Your Mark On The World
#159: #GivingTuesday: A Shopping Day For Good
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:12:10
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November 25, 2014 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1vGVyrP. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. “Black Friday,” a label for the Friday following Thanksgiving, led to the moniker “Cyber Monday” for the peak on-line shopping day on the following Monday. In 2012, the next day of the calendar got a new name: Giving Tuesday (almost universally written as #GivingTuesday, complete with hashtag, reflecting its made for social media origins). This year, #GivingTuesday falls on December 2. President and CEO of the UN Foundation, Kathy Calvin, said, “UN Foundation is proud to be a founding partner of #GivingTuesday, which was launched as an alternative to the widely-recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, to kick off the holiday giving season. In just three years, it has become one of the largest initiatives dedicated to giving back.” “#GivingTuesday