December 2. That’s the date this year for Giving Tuesday, a local and national effort to promote giving to charity and giving back to one’s community during the holiday season.
On Giving Tuesday, residents are encouraged to donate to charity following the shopping frenzies of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget Shop Small Saturday in between.
Your Giving Tuesday gifts to the Community Foundation of Jackson County can help make a difference in perpetuity through the earnings of endowed funds that benefit people and programs throughout Jackson County, said Dan Davis Pesident of CFJC.
That could include giving to any of the local nonprofit agency funds administered at the Foundation that benefit the United Way of Jackson County, Boys & Girls Club of Seymour, Girls Inc. of Jackson County, Childcare Network, Turning Point Domestic Violence Services, Community Provisions of Jackson County, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Jackson County History Center, Jackson County Public Library, the Seymour Museum Center, Developmental Services Inc. and others.
You may also donate to any of the Foundation’s existing scholarship funds, unrestricted funds, designated funds and field of interest funds.
Our unrestricted funds, what we call our community funds, help finance grants through our annual Fall Grant cycle. Last month, the Foundation’s Board of Directors approved 24 grants totaling $170,331. That’s a record high. As always, however, some grant requests could not be funded – requests always total more than the grant dollars we have available, Davis said.