5 Shrewsbury Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

SHREWSBURY, MA — If you’re like many of your Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury area.

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

• Binkeez for Comfort provides blankets to babies and children struggling to survive life-threatening illnesses, acute developmental and neurological disorders and severe burns.
• 5 Kilobytes Inc. provides a low to no cost option for students to learn STE(a)M and active life skills.
• Worcester County Food Bank is one of three Feeding America member food banks in Massachusetts.
• Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services offers counseling and social services agency, providing a diverse offering of programs and services that help to strengthen and support youth and families.
• Raptor Tales Rescue rescues, rehabilitates and releases raptors.