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A different organisation of musicians, actors, athletes, artists and a nation?s tip artistic talents are fasten a #GivingTuesday transformation to assistance enthuse a initial inhabitant day dedicated to giving coinciding with a Holiday season. Instead of focusing only on sales and shopping, these celebrities are ancillary some of a many innovative charities, proffer organizations, tellurian campaigns and village groups as they ?get out a give? this Nov 27. With some-more than 1,000 partner organizations in all 50 states, there are many ways these organisation and women are building recognition and support for issues trimming from Hurricane Sandy service to children?s preparation to women?s health to assist for veterans?and innumerable causes in between. A few examples of some of a tip stars who are ancillary their favorite charities include:

????? ????Charlize Theron and a Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) are teaming adult with a Center for Living Peace to lift supports for CTAOP?s idea to keep African girl protected from HIV. Every concession done to CTAOP on #GivingTuesday will be matched by a Center for Living Peace (up to $10,000).

????? ????Grammy Award winning band, Linkin Park, and Music for Relief are premiering a new video cut to one of their strain to assistance tell a story of appetite misery and are seeking their fans to be a partial of a solution. The rope is seeking fans to share a video with friends and to make a concession as a singular holiday present to friends and family this deteriorate to yield purify appetite solutions for people who have no entrance to electricity.

????? ????Marie Osmond, co-founder of Children?s Miracle Network Hospitals, is a face of a charity?s new holiday fundraising program: GiveMiracles.org. Marie will be articulate adult #GivingTuesday during a array of reliable media interviews compelling a Donny and Marie Christmas Show on Monday, Nov 26. She?ll explain how for as small as $10 or as many as $12 million, #GivingTuesday do-gooders can select a ideal pediatric present for their internal Children?s Miracle Network Hospital on GiveMiracles.org.

????? ????Steve Nash, Los Angeles Lakers indicate ensure is propelling fans and friends of a Steve Nash Foundation, that helps children to entrance vicious health and preparation resources, to support a United Nations Foundation?s Nothing But Nets debate this #GivingTuesday.

????? ????Victoria Justice will announce a GirlRaiser plea for Girl Up on Social Media and around a Huffington Post Impact blog that will run on Nov 21. This GirlRaiser will have a idea of lifting $20,000 for Girl Up in sequence to yield girls abroad with a collection they need to go to school, be healthy, stay safe, and turn a leader. To serve incentivize participation, a new singular and song video ?Girl Up,? will be expelled when a idea is met.

????? ????Susan Sarandon will be featured by MSN on a Causes page on Nov. 27, #GivingTuesday, as partial of her support for Heifer International. The QA with a Academy Award-winning singer delves into her reasons for giving to Heifer International, as good as her possess gift-giving traditions. MSN Causes enables easy ways to give and shares moving stories about people who have altered a universe by their generosity.

????? ????Penelope Cruz and La Tienda?s Campaign For Spain are lifting many indispensable supports for a Federation of Spanish Food Banks. The classification is seeking everybody to be a partial of #GivingTuesday and remember those in need.

????? ????Oxfam America will be enlisting a assistance of a few pivotal luminary ambassadors to foster #GivingTuesday and Oxfam?s gift-giving program, Oxfam Unwrapped. Actors Kristin Davis, Djimon Hounsou, and Minnie Driver, among others, will be swelling a word about #GivingTuesday by pity a summary of ?You are what we give.?

????? ????Entertainment hulk WWE, that recently shaped an fondness with Nothing But Nets to smackdown malaria in Africa, will be tweeting about #GivingTuesday opposite a Twitter channels. WWE?s amicable media platforms strech some-more than 115 million fans and supporters worldwide.

????? ????Ethan Zohn, leader of CBS?s Survivor: Africa and co-host of ABC?s Everyday Health will be ancillary a #GivingTuesday debate of Grassroot Soccer, a classification he helped co-found. Grassroot Soccer uses a energy of soccer, a world?s many renouned sport, to educate, inspire, and muster immature people and communities opposite HIV and AIDS. Zohn helped found a classification in 2002 after personification veteran soccer in Zimbabwe and saying firsthand a harmful effects of a disease. For #GivingTuesday, Zohn will be regulating a energy of amicable media to foster a one-day special concession shell on interest of a organization.

????? ????Kevin Bacon, Ryan Reynolds, Cee Lo Green, Danny DeVito, and other celebrities are teaming adult to make a Celebrity Bookends famous. A pointless set of bookends are roving a universe to accommodate famous people and do famous things in an try to give them adequate luminary standing to assistance advantage schoolchildren in Guatemala. Along with a recognition that luminary icons can hoard for their cause, these Celebrity Bookends and their organisation will try to monetize their someday luminary standing and be sole for one million dollars for #GivingTuesday partner Cooperative for Education.

????? ????Toni Collette partnered with Concern Worldwide U.S. in a debate to make craving history. The campaign, Concern for Hunger, asks people to support Concern?s work to yield and forestall gauntness in a world?s lowest countries. You can watch Toni Collette?s PSA opposite craving here. Toni Collette has contributed an disdainful blog on a quarrel opposite craving and a call to transformation for #GivingTuesday and a holiday deteriorate to a Huffington Post. It competence also be value observant that Toni Collette is partial of a all-star expel of Hitchcock, that is set to recover on Nov 23.

