Giving Tuesday 2025
Giving Tuesday (December 2 this year) is a worldwide movement to highlight generosity and charity. After what is for many the shopping frenzy of Black Friday, Giving Tuesday provides an opportunity to think about the organizations that matter to us, organizations that depend on donors to keep doing the good work they do. Organizations like the Centre for Christian Studies.
CCS educates people for ministries of justice, compassion, and transformation. It prepares faith leaders who can bridge church and community. It does diaconal education for diaconal ministries. It imagines theological education differently.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to see their money going toward something tangible and concrete (and some people are), let me tell you about our Smartboards.
Fourteen years ago the Centre for Christian Studies installed Smartboards in its meeting/classrooms – large screens that could be used for videoconferencing, projecting slides and presentations, collaborating on documents with a large group, and watching videos. The Smartboard didn’t entirely replace flipcharts – what could? – but they’re vital parts of a learning circle. This past October the students in the Health, Pain, & Trauma learning circle in Winnipeg were able to see and talk about disability theology with Miriam Spies onscreen from her home in Southern Ontario. Thanks to a video screen it feels like we’re in the same room when we gather for staff meetings, even when we live in different parts of the country.
Fourteen years is a long time for technology, and our Smartboards have started to die. This Giving Tuesday we are inviting you to help us replace these screens – windows to a wider world, portals for connection, canvases for collaborative vision – with new video screens that students and staff can use for learning, teaching, and connecting.
