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Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal was just the beginning of marketing pitches to spend your money.
There’s Black Friday, which starts in some places right after the turkey. Small Businesses Saturday hopes to spread the love to your mom and pop store.
Cyber Monday wants to give you a deal if you missed the previous three days.
And, then there’s Giving Tuesday.
Founded in 2012, Giving Tuesday reminds people that there are money worthy organizations to donate to. Many Fresno and Clovis groups are asking for your philanthropy. Here is a small sample:
The Clovis Botanical Garden, located in Dry Creek Park in Clovis (Clovis and Alluvial avenues), is a 3-acre “water-wise demonstration garden to promote water conservation in the California Central Valley landscape through excellent gardens using drought-tolerant plants, exhibits, and programs that educate the public,” board member Andrea Reed said.
The garden is open five days a week and free to the public. They also are many programs for kids for a small charge.
“Donations are critical to our existence as it is sustained by the community through memberships, donations, grants and maintained by dedicated volunteers,” Redd said.
This is the second year that the garden is participating in Giving Tuesday. Donations are used to continue the garden’s development and maintenance.
To donate, visit the website or mail to:
Clovis Botanical Garden
1865 Herndon Ave, Suite K, Box 330
Clovis, CA 93611
Clovis Botanical Garden is part of the 2018 Giving Tuesday campaign. (GV Wire File Photo)
November is National Adoption Month and Central California Adoption Services — Infant of Prague is hoping you think of them on Giving Tuesday.
“We counsel women facing unintended pregnancy in all of their options, so they can choose a path that allows them to move forward with confidence. We also prepare families to welcome children to their families through adoption,” executive director Sylvia Coyle said.
This is the first time Infant of Prague is participating in Giving Tuesday.
“Donations on Giving Tuesday will help us to implement additional counseling and therapy programs as well as continue outreach to women who may benefit from our counseling services. A donation to our agency is a donation to benefit the health and well being of our families and community,” Coyle said.
To donate, visit their website or mail to:
2350 W. Shaw Ave., Suite 142
Fresno, CA 93711
Infant of Prague is a full service, nonprofit, secular, licensed adoption agency. (Photo/Infant of Prague Central California Website)
Who will take care of us when we get older? In Fresno, the Valley Caregiver Resource Center knows where to find the answers.
In Fresno for 30 years, VCRC provides services and programs for seniors and their families.
“There are thousands of our families, friends, and neighbors who do need help. We are all tasked with being the voice of this population that often cannot advocate for itself,” executive director Michelle DiBuduo said.
This is VCRC’s second year participating in Giving Tuesday.
“We believe it will be a valuable tool in educating our community on the needs of our seniors and family caregivers,” DiBuduo said. “Our goal is to reduce the fear, isolation, and neglect our seniors experience at so many various levels. In order to do this, we want to continue raising more funds to put back into improving the lives of our seniors so they can experience a quality of life in their later years.”
To donate, visit their website or call 559-224-9154.
Where are the leaders of tomorrow supposed to learn?
The Maddy Institute at Fresno State’s goal is to improve civil discourse and provoke spiriting public policy decisions based on facts.
The institute does so by providing internships with local representatives in Sacramento and Washington, hosting weekly media programs that air locally on ABC30 and KMJ radio, and holding events with the state’s political movers and shakers.
Judge Lawrence O’Neill (left) speaks with Maddy Institute’s Mark Keppler at a luncheon on Oct. 5, 2018. (GV Wire Photo/David Taub)
Earlier this month, for example, Bureau of Cannabis Control director Lori Ajax talked about regulating cannabis in the state.
The institute is named after Ken Maddy, a long-time legislator in Sacramento representing the Valley.
To donate, visit the website or mail to:
Maddy Institute
4910 N. Chestnut Ave., office 43
Fresno, CA 93726
For a list of more groups participating in Giving Tuesday, visit here.
David Taub has spent most of his career in journalism behind the scenes working as a TV assignment editor and radio producer. For more than a decade, he has worked in the Fresno market with such stops at KSEE-24, KMJ and Power Talk 96.7. Taub also worked the production and support side of some of TV sports biggest events including the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and NASCAR to name a few. Taub graduated from the University of Michigan with dual degrees in communications and political science. You can contact David at 559-492-4037 or at Send an Email
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