Reston Real Estate: Celebrate Giving Tuesday Locally

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This is a sponsored post by Eve Thompson of Reston Real Estate.

I love Thanksgiving. Spending time with my family always fills with me with joy. Then the immediate consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday kind of sully that good feeling.

Not that I don’t love a good deal, but wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy the gratitude and good will of Thanksgiving a little longer? Now that those two shopping days are behind us, we can get back into the holiday spirit with #GivingTuesday.

Giving Tuesday — which is today, Dec. 2 — is a global day dedicated to giving back. Charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

How can you participate? Just find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to come together to give something more. Below is a list of some of the more than worthy organizations in Reston and Fairfax County. Choose the ones you want to support, then tell everyone about how you are giving — this is where that hashtag thing really works. Use #GivingTuesday.

Here are some of my favorite places to give:

  • Cornerstones: Cornerstones promotes self-sufficiency by providing support and advocacy for those in need of food, shelter, affordable housing, quality childcare, and other human services.
  • Let’s Give Back: Let’s Give Back provides GiveBackPacks™ that contain items people may need when their child is admitted to the pediatric ICU. Receiving a GiveBackPack is comforting and helpful to the family in need.
  • Friends of the Fairfax County Animal Shelter: More than 5,000 animals, including cats, dogs, small mammals, reptiles and livestock, come to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter each year. The shelter opens its doors — and its heart — to care for each and every animal. But, the shelter can’t do it alone. Through donor and volunteer support, the Friends of the Fairfax County Animal Shelter provides medical care, food, supplies and so much more to help the shelter care for these loving animals.
  • Friends of Reston: Friends of Reston supports Reston Association in performing charitable, educational and scientific projects. In addition to raising $1.5M to help fund the Nature House, the organization has an RA Camp Scholarship Program and has organized the Re-energize Reston challenge with Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP).

These are just four of my favorites, but there are hundreds of charities in the area that could use your help. The Great Nonprofits website also lists some lesser-known charities in the area.

Happy holidays!

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