Tyler Gives is a one-day online fundraising event hosted by United Way of Smith County that takes place on #GivingTuesday (Nov. 28th, 2023). 100% of your donation will go directly to one or more of the dozens of Tyler agencies you can designate to.
Giving Tuesday was launched in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past several years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
No! When United Way of Smith County and our local partner agencies discussed launching this special giving day, we wanted to make sure that 100% of your online donation will get to the agency. United Way and our sponsors are covering all transaction fees to ensure that every penny you give will go directly to meeting real needs and won’t be exhausted on overhead or technology platforms to make this day possible.
Starting at 8AM CST on November 28th, 2023, the first $75,000 in online transactions process through the Tyler Gives campaign will be matched! There are two limits to this match: 1) up to $2,000 per individual transaction 2) up to $20,000 for a single agency.
Donations will be matched from 8AM to Midnight CST or until $75,000 has been raised.
The total raised will be announced November 29th on Facebook and displayed on the TylerGives.org homepage. Agencies will be notified via email by the end of the week with donor contact details and matching payout information.
100% of all contributions and matching funds will be paid out as a lump sum to the agencies before the end of the year. We must get through a full billing cycle for all online transactions to clear and then process the payments to each agency.
While we certainly won’t discourage any type of gift on Giving Tuesday that is helping our local agencies, we can only match online transactions for this specific event made directly on our TylerGives.com platform. The reason for that is that all transactions are time stamped, and we will be able to allocate the $75,000 matching funds in a fair way.