5 Brick Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

BRICK, NJ — If you’re like many of your Brick Township 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 Brick area.

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

1. Seeds Of Service: The organization based in Brick provides help to families through a food pantry, home goods and clothing program, and services to teach financial literacy and help people gain skills for employment.

2. Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey: The organization provides services to seniors, veterans, and elderly disabled, along with individuals living with dementia, and caregivers of loved ones with chronic illnesses. The help provided includes transportation to medical appointments, caregiver respite, grocery shopping assistance, handyman services and more in Ocean and Monmouth counties.

3. MA-22 (Ma Deuce Deuce): The organization based in Ocean County serves veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder from their military service, and helps their families, through outings and other ways to connect, to help prevent veteran suicides.

4. Dottie's House: The organization based in Brick assists women and their children who are escaping domestic violence situations through a long-term, comprehensive program that offers counseling for women and their children, along with help to find work and more while they build new lives.

5. Animal Birth Control ABC-NJ: The organization provides assistance for spaying and neutering cats and dogs to help reduce the population of unwanted animals to people who are adopting animals and to people working on trap-neuter-return programs.