The Sustainable Giving Campaign
The Sustainable Giving Campaign is an annual one-week fundraising campaign for nonprofit organizations working to build a more sustainable future in Baltimore.
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$6,150 raised
$6,085 raised
$8,216 raised
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$3,106 raised for the St. Francis Neighborhood Center
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$2,726 raised for Blue Water Baltimore
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$318 raised for other Baltimore nonprofits
$17,846 raised
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An additional $5,000 to the Maryland Food Bank
$15,549 raised
$13,631 raised
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An additional $6,342.89 for Tyrone's Ice Cream Cart business
$14,424 raised
$13,429 raised
$101,697
Raised since 2017
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Trust: Our local nonprofit recipients are carefully vetted organizations creating efficient change.
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Impact: Our collective gift enables immediate programming and action we couldn't inspire individually.
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Value: Administrative work for The Sustainable Giving Campaign is volunteered. All funds go directly to the nonprofit via their chosen method of donations with no pass-throughs, percentages, or profits of any kind taken, ever.
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Ease: One online donation directly to a nonprofit, without being added to a mailing list, with no extra work.
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Intent: Setting aside funds to give annually is better than lump-sum and spontaneous donations.
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The Sustainable Giving Campaign hopes to promote sustainability in two ways: by funding local community-building and environmental work and by encouraging our donors to think about giving annually and regularly. Tipper founded the campaign in 2017 with the pledge to donate 5% of his total annual income after reading about tithing and the idea of giving back a percentage of wealth foundational to many religions. Our hope is that our donors consider giving a percentage of their annual income to nonprofit organizations working to make Baltimore a more sustainable space. Giving a percentage of income helps people be more generous during good financial times and also allows people to feel less pressured when they don't have as much financially.