ThanksGiving Tuesday 2025: How Your Support Helps MKs and TCKs Thrive

This ThanksGiving Tuesday 2025*, we celebrate the incredible generosity of our financial partners who help MKs and other TCKs** thrive around the world. Their support makes a tangible difference in MKs/TCKs education, sense of belonging, and personal growth. Every gift helps ensure that these children, who live between cultures, have the resources, community, and guidance they need to flourish.

Because of our supporters, 2025 has been an extraordinary year:

• 33 teachers were trained and placed in international schools, keeping vital education options open for MKs/TCKs.
• 88 TCKs received scholarships for our  camps–spaces designed for healing, growth, and connection.
• $6,500 helped launch the first-ever conference for indigenous African MKs—a milestone years in the making.

These accomplishments are more than numbers—they are lives transformed. The generosity of Interaction’s financial partners empowers children and teens to navigate the unique challenges of growing up as Third Culture Kids, while giving staff the support they need to pour into these young lives fully.

Celebrating Donors This ThanksGiving Tuesday

ThanksGiving Tuesday, our version of Giving Tuesday, is more than a global day of giving—it’s a time to pause and express gratitude. We want to recognize those who donate, whose financial partnership makes Interaction International’s work possible. Whether you’ve contributed financially, volunteered your time, or shared our mission with others, your impact is real.

By celebrating you today, we also look ahead. As 2025 comes to a close, there is an opportunity to double your impact. Friends of Interaction International have offered a $15,000 matching gift for year-end donations, meaning every dollar you give now helps MKs and TCKs even more as we move into 2026.

Impact Stories from 2025

Each story of a child, teacher, or family reflects the power of your generosity:

• One MK recently shared how a scholarship-supported camp helped them feel seen, understood, and connected to peers facing similar experiences.
• Teachers placed through our training program have opened classrooms to students who might otherwise lack consistent education in international settings.
• Families navigating transitions across cultures have received guidance and encouragement, helping them thrive as their children grow.

Your support touches every facet of these lives—from education and personal growth to emotional well-being and community.

How You Can Help

 

This ThanksGiving Tuesday, your gift matters more than ever. By contributing now, you are ensuring that MKs and TCKs have access to scholarships, programs, and resources that set them up for success in 2026. You are also making sure our dedicated staff can continue to care, to build relationships, to develop programs, to teach–to pour their lives into MKs/TCKs and their communities. Every donation is matched up to $15,000, effectively doubling your generosity and sustaining staff who dedicate their lives to these children.

GIVE TODAY! Your gift will make a difference. Your gift of $25 becomes a gift of $50. Your gift of $100 doubles to become $200. And your gift of $1000 or more? You know it–it becomes $2000 or more!

If you give to our General Fund, you’re keeping the lights on for us. Your making sure we have the means to do what needs to be done. You’re providing postage, air fare, copy paper, pens, and sticky notes. You’re also helping us fill in the gaps where they exist.

If you choose to give to a specific staff member, you’re helping to close the gap in their support for the year. You’re keeping them on the job, in the ministry, making a difference in the lives of TCKs.

Either way, you become a hero to us. Thank you for choosing to spend your hard won treasure to make a difference in the lives of MKs and other TCKs. You are appreciated.

We cannot overstate our gratitude. Because of your partnership, MKs and other TCKs around the globe have opportunities to learn, grow, and belong in ways that would not be possible without your support. You give connection that can’t happen otherwise. You really do make a difference.

Thank you.

Thank you for caring. Thank you for giving. Thank you for cheering us on. We are together in this work, this ministry. We are grateful that you choose us. Thank you.

 

*ThanksGiving Tuesday – Giving Tuesday has become one of the noisiest days of the year for nonprofits. In a single scroll, donors are bombarded with urgent requests, countdown clocks, and one-day-only appeals. At Interaction International, we’ve always wanted this day to feel different. Instead of adding more noise, we created something quieter and more meaningful: ThanksGiving Tuesday. Yes, it looks like we’re adding to the noise; we really want this to be a comma in the sentence of the day. A deep breath in the middle of the noise.

MK = Missionary Kid, one whose parents are missionaries; a type of TCK

TCK = Third Culture Kid, one whose parents move outside their passport culture(s) for the sake of work or education