Giving Tuesday is December 2, 2025!

If you're looking for Giving Tuesday, you're in the right place. On December 2nd, more than 120 organizations across northeast Michigan will be featured here as a one-stop place to support your favorite causes. Featured nonprofits are those that hold a fund at the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan, or within any of our Affiliate Foundations, that benefits their mission and their work.

Our Giving Tuesday page will be open for giving November 25 - December 9 to celebrate the giving season around a time of big sales and online shopping.

You can also give to these organizations' funds any time of the year. Simply search for the organization name using the links below:

Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan (CFNEM)

For organizations in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency, and Presque Isle Counties

Iosco County Community Foundation (ICCF)

For organizations in Iosco County

North Central Michigan Community Foundation (NCMCF)

For organizations in Crawford, Ogemaw, and Oscoda Counties

Straits Area Community Foundation (SACF)

For organizations in Cheboygan County and Mackinaw City

Our Giving Tuesday History

Giving Tuesday - always the Tuesday following Thanksgiving - is a global movement meant to inspire giving, volunteerism, and acts of kindness. Following the popular shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday offers an opportunity for individuals to give back in meaningful ways.

For ten years, beginning in 2015, the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan and its affiliate foundations hosted Giving Tuesday Northeast Michigan to help local nonprofits participate in the campaign at no cost. Over that decade, more than $2.1 million was raised in support of 162 nonprofits throughout our service area. Grant, the Giving Tuesday Golden Goose, was introduced in 2017 as a way to inspire friendly competition among the participating organizations, becoming a beloved mascot of the Giving Tuesday Northeast Michigan campaign.

In 2024, CFNEM celebrated its 50th anniversary, honoring five decades of giving, granting, and growing. During their 50th year, CFNEM staff and its Board of Trustees developed and adopted a new, four-year strategic plan that focuses on the Foundation's asset development, proactive grantmaking, and strengthening nonprofit partnerships. To be able to focus on the important work laid out in that new plan, the Community Foundation has concluded its role as host of the Giving Tuesday Northeast Michigan campaign.

Beginning in 2025, nonprofit organizations that partner with the Community Foundation through a fund established on their behalf will be featured on a special Giving Tuesday page that will be open for the two weeks book-ending Giving Tuesday each year. These funds are also available to support all year long through the Foundation.

Celebrating Ten Years of Giving Tuesday Northeast Michigan

Giving Tuesday Golden Goose Winners

2024 - Friends of Hubbard Lake Center
2023 - Boys and Girls Club of Alpena
2022 - Besser Museum of Northeast Michigan
2021 - Alpena Community College Foundation
2020 - Boys and Girls Club of Alpena
2019 - Alpena County Animal Facility (fka Second Chance Animal Shelter)
2018 - Thunder Bay Theatre
2017 - CFNEM's Northeast Michigan Women's Giving Circle