COLUMBUS, Ohio — Giving Tuesday is a day where nonprofits around the world are volunteering, running campaigns, asking for donations and spreading kindness.

What You Need To Know

  • Giving Tuesday is always the Tuesday after Thanksgiving

  • It is a day known around the world that promotes charitable giving 

  • A nonprofit called See Brilliance says Giving Tuesday helps continue their free programming

See Brilliance, a nonprofit, says Giving Tuesday is their busiest day of the year. 

“We’re grateful for whatever giving Tuesday does come around because of the giving spirit that takes place nationwide,” said Nathan Harris.

Nathan Harris is the president and CEO of See Brilliance. A nonprofit organization that provides youth and families with steam experiences rooted in Black and Latinx culture. 

“We have tons of exciting programs in which we expose students to the full gamut of learning steam, how it can be done right in your home,” said Harris.

STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Harris says Giving Tuesday has been a huge contributor to See Brilliance programs being accessible to everyone. We can work in some type of data from See Brilliance, if you have it.

“We believe in accessibility and so we seek to remove any barrier to any youth that we work with. So that’s why a lot of our programs are at no cost,” said Harris. 

One of the programs is a coding class that Harris is teaching during an after-school program at the Columbus City Preparatory School for Boys. Exposing middle school students to code using easy-to-understand materials. 

“I learn how to build stuff with science and technology,” said Columbus City Preparatory School for Boys student, Jeremiah Williams.

Giving Tuesday follows four days of intense holiday shopping, starting the season of giving. But Case Western Reserve civil society professor Rob Fischer says that doesn’t seem to stop people from being generous towards others. In fact, data shows Americans donated more than three billion dollars on this day last year, a number that’s grown every year.

“It spurs people to think not only for one day, but as they go into the holiday season and hopefully beyond that so that the impact is there’s a one day impact, but then there’s a connection that’s made between potential donors and supporters and a community of nonprofits,” said Fischer.