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After five years, has Giving Tuesday caught on?

The day is designed to get your mind off buying and onto donating.

A woman carries retail shopping bags during Black Friday events this year in New York City.
A woman carries retail shopping bags during Black Friday events this year in New York City.
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

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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