focused on, then that's what you do. That's what you focus on.
So there are a number of hashtags that are listed as far as, let's see, there's Bitcoin Tuesday, Give for DV, Refugees Give, Giving Tuesday Mutual Aid, Muslims Give, Giving Tuesday LGBTQ, Giving Tuesday Military, Giving Zude, I Give Catholic, Pandemic of Love, Giving Innovation Tuesday, Give to Women and Girls, Give Black, that's BLCK, Give 65, Philanthropy Together, Next Gen Generosity, News Match, Giving Bay Day, Latinx Give. I mean, these are all hashtags that I'm mentioning to you with hyperlinks. So you go to these particular hashtags with hyperlinks and it'll take you to a place to show you other ways that you can participate through these various groups and organizations. I don't know how much easier it can get than this.
So definitely check out the website, givingtuesday.org, look for the place where you want to make an impact and just click it, baby. Thank you so much for hanging out with me for today's episode. Little do you know it, but you gave me a gift because you gave me a smile just by being here with me today. With today being Giving Tuesday, remember check them out on their website, givingtuesday.org.
You can also look them up on Twitter and Instagram at GivingTuesday. And remember, give your time, give your talents, your generosity, your gratitude, we all have something to give. But you don't have to save it all for today, spread it throughout the entire year and make Giving Tuesday every day.