Giving Tuesday 2019: CUB Needs You
Posted on November 5, 2019 by Samuel Pastrick
Tags, General Interest
November kicks off an annual season of gratitude and charitable giving. CUB is excited to launch our annual #GivingTuesday campaign for 2019. Over the next four weeks (until Giving Tuesday on December 3), we will discuss why donating to CUB and becoming a member is a win-win for you as a residential utility customer, and for CUB.
Giving Tuesday is a unique “holiday”, with a mission to convene individuals, communities, and organizations around celebrating, honoring, and financially supporting public service. First launched in 2012 as a global day of giving on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.), Giving Tuesday initially raised $12 million and over $380 million worldwide last year, representing a 38 percent (over $100 million) increase from the year prior.
What’s perhaps even more remarkable is the total number of gifts: 3.6 million. This means that the average 2018 gift was around $100. For context, if each one of CUB’s roughly 3,000 statewide members were to contribute $100, we would triple our 2019 membership fundraising goal!
Throughout the year, you see all kinds of utility news here on the CUB blog. We announce the outcomes of rate cases and resource planning processes; report from symposiums and the annual CUB Policy Conference; dissect legislative activity in Salem; and explain all manner of complex economic and policy concepts to inform you about your utility services and all the activity behind the scenes.
But this time of the year, we add Giving Tuesday to our communications with you, understanding that one small gift - compounded hundreds, thousands, or even millions of times over - can change the face of an issue or cause. For CUB, the heart of our “ask” is for you to help us continue to deliver strong and consistent representation and advocacy for residential utility customers in Oregon.
Each fall, CUB begins an annual budget-making process that charts a course for our work in the following year. The greater our funding and overall budget capacity, the higher the quantity and quality of our work, and the stronger our representation and advocacy for our members and Oregon residential utility customers.
With all this in mind, over the next four weeks leading up to Giving Tuesday on December 3, stay tuned to the CUB blog, your email inbox, and social media channels for updates on our 2019 Giving Tuesday campaign.
Of course, you can jump right in and donate to CUB today in the spirit of Giving Tuesday! If you’re already a member (have contributed $5 or more in the past 12 months), please take that extra step in 2019. If you’re a former member, unsure of your membership status, or entirely new to CUB, align your generosity and charitable giving with your belief in advocacy for affordable, accessible, reliable, and clean utility services for all Oregonians.
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