5 Batavia Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

BATAVIA, IL — If you’re like many of your Batavia 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 Batavia area.

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

• Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley, a Batavia-based nonprofit committed to making sure people in the Fox River Valley have access to and know about healthy food. The organization also organizes farmer's markets on Aurora's southeast side.
• Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry, a not-for-profit food pantry founded by local churches looking to help people in need in their community.
• Batavia United Way, a nonprofit organization that focuses on education, income and health. Some of its programs include Adopt-A-Family and Success by 6.
• CASA Kane County, a nonprofit organization aiming to help children in abuse, neglect and private guardianship cases within the juvenile court system.
• Anderson Humane, a South Elgin animal shelter that has given second chances to more than 4,000 animals since its inception in 1966. The organization also helps wild animals, certifies therapy pets and takes care of military member's pets when owners are deployed.