“GIVING TUESDAY” is a global day of charitable giving and radical generosity observed annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation as a positive counterweight to commercial shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it encourages people to donate money, volunteer time, or perform acts of kindness for nonprofits and community causes. It has grown into a year-round global movement spanning over 100 countries, raising billions of dollars each year.
This heads up is meant to help you be ready for December 1. You can generate word of mouth advertising for Friends of Madagascar Mission. Whenever a Giving Tuesday ad appears, be ready to say something like,
“I support Friends of Madagascar Mission, which does wonderful life-changing work through Madagascar Development “Thanks A Million!” Their goal is to drill or repair 300 wells in arid southwest Madagascar. I think it is a worthy cause, one that I support.”
Also, please pass on this information to family, friends and your congregation to invite them to FOMM’s “Giving Tuesday. Use your own words, or copy this post. The following is an example of the kind of Facebook posts we will be running. Please read – it will serve as more background information. When you see our posts, please share them on your timeline. Thank you!
On #GivingTuesday, December 1st, choose to send a donation to Friends of Madagascar Mission’s “Thanks a Million!” program. This is an infrastructure project to develop water assets in Madagascar. Please know that you are investing in not just wells but in sustaining human life–it will serve communities for years to come. You already know people need water to drink in order to live, but when a village gets a new well they also can utilize proper hygiene for the first time so children don’t get sick.
Why choose a water project? Two-thirds of villages in Madagascar do not have a well. No well, no clean water to drink and cook with, no bath or shower, no toilets (you get the picture). Our goal is to dig or repair 300 wells. For that we need a million dollars. That’s a daunting sum, but we are slowly getting there. We are hoping that the more people that find out about this on Giving Tuesday, we might get there quicker.
Our goal: $1 Million to dig & repair 300 wells for clean water
Our vision: Pure water for thousands & transformed communities
Partner with us so we can hear the Malagasy say, “Thanks a Million!”
At Friends of Madagascar Mission, 100% of donations reach projects directly.
ℹ️ Info and photos: www.madagascardevelopment.org
Donate to Thanks a Million! – Water for Madagascar
Donations are tax-deductible for U.S. taxpayers.