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After five years, has Giving Tuesday caught on?

Marielle Segarra Nov 29, 2016
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A woman carries retail shopping bags during Black Friday events this year in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

After five years, has Giving Tuesday caught on?

Marielle Segarra Nov 29, 2016
A woman carries retail shopping bags during Black Friday events this year in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
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For the past few days, millions of consumers have been in spending overdrive.  Storming stores on Black Friday. Working the web on Cyber Monday. And nonprofits that do good works like feeding the homeless and exposing corruption have a message for all of us: don’t stop now.  

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