After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday, a day focused on charitable giving.

Youth Alliance is one nonprofit organization in the St. Joseph community. Youth Alliance Executive Director Robin Hammond said Giving Tuesday is a national day of giving.

“It’s a great way to remember nonprofits in the community and throughout the nation and to send a gift that kind of shows that you support the work that they do and that you value the work that they do in the community,” Hammond said.

Hammond said on Giving Tuesday, community members can support Youth Alliance programs such as Circle of Parents.

“It’s a group that has been meeting at Youth Alliance for many years and we don’t have any ongoing funding for that and we’re reaching out into the community to ask people to give to us and one avenue is through Giving Tuesday,” Hammond said. “Circle of Parents is really a support group. It’s a way for parents who maybe are isolated to come together and build relationships with other parents. It gives them an opportunity to bounce ideas off of each other. We usually have an educational component at each of the meetings. They are parent led and parent planned.”

Hammond said Youth Alliance also focuses on youth volunteerism through programs such as Youth Volunteer Corps which works with youth 11-18 engaging them in volunteer service in the community.

For more information on Youth Alliance, or to donate, click here.

In addition to Youth Alliance, here is an online list of some other organizations in the St. Joseph area.