5 Fairfield Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

FAIRFIELD, CT — If you’re like many of your Fairfield neighbors, you may spend a good part of the holiday season with your credit card in hand buying gifts for family and friends. Coming up soon is a chance to give back to the local community.

Giving Tuesday, which in 2024 falls on Dec. 3, is a day 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 that fill gaps and meet other needs in the Fairfield area.

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

1. Homes with Hope: An organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in Fairfield County.
2. Homes for the Brave: Providing housing and services to individuals experiencing homelessness, especially Veterans.
3. Wakeman Boys & Girls Club: To guide and inspire young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible people.
4. Operation Hope: Provides individuals and families the opportunity to experience transformative change.
5. The Pilot House: Pulls together social programs, life skills, therapeutic services and support to serve the diverse needs of children, young adults and adults with special needs, to promote their continuing growth and progress.