{"id":461,"date":"2012-11-30T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-11-30T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:56:02","slug":"givingtuesday-a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/givingtuesday-a-new-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"#GivingTuesday a New Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"#GivingTuesday\" src=\"http:\/\/givingtuesday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GT_heart-250web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>The Tuesday after Thanksgiving may become a new tradition for giving back.<\/p>\n<p>#GivingTuesday is being billed as &#8220;<em>the giving season\u2019s opening day<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 I love that concept.<\/p>\n<p>GivingTuesday.org is attempting to start an annual movement. On Tuesday November 27, 2012 the group asked &#8220;<em>charities, families, businesses and individuals to come together to transform the way people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This a wonderful idea.\u00a0\u00a0They encourage you to &#8220;<em>tell\u00a0everyone you can about what you are doing and why it matters. Join a national celebration of our great tradition of generosity&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle for Philanthropy reports that Network for Good, a processor of online gifts, reported a spike in giving this Tuesday. The total number of donations more than doubled, to 113 percent, on #GivingTuesday versus the Tuesday after Thanksgiving 2011. The amount collected Tuesday was also 55 percent more than the amount of donations collected on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that the movement is growing.\u00a0 Looking forward to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuesday after Thanksgiving may become a new tradition for giving back. #GivingTuesday is being billed as &#8220;the giving season\u2019s opening day&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 I love that concept. GivingTuesday.org is attempting to start an annual movement. On Tuesday November 27, 2012 the group asked &#8220;charities, families, businesses and individuals to come together to transform the way people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[14,15,16],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-home","tag-giving","tag-holiday","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youraok.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}