There is more to the holiday season than searching for the best deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
SANTA ROSA BEACH � There is more to the holiday season than searching for the best deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Nineteen local nonprofit groups are teaming up to promote Giving Tuesday, an effort to harness the collective power of charities, families, businesses and individuals to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.
Giving Tuesday will be Dec. 3, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It will use social media to create a national campaign around the holidays dedicated to giving.
Shelter House and Food For Thought learned about Giving Tuesday and wanted to be part of the movement. The leaders of those organizations reached out to other non-profits to join.
The Boys and Girls Club of the Emerald Coast (bgcec.com); the Emerald Coast Children�s Advocacy Center; Children�s Volunteer Health Network (cvhnkids.org); Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (culturalartsalliance.com); Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (dcwaf.org); Emerald Coast Autism Center (ecautismcenter.org); Family Life Ministries (familylife-sozo.org); Food For Thought Outreach (foodforthoughtfl.org); Habitat for Humanity of Walton County (waltoncountyhabitat.org); Horizons (horizonsfwb.com); Judge Ben Gordon Visitation Center (familyvisitationcenters.org); Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation (mattiekellyartsfoundation.org); Mental Health Association (mhaow.org); Opportunity Place (okaloosawaltonhomeless.org); Shelter House (shelterhousenwfl.org); Taylor Haugen Foundation (taylorhaugen.org); White-Wilson (white-wilson.com) and Youth Village (nelliesyouthvillage.org).
To find out what each nonprofit will be doing, visit www.givingtuesdaynwf.org or each nonprofit�s website.