Thrivent clients put generosity in action: Spring 2025

A powerful wave of generosity unfolded across the U.S. on Dec. 3, 2024, when Thrivent clients in 19 Thrivent Member Networks raised nearly $1.4 million for 24 local causes.

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has been known as Giving Tuesday since 2012. Thrivent has participated in Giving Tuesday, which was created from a simple idea to encourage people to do good, since 2018. The total impact in those seven years is more than $8.5 million.

Thrivent Member Networks rallied clients locally and online to support nonprofits across the country.

The donations from nearly 4,000 participants supported a range of causes, including:

• Happy Bottoms, which provides diapers to families in need.
• Bri’s Lodge, which supports families and individuals navigating grief.
• Roots for Boots, which connects military families—predominately in rural areas—with services and funding available to them.

Thrivent matched $1 for every $2 donated to featured organizations, up to $20,000 per participating Thrivent Member Network.

Atchison, Kansas

As a child, Gail Stevens remembers helping her dad mow the local cemetery and how she felt when U.S. flags were placed at the gravestones of deceased veterans. And now she’s paying it forward.

It started four years ago while visiting her in-laws’ graves at Mount Vernon Cemetery, where she saw several stones needed some tender loving care. She led a Thrivent Action Team of about 15 people, including her daughters and grandchildren, to clean the stones with a special product for the purpose.

Since then, Gail has led a Thrivent Action Team annually to get and place flags on the gravesites of veterans. In 2024, the team grew to 28 people, who all had various roles in placing more than 450 flags at the cemetery. The flags currently stay up from Memorial Day to Veteran’s Day.

“I have respect for those who served,” Gail says. “I remember my grandmother taking me to the cemetery, and I want to share that with my grandkids.”