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Five Powerful Ways to Give Back without Spending a Dime

Did you donate on Giving Tuesday? On any day you can, without spending a dime. Read my five suggestions and see if you agree.

Giving Back on Tuesday, November 27, was perfectly timed just a few days after Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. On this holiday we talk about being grateful, we share whom we are thankful for, and we pledge to appreciate family members and stay in touch. $2.5 million dollars was given in more than 150 countries last year for Day of Giving Tuesday. That's remarkable, but we can all give back in 2018, or on any day, without spending a dime.

Donations matter, but without spending hundreds of dollars, and there are five suggestions that can count too.

Take two minutes, read them and see if you agree with me.

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