Tips for Giving Tuesday 2024 (Plus The Best Matches We’re Seeing)
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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 through this page. 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.
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're seeing on 12/3/24…
Here's Charity Navigator's article on how these “matching” opportunities might be working behind the scenes. Mentions are not endorsements of the charity.)
- Americares – 5x match
- Doctors Without Borders – 3x match
- Donors Choose (specific classroom resources requested by local teachers) – 2X match
- Greenpeace – 5x match
- Heifer International – 4x match
- Nature Conservancy – 2x match
- NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness) – 2x Match by Maybelline Challenge Fund ($200,000)
- No Kid Hungry – 2x match by Citi up to $500,000
This post was originally written by Kate Antoniades in 2023, but has been updated by Kat.
Sales of note for 7/3 (Happy 4th!):
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance, up to 60% off!
- Alexis Bittar – 20% off sitewide thru 7/5
- Alex Mill – 40-70% off some of their favorite, small batch pieces!
- Another Tomorrow – Final days of sale, new styles added
- Ann Taylor – 50% off everything + free shipping — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Athleta – Extra 20% off semi-annual sale, up to 60% off reader favorites like Brookyn and Endless pants
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love (LOVE) these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Banana Republic – Summer sale up to 60% off sale styles + extra 20% off
- Boden -Up to 60% off plus an extra 15% off – readers love these dresses, these blazers, and the brand's fun suiting
- COS – New pieces added to sale, up to 60% off
- DeMellier – Summer sale: Final Reductions (ends soon!)
- Evereve – Extra 30% off sale!
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- Hobbs – Up to 50% off, extra 20% off sale
- J.Crew – Summer sale – up to 60% off summer styles, and 40% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off all stores and sitewide, plus 60% off clearance
- Jenni Kayne – Semi-annual warehouse sale
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off (but 10% off sitewide!) (love their new weekender!)
- Lululemon – Summer sale!
- Margaux – Save up to 50% off, including archive sale
- M.M.LaFleur – Sitewide sale, up to 70% off! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new arrivals up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Ruti – 15% sitewide
- Sarah Flint – Extra 30% off select styles (we just ranked these shoes as some of our top 10 most comfortable heel brands)
- Strathberry – Up to 30% off select styles
- Stuart Weitzman – Summer styles now up to 40% off
- Talbots – 50% off your entire purchase + free shipping
- Veronica Beard – Extra 25% off sale
And some of our latest threadjacks here at Corporette (reader questions and commentary) — see more here!
Some of our latest threadjacks include:
