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Giving Tuesday takes place the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and is a day to give back to the community following the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker explains how you can get involved.

Celebrity chef David Chang, host of the Netflix series “Ugly Delicious” and founder of the Momofuku restaurant group, just became the first celebrity to take home the $1 million prize for charity on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”

Thousands of people have jammed roads for miles in Atlanta to try to get boxes of food and gift cards donated by entertainer Tyler Perry

The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a national coin shortage and is expected to put a major dent in the charity’s main fundraiser.

Comedian John Oliver has upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to rename its sewage treatment plant after him.

Four California high school students worked together to create the Be the Change Coloring Co., a small business that makes coronavirus coloring books to help children understand the virus. The students have already raised over $12,000 for Black Lives Matter, the CDC and other organizations.

A former sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing $50,000 from a children’s charity and paying kickbacks to lure patients into a drug treatment center he ran in West Palm Beach

How do you really know your donations are going to make a difference? Here are some ways to make sure your money is going toward a good cause. 

The head of a Chicago charity that has been awarded $200,000 by the NFL’s new social activism initiative is apologizing for her social media posts from 2016 that show her cutting the dreadlocks of two teen boys.

A New Jersey couple bought 247 pairs of shoes at a closing Payless store and donated them to women and children in need.

The Sanders Institute, a think tank founded by the Democratic presidential contender’s wife and stepson, is shutting down, at least for now, hoping to quash criticism that the nonprofit has blurred the lines between family, fundraising and campaigning. Jane Sanders said in an interview that the Vermont-based institute has stopped accepting donations and plans to suspend all operations by the...

Penn State University has filed paperwork indicating it intends to sue the charity founded by ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, whose child molestation scandal rocked the school in 2011. Sandusky’s charity, The Second Mile, has been dissolved and its assets surrendered to the state Attorney General’s Office.

Sunrise Police are searching for a thief who stole a food trailer from a local charity.

Uber and Goodwill have teamed up to help you with your Spring cleaning and help out a good cause all at the same time.

An upcoming charity golf tournament will benefit stray animals in South Florida and Bimini.

A scuba diving Santa Claus submerged 30 feet below the surface in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to deliver a bit of holiday cheer to marine inhabitants and to raise funds for a children’s charity.