Lowcountry Giving Day is Tuesday, Sept. 19. It’s a community-wide event to allow people to support local nonprofits on a day of giving.
It’s also an event at RiverDogs Stadium from 3 p.m. to 9 pm. The event is expected to be the largest local gathering of nonprofits in the history of Charleston, according to this website. Learn more on how you can make a difference locally.
On the calendar for the week of April 25: Art in the Barn, Law Day Community Run, free skin cancer screening, Lowcountry Giving Day, more.
Staff reports | It’s only two weeks until Lowcountry Giving Day, the annual day of celebration and chance for people to give to more than 350 area nonprofits.
The community-wide event is scheduled for May 2, but you can already schedule a donation to one or more charities of your choice. Click here to schedule a donation.
By George C. Stevens | The main reason to give to your favorite charity tomorrow is that they do good work, needed work, work that improves society. Giving tomorrow, May 5, is especially beneficial as dozens of good citizens have pooled their funds and given Coastal Community Foundation $3 million to dole out based on your choices. Those incentivizing donors are letting you decide where their money goes. Who doesn’t want to give like a millionaire, even if only for a single day?
Setting aside those obvious reasons, the not-so-obvious ones reveal something deeply good about America.
In America, we encourage re-invention, innovation and change. When teaching in Europe several years ago, I encouraged my students to challenge the status quo and ask for change. They looked at me like I was Paul Revere. It was a deeply Americanizing experience.
Dozens of charities around town are looking forward to Lowcountry Giving Day on May 5, a day in which nonprofits in local communities join to try to raise as much money as possible in 24 hours as part of a national challenge across the country.
Last year, 7,166 people gave more than $4 million to 93 participating nonprofits in a 24-hour period, according to the Coastal Community Foundation, which coordinates and host the event. This year, more than 180 nonprofit organizations are participating.
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