5 Sarasota Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

SARASOTA, FL — If you’re like many of your Sarasota 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 Sarasota area.

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

1. Turning Points, a one-stop shop for preventing and reducing homelessness in the community.
2. Fabulous Arts Foundation, a queer and trans nonprofit organization using the arts to inspire and heal.
3. Big Cat Rescue, a zoological park focused on conservation and education.
4. Satchel’s Last Resort, which provides lifelong shelter to dogs deemed unadoptable, temporary shelter to adoptable animals, and nurtures and trains dogs and cats in need of a home.
5. Girls Inc. of Sarasota County, an organization dedicated to empowering girls and women ages 5 to 24.