5 Lawrence Area Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ — If you’re like many of your Lawrence 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 Lawrence area.

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

1. PEI Kids: The organization fosters child-safe communities by delivering expert crisis, preventative, and intervention programs addressing personal safety, sexual abuse, and the overall well-being of vulnerable children.
2. Younity: The organization works to prevent abuse, protect families, and change lives through empowerment and a safety net of supportive services. Younity provides quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing domestic violence or sexual assault.
3. Homefront: HomeFront’s mission is to end homelessness in Central New Jersey by harnessing the caring, resources, and expertise of the community.
4. People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos: The organization is dedicated to opening doors to literature for new audiences. Through oral readings and rigorous discussions of enduring short stories, they invite participants to find fresh understandings of themselves, others, and the world.
5. Dress for Success: Dress for Success helps unemployed and underemployed women achieve economic independence by providing no-fee programs, development tools, and professional attire to thrive in work and in life.

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