GivingTuesday, the global generosity movement, returns with its annual celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

The GivingTuesday Data Commons estimated that 35 million adults participated in many ways on GivingTuesday 2021 in the U.S., a 6% increase over 2020.

A celebration of all types of generosity, GivingTuesday inspired people around the world to give gifts of time, skills, goods, advocacy, and more, showing that everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.

What started in 2012 as a simple idea–a day that encouraged people to do good–has grown into a worldwide phenomenon inspiring millions of people to give back and reach out in kindness each year. GivingTuesday is now a year-round global generosity movement with a distributed network of entrepreneurial leaders who have launched national movements in 80 countries and more than 300 community campaign across the U.S. alone. 

At the grassroots level, people and organizations participate in GivingTuesday in every single country in the world. Greece, Nepal, Peru, South Sudan, and Zambia joined as official GivingTuesday country movements in 2021.