What is Giving Tuesday about? Eben Brown explains

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Evan Brown joins us now in sunny Florida to talk
about Giving Tuesday. Evan, good morning, welcome in. Good morning.
You know I left on the flight yesterday and the
pilot said, yeah, a little chilly. We're at forty eight
degrees here in Pittsburgh and we flew into Orlando, had
a layover and welcome to Orlando. Seventy four degrees I

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put on the plane. Yeah, it starts cheering. So all good.
So big day today, Giving Tuesday. What is this all about?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, seventy six in Miami this morning. Nice, nice Giving Tuesday.
So this started a while back as kind of a
way to capitalize and everyone spending money anyway, Right, you
went in and spent money on all the tickle me
elmos at Walmart on Black Friday, and then you bought
a bunch online on yesterday it's Cyber Monday, and maybe

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you bought them from a smaller store that's locally owned
on Saturday. But now there was the chance of hey,
as long as people are writing checks, maybe we can
get them to give us some worthy causes. So today
is known as Giving two and people are encouraged to
give some donations to causes that they find are worthwhile,

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or maybe in the cause that they've been seeing advertised
on television and just say, you know, I ought to
give them folks some money. Now would be a great
time to do it. And of course comes the reminder
that you know, when you give to legitimate charities, registered charities,
it's very often tax deductible, and so you know, we
could get that receipt, of course, and then hand that

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over to your accountant next April, and you know, maybe
knock a few bucks off your adjusted gross income and
they have a few bucks on taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Maybe there you go. So it's just basically a reminder
if you have the means to offer up ten bucks
or ten thousand, today's the day. You know, just kind
of reminds you, look, there are a lot of people
this time of the year, a lot of people all
year long, but during the holidays, you know, if you're
going to be out there spend lots of money, maybe
maybe skip spending two hundred dollars on that gift for
somebody and spend one hundred and give the other one

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hundred to somebody that could really use it, or a
charity you really love. It just doesn't seem to get it.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So the other thing you you're encouraged to do, of course,
if you can't really give money, is to give time.
You know, there are a lot of worthy houses out
there that are just in need of volunteers, especially those
local soup kitchens and food pantries and animal shelters even
you know, they need people to do things for them
to work to It could just be something simple task

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breaking down boxes, carrying things, whatever the case is, they
just need the people and time. Of course, we've always
said time is money, and how true in this situation
as well. You can't give money, but you can give time.
You can give this this help. I recommend volunteering to anyone.
It's something I did as a teenager every Sunday at
a local hospital and it was a great experience. And

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you know, any chance you get it, you get to
do something like that. I brought my own kid to
a food pantry just a couple of weeks ago to
help stock shelves, and you know, she wants to go back.
It was. It was just an interesting experience to learn
how the place operated and how you know, you can
see how the work you do can really benefit someone
who needs something. Yeah, it was really just very illustrative

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one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
And you're right, there's no shortage of organizations that are
helping folks this time of the year in every community
around town. So whatever your passion may be, whether it's animals,
or it's helping old folks, or it's helping you children
or families in need, there is an organization that's probably
already active in doing that. And like you said, Evan

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could use those volunteers, and if not, you know, contact
your local church or contact a local city council member
and just say, hey, what's the city doing or what's
the church behind this year? Maybe I can help out
and show up and do a day or two and
help with that process. Good news, Evin, Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate the updated