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6 Tips for Giving Tuesday

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We've been updating you on all the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals — and now it's time to talk about Giving Tuesday! Are you giving to charity today? In general, do you prefer to focus your contributions locally, nationally, internationally, or a mix? Is your city doing a big Giving Tuesday campaign today — led by the United Way, for example?

{related: the 411 on how to help charities — how to start donating money, time, or something else}

Giving Tuesday Resources and Tips

1. Find your country's Giving Tuesday hub with this map. GivingTuesday.org offers lots of info and ideas.

2. Consider using an online platform that evaluates charities, such as Charity Navigator, BBB Wise Giving Alliance (Give.org), and CharityWatch. (ProPublica has guidance on evaluating charities.)

3. On Giving Tuesday, lots of nonprofits will have a particular donor matching people's donations up to a certain amount, so look for those opportunities on individual charities' websites to double your contribution!

{related: under pressure: charitable giving at the office}

4. Check if your employer has an employee matching program — you can ask HR, use Charity Navigator's search tool, or check the website of the organization you want to donate to.

5. Think about lending a hand more “casually” and/or in person. You can help local mutual aid groups, for example. To find them, use this search tool from Mutual Aid Hub or google “[Your City] Mutual Aid Network.” (The Cut offered tips in this 2020 story.)

GivingTuesday.org has lots more options, such as giving blood (here's what it's like), distributing necessities to unhoused people, and paying for the person behind you at the drive-through (just not like this (NSFW)).

6. Remember to deduct your charitable contributions on your taxes if you use Schedule A of Form 1040 to file. (Here are tips from Investopedia.)

Have you donated to charity today, or are you planning to? Does your company typically match donations?

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Some of the top matching opportunities we saw for Giving Tuesday 2023…

Here's Charity Navigator's article on how these “matching” opportunities might be working behind the scenes. Mentions are not endorsements of the charity.)

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  2. i am a used-to-be-thin now less thin menopausal mom. Keep seeing on instagram that i should eat more and more and more protein. I mostly already do Eggs for breakfast, meat for both lunch and dinner… is there some magic way a person can eat more protein than this? like some of these “influencers” are talking about eating so many grams of protein that I can’t even see how you could do it mathematically…. am i missing something?

    1. Repost on the afternoon thread for more responses, but a lot of people who consume a lot of protein use protein powder. I like to mix it into a smoothie, while others like to drink it as a protein shake. I aim for 90g of protein a day, and I can’t get that without protein powder!

    2. No advice, but solidarity. Same boat. I focus on eggs, greek yogurt, cottage cheese, chicken for dinner, and still end up like 50 grams short of what I “should” be eating, but protein powders kinda gross me out. I have no idea how to do it.

    3. no, most are eating more protein then they need and using supplements.

      your diet sounds fine

      Because of a medical condition I have to get more protein, so I drink high protein Fairlife milk with meals. gets me to me goal painlessly.

    4. add a Fairlife milkshake at some point, that’s an extra 30. costco/sams club.

      it matters most if you’re strength training or trying to lose a lot of weight; you need protein to build and maintain muscle. everyone loses muscle as they age so protein needs are higher for older people but i think 130+g of protein is only for special situations like strength training or trying to lose a lot of weight.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/well/eat/protein-powder-muscle-loss.html

      a lot of nutrition groups agree that the RDA for protein is not enough and the optimal amount is between .5g-.9g per pound of body weight. I’ve also heard per pound of your goal body weight.

      https://www.self.com/story/what-protein-does-in-your-body

    5. My advice? Stop following these “influencers” and speak to your doctor if you are really concerned about your diet.

      1. That’s fair. A doctor can also refer to a dietician who will have a pile of ideas for a question like this.

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