Giving Tuesday gift challenge could help 100s in northern Maine

A $50,000 gift match challenge to a local nonprofit by an anonymous donor for Giving Tuesday will make a huge difference for Mainers living with disabilities, said Living Innovations Community Resource Manager Angelina Jackman. “We have a donor that has given us a gift challenge. If we can raise $50,000 as an organization on Giving Tuesday, he will match it,” she said. “That’s pretty huge. That’s astronomically huge.” Falling on the day after Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 for people to do generous acts for neighbors like painting and yard work or to donate labor or money to local nonprofits. For people with disabilities who are supported by Living Innovations, it makes a difference in daily survival, she said. Worries about how to pay $7 for a bottle of medicated shampoo or new glasses broken during a seizure take the place of holiday primping, decorations and an ever-growing Santa gift list, she added.

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