{"id":76587,"date":"2025-12-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=76587"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:42:12","slug":"giving-tuesday-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/giving-tuesday-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Tuesday, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This Giving Tuesday, our community of Lumberjacks proved they have hearts of blue and gold! <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jacks on and off campus gave back, raising more than $137,000 to address the most urgent student needs and create meaningful change. Their December Axe of Kindness will fuel important environmental research, provide emergency assistance to students in need and help keep Louie\u2019s Cupboard stocked, among many other things.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Here\u2019s a breakdown of Jacks\u2019 generous support on Giving Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Giving Tuesday raised <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">$137,940 from 264 donors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, passing last year\u2019s total by $8,592.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Top areas of impact:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">($12,165)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Louie\u2019s Cupboard <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">($11,525, unlocking an additional $50,000 gift from Terence and Robin Roche<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2014which equates to 4,101 Grab &amp; Go bags of groceries!)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Giving Tuesday Champions drove strong peer-to-peer engagement, raising <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">$21,915 through personal outreach.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">An anonymous donor unlocked a <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">$12,000\u202fchallenge for the Lumberjack Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">), funding <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">37 LEAF grants.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">180\u202falumni,\u202f112\u202ffaculty and staff and\u202f28\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">parents and family members donated.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Alumni from the 1990s were the largest class to get involved.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">31<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"none\">people made their first gift to NAU.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">If you haven\u2019t swung your Axe of Kindness yet, there\u2019s still time to make an impact! Give today at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/givingday.foundationnau.org\/giving-day\/106489\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">givingday.foundationnau.org<\/span><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"none\">to directly support students who need it most.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/giving-tuesday-2025\/\">This Giving Tuesday, our community of Lumberjacks proved they have hearts of blue and gold! \u00a0 Jacks on and off campus gave back, raising more than $137,000 to address the most urgent student needs and create meaningful change. Their December Axe of Kindness will fuel important environmental research, provide emergency assistance to students in need&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":76588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}