An annual day of charity now in its 13th year, Giving Tuesday is a global phenomenon drawing thousands of individuals and organizations worldwide to give back to their communities through donations, volunteer work, acts of kindness and other forms of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

Giving Tuesday is a “global generosity movement that is present in 110 countries around the world, and is simply a day for giving back,” said Asha Curran, CEO of GivingTuesday — the nonprofit organization now running the annual movement for charity.

According to Curran, the annual movement did not begin globally. Rather, it originated back in 2012 as more of a “social media experiment” based in the United States, an experiment that would seek to test if people would respond to the idea that a “

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