Giving Tuesday 2025: What is it and how to donate

What is Giving Tuesday?

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that takes place each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It encourages people to support nonprofits through donations, volunteering, and advocacy, bringing people and communities together to support the causes and Giving Tuesday charities they care about.

Giving Tuesday started in 2012 and has grown into a worldwide movement that celebrates the impact of collective giving. Now in its twelfth year, this special day of giving invites us all to make a difference by uniting in the spirit of generosity and creating lasting change for nonprofit organizations and communities around the world.
 

When is Giving Tuesday 2025?

Giving Tuesday will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. It occurs each year on the first Tuesday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.

How does Giving Tuesday work? 

For MSF, Giving Tuesday is a chance to rally support for our medical teams who are responding to crises around the world. By making a gift on this day, supporters help MSF deliver urgent care to those affected by conflict, natural disasters, epidemics, and other emergencies across more than 75 countries.

The best part? All gifts given, up to $1,000,000, will be tripled through midnight on Tuesday, December 2—thanks to a generous matching grant from Worthington & Margaret Mayo-Smith. This means that your gift can go further, helping MSF provide essential medical supplies, staff, and resources to save lives.

Why is Giving Tuesday 2025 important?

Giving Tuesday 2025 is important because it's one of the few days dedicated to the idea of giving back—whether through a donation, volunteering, or sharing your passion. This day invites you to be part of lifesaving efforts, helping MSF provide critical medical care and support to patients and communities facing crises across the globe.

Why should you make a Giving Tuesday donation in 2025?

There is no time to lose when it comes to saving lives. Our generous community of supporters is foundational to our ability to deliver care whenever and wherever it’s needed most—our patients are counting on your support. Here are five reasons to give to MSF this Giving Tuesday:

• You help us save lives. For more than 50 years, our medical teams have been reaching those caught in crisis with rapid-response care. You make it possible for us to provide medical treatment to more than 16 million people.
• Our patients need us—and you—more than ever. Natural disasters, armed conflict, malnutrition, and disease outbreaks are on the rise and communities with fragile health systems are hit the hardest. Your support and our expertise ensure we can reach them with emergency medical care.
• You can trust your investment. Dollar for dollar, the impact you make by supporting Doctors Without Borders is unparalleled. We are committed to directing every dollar we can to our lifesaving programs.
• We speak out. If our medical teams observe needless suffering—children dying of malnutrition, refugees being denied care, or people who can’t access lifesaving vaccines—we will not stay silent.
• Your support keeps us fiercely independent. Organizations that take money from governments or institutions face red tape and limits on whom they can help. Your gift safeguards our independence and allows us to go wherever we are needed to save lives.

How to donate on Giving Tuesday 2025

There are several ways to participate in Giving Tuesday 2025. As an MSF supporter, you can empower high-quality emergency medical care in some of the most challenging environments around the world.  Options for making your Giving Tuesday gift to MSF include:

• Making a matched donation
• Creating your own fundraiser
• Getting your workplace involved
• Playing video games and streaming online
• Setting an athletic challenge

How your Giving Tuesday donation makes a difference

Your Giving Tuesday gift supports a powerful movement of 69,000 doctors, nurses, logistical staff, and other experts doing whatever it takes to provide lifesaving medical and mental health care to those most in need every single day in more than 75 countries.

For over 50 years, MSF has remained dedicated to our values of independence and neutrality. We provide care based solely on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. And when a disaster strikes—such as an earthquake or violent conflict—MSF teams are among the first to leap into action.

Here’s just some of the impact we were able to have in 2025 with the generosity and support of our donors:

• Sudan: In response to the escalating violence in El Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur state, MSF teams set up a health post at the entrance to the nearby Tawila. We are scaling up our emergency care, surgical care, and other services in the Tawila Hospital. We are treating patients for gunshot wounds, fractures, and injuries related to beatings and torture. Our teams are also treating patients with infected wounds or complications from surgical procedures performed in El Fasher, where they had little to no access to medical supplies and drugs. MSF has been treating those in need across Sudan since before the war broke out in 2023. In 2025 alone, MSF carried out more than 530,589 outpatient consultations, 14,666 deliveries, and 5,589 individual mental health consultations.
• Gaza: The Israeli forces’ siege and blockade of food and aid has led to a rise in malnutrition cases. In parts of Gaza, famine has been declared by international experts. While we welcome the ceasefire, the end of conflict does not mean the end of people’s suffering. Thanks to you, our teams are supporting a 10-bed inpatient therapeutic feeding center in Nasser Hospital alone. We are also providing malnutrition screening in multiple health care facilities. Our teams are also providing access to clean water, distributing 1.9 million liters of water per day in August alone.
• Afghanistan: Following the cancellation of over $1 billion in U.S. international aid to Afghanistan, some 422 health facilities have suspended or ended activities, putting pressure on hospitals to meet the surge in pediatric patients. Because of you, our teams at the Boost hospital emergency room treated 13,738 children under five in April—the highest monthly total since at least 2020. And at Herat Regional Hospital in the first five months of 2025, an average of 354 children daily received emergency room consultations.

Giving Tuesday is an especially meaningful day for all of us at MSF. It’s a chance to show our healthcare workers that we support them. And it’s a chance to make sure we have the resources we need—everything from personal protective equipment to testing supplies—for the long road ahead. 

Read more about our financial accountability & reporting and how we use donations to reach people in need.

How else can you participate in Giving Tuesday 2025?

Giving Tuesday is about more than donations—it’s an opportunity to get involved in meaningful ways to support MSF and amplify our lifesaving work around the world. Here are some ways individuals and organizations can help:

• One of the simplest ways to participate is by using your voice online. Share a post about MSF’s work on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. Use the hashtag #GivingTuesday and tag MSF to help your followers learn about the importance of medical care in crisis zones.
• MSF volunteers work in positions that may involve clerical work or specialist skills and experience.
• One of the most effective ways to help MSF bring medical care where it’s needed most is by becoming a Field Partner—our monthly donors. Field Partners ensure we are able to respond at a moment’s notice, whenever and wherever aid is needed most.

Why Giving Tuesday matters in 2025 and beyond

By making a donation to MSF in honor of Giving Tuesday, you are participating in a global day of generosity and giving and directly supporting our work to bring lifesaving medical care in some of the most challenging and urgent crises—from conflict zones and refugee camps to communities facing disease outbreaks and natural disasters.