5 Point Pleasant Area Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

POINT PLEASANT, NJ — If you’re like many of your Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach 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 Point Pleasant area.

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

1. St. Gregory's Pantry: This Point Pleasant Beach food pantry assists families in need with food year-round and holiday meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

2. Panthers, Let's Eat: This program is organized by parents in the Point Pleasant Borough schools, to ensure that children who are served by free and reduced-price lunch in school have meals when school is not in session. For children of families in need, school meals are sometimes the only meals they get on a consistent basis.

3. 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.

4. MA-22 (Ma Deuce Deuce): The organization 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.

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 both people who are adopting animals and to people working on trap-neuter-return programs.