Every year, Giving Tuesday invites the world to pause, reflect, and choose generosity. It’s a day powered by people coming together to create something bigger than any one person can do alone—a day where kindness becomes movement, and every gift, big or small, changes someone’s tomorrow.
For nonprofits like Oakwood Creative Care, Giving Tuesday isn’t just a date on the calendar. It’s an opportunity to fuel life-changing programs that help older adults and families affected by memory loss and age-related cognitive challenges live with purpose, joy, and dignity.
Why Your Support Matters
When you donate to Oakwood Creative Care, you’re doing far more than making a charitable gift—you’re directly shaping moments that matter. Your generosity helps us:
Deliver extraordinary Cognitive Stimulation Therapy that keeps minds active, engaged, and empowered.
Provide creative arts, music, and movement experiences that spark joy, unlock memories, and bring people together.
Support caregivers with essential respite, resources, and the confidence to navigate today while planning for tomorrow.
Create moments of connection—through choirs, friendships, shared laughter, and meaningful routines that restore a sense of identity and belonging.
Build a compassionate community that sees ability, not decline, and believes in redefining the aging journey with imagination and hope.
The Power of Your Gift on Giving Tuesday
Every dollar you give helps us create more days where families feel supported, older adults feel seen, and caregivers no longer feel alone. And for Oakwood, Giving Tuesday is more than a day of giving—it’s the spark that fuels hope, connection, and care for the year ahead.
Your gift on this single day sets in motion countless moments that ripple through 2026 and beyond by:
- Expanding innovative programming that strengthens both brain and body wellness
- Enabling sliding-scale services so families can access care regardless of financial constraints
- Bringing more creative therapies, meaningful activities, and caregiver resources to our Day Clubs and Hubs
- Ensuring no one walks this brain-health journey without support, compassion, and community
“This season, join us — not just in giving, but in believing… Believing that a woman living with Alzheimer’s can still feel the joy of dancing to her favorite song. Believing that a veteran with Parkinson’s can still paint with bold strokes and find pride in his art. Believing that a care partner who feels isolated and exhausted can still find hope, community, and a reason to smile again.
You could be the reason someone finds color, laughter, movement, and light during a time when they desperately need it.”
– Sherri Friend, Oakwood Creative Care President and CEO
Together, We Create a Better Future for Aging
This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to help us imagine—and build—a future filled with connection, creativity, and compassionate support for everyone navigating memory loss or cognitive challenges.
Your gift today becomes someone’s hope for tomorrow.
Give joy. Give belonging. Give possibility.
Together, We Create a Better Future for Aging
If you live in Arizona, your Giving Tuesday donation may qualify for the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit—meaning you can support meaningful aging at no cost to you.
Here’s how it works:
- Oakwood Creative Care is a Qualified Charitable Organization (QCO) in Arizona.
- When you donate, you may claim a dollar-for-dollar credit on your Arizona state taxes.
- For 2025, individuals may claim up to $470, and married couples filing jointly may claim up to $938.
- You don’t need to itemize your taxes to receive the credit.
- You can even use the Charitable Tax Credit in addition to the School or Foster Care credits.
