Giving Tuesday: 5 Healdsburg Nonprofits That Could Use Your Help

HEALDSBURG, CA — There’s no single way to show generosity on Giving Tuesday, which falls on Tuesday, Dec. 2, this year, but several nonprofits in Healdsburg are counting on end-of-the-year donations and support.

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday all focus on consumerism, while the idea behind GivingTuesday is to galvanize fundraising, rally volunteers and add momentum to their causes.

Since 2012, nonprofits, community and grassroots groups, and mutual aid networks worldwide have used the #GivingTuesday hashtag to encourage fundraising, rally volunteers and add momentum to their causes, according to the nonprofit of the same name behind the movement.

Local nonprofits remain heavily dependent on donor support. Charitable contributions increased 2.9 percent from June 2024 to June 2025, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Report analysis.

Notably, although total dollars raised have increased, year-to-date performance among supersize donors has been softer than in 2024, making small contributions more important than ever.

In the United States, Giving Tuesday is led by hundreds of communities, networks and coalitions.

Here are five nonprofits in Healdsburg that depend on community support (donations should be made directly to each of the nonprofits below):

1. The Healdsburg Food Pantry is an all-volunteer organization that collects, stores, and distributes food to neighbors in need in Healdsburg or Geyserville — whether they live or work there. The organization accepts donations in form of money, food, and volunteer work. The pantry accomplishes their work with the commitment of the more than 500 volunteer gleaners, 400+ property owners and more than 100 community partners. There are many ways to help: become a volunteer gleaner, help grow the table, or grow a row/start a community garden. Sign up here to become a volunteer.

2. Corazón Healdsburg operates a bilingual family resource center where it works with hundreds of low-income families from the communities of Healdsburg, Windsor, Cloverdale and Geyserville on overcoming cycles of poverty and becoming self-sustainable and self-reliant. The people and families it supports are 100 percent low-income, 95 percent are Latin American and approximately 75 percent are monolingual Spanish speakers. Corazón provides family-centered coaching, direct financial assistance, wrap-around services and referrals to partner agencies. Volunteers are sought for food box distribution and diaper distribution; monetary donations can be made online on a one-time, monthly or annual basis.

3. Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County is a nonprofit whose mission is to spay and neuter every unowned cat in Sonoma County. While the organization's clinic is in Santa Rosa, their work touches the lives of felines in Healdsburg and around the North Bay. For unowned cats that visit the spay and neuter clinic in Santa Rosa, the organization provides medical care for sick and injured felines, and find loving homes for adoptable ones. Forgotten Felines, founded in 1990, relies on the generosity of donors and the dedication of volunteers to continue their work. If you are thinking about volunteering, click here.

4. Healdsburg Center For The Arts on Plaza Street is a non-profit organization recognized as a cultural anchor in Healdsburg and for the surrounding communities. The center's mission is to be the community catalyst for inspiring discovery and exploration of the arts by providing audiences of all ages, orientations, and ethnicities a place to imagine, connect, learn, explore, and provide access to experiences that inspire and transform. The organization hosts performances, library readings, visual art presentations, and educational workshops in the arts for artists, art patrons, and students with the help of a team of dedicated volunteers.

4. Farm to Fight Hunger grows, harvests and delivers fresh nutritiodus produce, free of charge, to Sonoma County residents in need of healthy food. Eggs "laid by happy pastured hens" are also donated to local food banks. Food is grown with earth-friendly, sustainable methods to improve the soil health, therefore improving the nutritional content of the food, increasing the amount of carbon the soil can hold and reducing greenhouse gases. The goal is to make the farm its own healthy balanced ecosystem, with habitat for both native plants and beneficial insects.

The Giving Tuesday movement encourages “radical generosity,” the concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering, according to the movement’s website.

Giving Tuesday was created in New York City in 2012 with a simple goal: to encourage people to do good. Over the past nine years, the idea has grown into the global movement it is today.

Last year, Giving Tuesday participants raised a record-breaking $3.6 billion from 36.1 million participants, bringing the total raised on the day since 2012 to $18.5 billion.