{"id":72312,"date":"2025-12-02T02:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72312\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:15:21","slug":"central-texans-invited-to-support-local-nonprofits-on-giving-tuesday-dec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72312\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texans invited to support local nonprofits on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCentral Texas residents can support their favorite local nonprofits by participating in Giving Tuesday on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>How it works<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givingtuesday.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giving Tuesday<\/a> is celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and is focused on showing radical generosity. People are encouraged to engage with, volunteer or donate to a local cause they care about.<\/p>\n<p>For the ninth consecutive year, <a href=\"https:\/\/ilivehereigivehere.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Live Here I Give Here<\/a> will accept donations on Giving Tuesday for various nonprofits in the Central Texas area through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amplifyatx.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amplify ATX website<\/a>. The online platform allows Central Texans to explore giving opportunities, learn about their impact and donate to organizations where they live.<\/p>\n<p>Funds may be directed to a specific nonprofit or donated to the Amplify Fund, which helps support all participating nonprofits in Austin and Central Texas, according to I Live Here I Give Here.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>Giving Tuesday was started by a New York-area nonprofit in 2012 and has since spread to over 150 countries, with 34 million people participating globally last year, according to I Live Here I Give Here.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Giving Tuesday generated more than $250,000 in donations for over 700 Central Texas nonprofits through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amplifyatx.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AmplifyATX.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I Live Here I Give Here aims to connect donors and volunteers to different local causes through community-wide events and year-round programming. The nonprofit launched Amplify Austin Day in 2013\u2014a 24-hour day of giving in Central Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Texas residents can support their favorite local nonprofits by participating in Giving Tuesday on Dec. 2. How&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36165,35663,132,36167,134,133,18262,36164,36169,30185,36166,36168,36171,36170],"class_list":{"0":"post-72312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-amplify-atx","9":"tag-amplify-fund","10":"tag-austin","11":"tag-austin-charities","12":"tag-austin-headlines","13":"tag-austin-news","14":"tag-austin-nonprofits","15":"tag-central-texas-nonprofits","16":"tag-community-donations","17":"tag-giving-tuesday","18":"tag-i-live-here-i-give-here","19":"tag-local-giving","20":"tag-nonprofits-in-austin","21":"tag-volunteer-opportunities-central-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}