GivingTuesday: 5 Metro Detroit Nonprofits That Could Use Your Help

METRO DETROIT — There’s no single way to show generosity on GivingTuesday, which falls on Tuesday, Nov. 28, but several nonprofits in metro Detroit are counting on end-of-the-year donations and support.

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday all focus on consumerism, while the idea behind GivingTuesday is to galvanize fundraising, rally volunteers and add momentum to their causes.

Since 2012, nonprofits, community and grassroots groups, and mutual aid networks worldwide have used GivingTuesday to galvanize fundraising, rally volunteers and add momentum to their causes, according to the nonprofit of the same name behind the movement.

Local nonprofits are having another tough year. The donor pool shrunk by 3.8 percent and the total amount raised through philanthropy was down 0.7 percent, according to a first-quarter 2023 fundraising report.

GivingTuesday is locally led in more than 240 U.S. communities, networks and coalitions. GivingTuesday communities in the metro Detroit area include Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit Black Food Security, Focus: HOPE.

Here are five nonprofits in the metro Detroit area that depend on community support (donations should be made directly to each of the nonprofits below):

• Capuchin Soup Kitchen: The Capuchin Soup Kitchen serves Metro Detroit by providing food, clothing, and human development programs to the people of our community.
• Detroit Black Food Security: The organization was founded to ensure that Detroit’s African American population participated in the food movement.
• Focus: HOPE: Focus: HOPE address the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education and racial divisiveness through its three primary programs.
• JARC: JARC is a nonprofit organization based in Bloomfield Hills that serves individuals with developmental disabilities in 45 locations, including 24-hour care in group homes, independent living settings for adults and respite services for children, teens and young adults.
• Piast Institute: The Institute is a national research center devoted to Polish and Polish American affairs. The Institute develops conferences, seminars, data publications, public programs, lectures, and exhibits that provide accurate information about Poland, Poles, and Polish Americans. It also has a special interest in the role of Ethnicity in American Life.

The GivingTuesday movement encourages “radical generosity,” the concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering, according to the movement’s website.

GivingTuesday was created in New York City in 2012 with a simple goal: to encourage people to do good. Over the past nine years, the idea has grown into the global movement it is today.