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• GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past 14 years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity year-round.
• GivingTuesday inspires generosity worldwide through a distributed network of leaders. There are official GivingTuesday national movements in over 110 countries, led by a global network of passionate, entrepreneurial leaders. At a grassroots level, people and organizations participate in GivingTuesday in every single country in the world.
• GivingTuesday creates global impact driven by local action. In the U.S. alone, 400 community campaigns rally thousands of nonprofits, foundations, grassroots organizations, small businesses, and generous individuals to give back. Through #GivingTuesdaySpark, youth are leading change and inspiring action around the world.
• GivingTuesday is driving a net increase in giving. The movement continues to grow in year-over-year donation volume, reach and impact. In 2025, an estimated $4 Billion were donated in twenty-four hours in the U.S. alone, a 13% increase over the prior year. On December 2nd, 2025 38.1 million people participated by offering gifts of time, voice, skills, goods, and money, as well as countless acts of kindness inspired by the movement.
• GivingTuesday is a global hub for data, learning, and ultimately, innovation around generosity. The GivingTuesday Data Commons works with partners across sectors and borders to understand the drivers and impacts of generosity, explore giving behaviors and patterns, and use data to inspire more giving around the world. With over 300 contributing partners and 50 global data labs, the initiative is the largest philanthropic data collaboration ever built.
• GivingTuesday inspires collective action and generosity all year round–and in times of crisis.
• People can show their generosity in a variety of ways during GivingTuesday. Whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or finding virtual volunteer opportunities with their favorite causes—everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.

Unlocking the Power of Generosity: Priyanka Dutt on Community-Driven Philanthropy in India (Alliance Magazine, March 27, 2025) 

Americans Gave $4B on GivingTuesday 2025 as Donations and Volunteering Gain Big over Last Year (Associated Press, December 3, 2025)

Military Spouses Turn GivingTuesday into Global Mission of Kindness (Fox & Friends First, December 2, 2025)

Giving Campaigns in Every Community? GivingTuesday’s Big New Idea (Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 30, 2025) 

TIME100 Philanthropy 2025: Titans (TIME, March 2025)

Melinda French Gates and Asha Curran Discuss GivingTuesday (Good Morning America, December 3, 2024)

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement (TED Talks, November 2023)

The Case for Effusive Altruism: A New Way To Think About Giving (Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2023)

A conversation on innovations in philanthropy (Axios, November 30, 2021)

GivingTues­day Spark lets youth lead outreach (Toronto Star, November 30, 2021)

GivingTuesday CEO talks about campaign, younger donors (Associated Press, November 29, 2021)

We Must Embrace Radical Generosity With or Without COVID (Newsweek, March 11, 2021)

Americans give to charity like never before amid pandemic (Reuters, December 24, 2020)

Generosity, an ‘antidote’ to fear, division’: How to help those in need on Giving Tuesday (USA Today, December 1, 2020)

Being kind to one another doesn’t have to be merely a cliche (IQads, November 25, 2020)

As GivingTuesday Nears, It’s Time to Drop the Donor-Fatigue Myth (Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 16, 2020)

Rethinking “Radical”: Change, Generosity, Imagination (Philanthropy in Focus, September 30, 2020)