Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation. Together, they launched a global movement that has engaged over 30,000 organizations worldwide. Giving Tuesday connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving.
Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.
On November 28, the Daviess County Community Foundation will host their second annual Giving Tuesday event focused on building permanent endowment funds for their charitable partners. Organizations with permanent endowment funds held at the Foundation have been invited to join in the event. The list of these organizations is below.
The Community Foundation is making $25,000 available to match new gifts to grow the organizations’ endowment funds. Gifts on Giving Tuesday can make a double difference in growing permanent endowment funds for many local organizations.
To qualify for the matching dollars, gifts must be received on November 28, 2017. Gifts may be made online at CommunityFoundationAlliance.org/Daviess or at the office location, 320 East Main Street in Washington from 8:30 to 4 pm.
Local organizations with funds at the Foundation include:
- Agriinstitute Institute
- Barn Youth Center in Odon
- Barr Reeve Scholarship Foundation
- Camp Illiana
- Catholic Education Endowment
- Christ United Methodist Church Youth Group
- Compassionate Friends Memorial at Eastside Park
- Daviess Community Hospital Foundation
- Daviess County Family YMCA
- Daviess County Historical Society Museum
- Daviess County Right to Life
- Elnora/Elmore Township Volunteer Fire Department
- FFA of North Daviess Schools
- First Baptist Church Youth Group
- Four Rivers Rehabilitation Resources
- Friends for Animals Daviess County
- Habitat for Humanity Daviess County
- Ketcham Memorial
- Leadership Daviess County
- North Daviess Schools Scholarship Program
- Parkview Village Christian Care
- Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
- Pregnancy Care Center
- Psi Iota Xi Sorority – Washington (Charitable Work)
- Red Cross Services in Daviess County
- Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Daviess County
- Southwest Indiana Power House
- St John Cemetery (Loogootee)
- St Martin and St Rose Cemeteries (Loogootee)
- United Way of Daviess County
- Washington Carnegie Library
- Washington Catholic Schools
- Washington Community Schools Foundation
- Washington Community Schools Foundation Athletic Department
- Washington Community Schools Foundation College Scholarship
- Washington Little League
- Washington Parks and Recreation
- Washington Soccer Federation
To qualify for the matching dollars, gifts must be received on November 28, 2017. Gifts may be made online at CommunityFoundationAlliance.org/Daviess or at the office location, 320 East Main Street in Washington from 8:30 to 4 pm.