????? ????Mike Farrell, a actor and longtime tellurian rights activist, is ancillary Just Detention International?s Words of Hope holiday campaign, that will launch on #GivingTuesday. Now in a third year, Words of Hope invites people to strech out directly to some of a many marginalized and lost people in a society: survivors of restrained rape. Mike Farrell will himself send a label to a survivor behind bars and will lend his name and voice to enthuse others to do so as well.

????? ????Andres Levin, American/Venezuelan Grammy Winner, composer, writer and philanthropist, joins Arcangeles as an Ambassador for a means swelling a word on lenient exposed communities, generally those vital with a disability. Levin, along with his Non Profit ?Music Has No Enemies?, will chaperon a party attention toward a widespread graduation of hospitality and a significance of giving to communities vital in conditions of exclusion.

????? ????Award-winning actor of theatre and shade Joe Mantegna has been a longtime disciple for U.S servicemen and women, veterans and his Italian heritage. This is one reason he has upheld a good work of a Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF) for many years. The SIF raises income for informative refuge programs and veteran?s/wounded soldier organizations, among other causes. Active year-round lending support to causes that are dear to him, Joe will chatter for a Sons of Italy Foundation on #GivingTuesday, enlivening free giving among his many followers.

For a finish list of #GivingTuesday partners, greatfully revisit http://www.givingtuesday.org.

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How #GivingTuesday was Born: Seeing an event to channel a inexhaustible suggestion of a holiday deteriorate to enthuse transformation around free giving, a organisation of friends, partners and hospitality experts, led by a 92nd Street Y, came together to find ways to foster and applaud a good American tradition of giving. Thought leaders in philanthropy, amicable media and grassroots organizing assimilated with 92nd Street Y to try what is operative in complicated hospitality and how to enhance these innovations via a munificent sector. The judgment gained steam, and by bringing together a organisation of first partners?including a United Nations Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever, a Case Foundation, United Way and VentureThree Capital?a inhabitant array of discussions helped surprise a #GivingTuesday proceed and built a movement. Each week over a Summer and Fall of 2012, new organizations assimilated a transformation and offering artistic ways people could welcome #GivingTuesday and combine in giving efforts to emanate some-more suggestive results.

A organisation of influencers have been advising #GivingTuesday organizers to plead a innovative ways that people are coming giving during severe mercantile times, along with how Americans can give smarter and use new media to enthuse certain change in their communities. Currently, some-more than 1,000 corporate and nonprofit organizations have committed to attend in a initiative. #GivingTuesday is permitted by Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, Dorothy A. Johnson Center on Philanthropy, Giving Institute, Giving USA Foundation and InterAction. Charity Navigator and GuideStar are portion as Charity Advisors. VolunteerMatch is a proffer confidant to #GivingTuesday.????

About #GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday is a transformation to applaud giving and yield incentives to give. It will start with a inhabitant day of giving on Nov 27, 2012. This first-of-its-kind bid harnesses a common energy of a singular mix of partners?charities, families, businesses and individuals?to renovate how people consider about, speak about and attend in a giving season.

#GivingTuesday is moving people to take collaborative transformation to urge their internal communities, to give behind in better, smarter ways to a charities and causes they applaud and to assistance emanate a improved world. #GivingTuesday is harnessing a energy of amicable media to emanate a inhabitant impulse around a holidays that is dedicated to giving, identical to a approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday have turn days that are synonymous with holiday shopping.

A organisation of famous experts and influencers, primarily convened by leaders of 92nd Street Y and upheld by a core organisation of first partners, are spearheading this effort. Founding partners embody United Nations Foundation, Case Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and VentureThree Capital. Leaders in philanthropy, amicable media, innovative giving, grassroots organizing, selling and communications are providing warn and resources to assistance build this movement.

Founding Partners
92nd Street Y
(RED)
American Red Cross
Benevolent
Blackbaud
Bob Woodruff Foundation
Bridgespan
Care2
Causes
Charity Miles
charity: water
City of Hope
Clear Channel Outdoor
Conservation International
Crowdrise
Darden Restaurants
Discover
DoGoodBuyUs
DonorsChoose
DoSomething.org
Financial Times
Games for Change
GlobalGiving
Groupon
The Huffington Post
IAVA
JPMorgan Chase
JCPenney
Kiva
Mashable
Microsoft
Pencils of Promise
Plant a Fish
Posterscope
PSI
Samasource
Simon Malls
Skype
Sony
The Case Foundation
The Salvation Army
United Nations Foundation
United Way
Unilever
VENTURE3Philanthropy

Endorsers
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Dorothy A. Johnson Center on Philanthropy
Giving Institute
Giving USA Foundation
InterAction
Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation

Charity Advisors
Charity Navigator
GiveWell
GuideStar

Volunteer Advisors
VolunteerMatch

To learn some-more about #GivingTuesday participants and activities or to join a jubilee of giving, greatfully visit:

Website: http://www.givingtuesday.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GivingTuesday
Twitter: twitter.com/GivingTues

Amy Freeland, Fenton, 303-882-6464, afreeland(at)fenton(dot)com

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