5 Banning-Area Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

BANNING, CA — If you're like many of your Pass Area neighbors, you will spend much of your holiday season shopping and buying gifts for family and friends. Still, on Giving Tuesday, you can swipe that credit card toward these worthy nonprofits and give back to your local community.

Giving Tuesday, which in 2024 falls on Dec. 3, is dedicated to supporting nonprofit and community groups. Since 2012, nonprofits worldwide have used the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to galvanize fundraising, rally volunteers and add momentum to their causes.

Maintaining funding is a constant challenge for many nonprofits in the Temecula area, which fill gaps and meet other needs for the needy.

Here are five local nonprofits to consider getting behind on Giving Tuesday:

• Carol's Kitchen, the Pass Area nonprofit, has ensured that anyone hungry can be served a free, hot, nutritious meal in any of their strengthened San Gorgonio Pass and nearby communities of Southern California kitchens for over 25 years.
• Faith in Action is a community-based non-profit in Banning dedicated to finding ways to assist the low-income and homeless through social justice projects. They help fund hotel vouchers for homeless individuals, provide tents and blankets for distribution, and meet with individuals to navigate resources leading to self-sufficiency.
• Hope, Empathy, Love, Prayer (H.E.L.P), a Banning-based non-profit that operates a food pantry that provides supplemental food to low-income families in the San Gorgonio Pass area, expressed gratitude to the Tribe for its focus on helping the community. Banning's local food pantry provides supplemental food to needy families living between Calimesa and Cabazon.
• Boys & Girls Club of the San Gorgonio Pass makes a difference in children's lives. Whether for coaching, group leadership, tutoring or homework help, fundraising volunteer, or instructing the arts, your talents are always encouraged to be shared.
• Beaumont-Cherry Valley Rotary changes lives in the Pass Area with Seniors' Thanksgiving Dinner,
  Cherries Festival Parade, Chili Cook-Off, Cherries Jubilee, Veterans' BBQ. Interact clubs organize at least two projects yearly, one that helps their school or community and one that promotes international understanding. Rotary club sponsors mentor and guide Interactors as they carry out projects and develop leadership skills.