5 Detroit Area Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

METRO DETROIT — If you’re like many of your neighbors in the Detroit area, 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 metro Detroit area.

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

• Capuchin Soup Kitchen: The Capuchin Soup Kitchen serves Metro Detroit by providing food, clothing, and human development programs to the people of our community.
• Focus: HOPE: Focus: HOPE address the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education and racial divisiveness through its three primary programs.
• CARE House of Oakland County: The non-profit helps fight child abuse and neglect, and helps to protect children through advocacy, education, intervention, research, training and treatment, in collaboration with the community.
• Community Living Services, Inc. Wayne County Division: The non-profit has been providing supports and services for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities for decades.
• Open Door Outreach Food Pantry/ Client Services: The non-profit provides emergency Services of Food, Clothing, and Referral Information to People in Need.