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It's the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, which means today is Giving Tuesday, a day created to encourage people to do good things and celebrate generosity.

Let's go to our correspondent, Anya Schultz, to learn more about it.

You might have heard of Black Friday.

It's the day after Thanksgiving when people rush to stores to buy gifts on sale.

Or Cyber Monday when people shop online with big discounts.

I spoke with Dante Plush, who works for the organization behind Giving Tuesday.

He told me that today is pretty different than those shopping holidays. So pretty much Giving Tuesday is aiming to be the antithesis

of those things. It's like, if you can give money to these stores for Christmas presents on sales, you can also probably give money or time or, you know, a smile or something to other people on Tuesday.

Giving Tuesday began eight years ago as an organization to promote generosity.

Dante's job at Giving Tuesday is to work with kids all

over the world who want to make a difference. Young people go to the Giving Tuesday Spark website

and share a generous idea that they have. Then Dante helps make it happen. Dante said

Giving Tuesday is all about kindness.

We truly believe that like when people give and do generous acts of kindness,

you know, from the kindness of their heart, it not only makes other people feel nice,

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