Habitat for Humanity of St. Augustine/St. Johns County (Habitat St. Johns) is preparing for the upcoming St. Augustine Giving Day 2025 event. This competitive fundraiser will take place from noon May 7 through 11:59 a.m. May 8.
This event is a fun, energizing way for the community to come together and support local nonprofits, including Habitat St. Johns. There are opportunities to help in big ways, like doing an online peer-to-peer fundraiser with your network of family and friends, working with your contacts to help the nonprofit win one of the various prizes, and/or making a matching gift contribution to help double the donations made that day. You can also help by donating during the event and spreading the word among your network.
Some of the prizes are really fun, like being the very first person to make a donation at noon on May 7, having the donor from the farthest away (Do you know anyone in New Zealand who could donate even $5?) and having gifts come in from donors located in the most United States or the highest number of countries internationally.
Each of these prizes could award Habitat St. Johns an extra $1,000 each.
Habitat St. Johns, together with its donors, volunteers, homeowners and community partners, are building homes, community and hope in St. Johns County. Habitat St. Johns was incorporated in 1992 and has built 175 affordable homes in St. Johns County since 1993. Fundraising events like St. Augustine Giving Day have a huge and lasting impact; every dollar is a building block to help Habitat homeowners create a better future for themselves and their families.
St. Augustine Giving Day 2025 (givingday2025.com) is a 24-hour online giving event designed to empower every person to give back to their community by supporting local nonprofits and the causes they care about. The one-day event helps build awareness and support for nonprofits through a unique partnership.
In 2024, $530,846 was raised through 2,434 donors benefiting more than 62 nonprofits. This year the Giving Day organizers (The Focus Group and Endless Summer Realty) aim to raise even more and partner with a larger number of nonprofits around the U.S.
Since its inception in 2019, this event grew from an idea to help local people give wisely, to a movement that has inspired a broad culture of community-wide giving. During Giving Day 2025, everyone has the opportunity to be a philanthropist; every dollar will make a difference.
Giving Day 2025 is made possible through a unique partnership — hosted by the John 1:16 Foundation and sponsored by Endless Summer Realty (ESR) and The FOCUS Group (TFG).
