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12 Bronxville/Eastchester Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

Maintaining funding is a constant challenge for many nonprofits that fill gaps and meet other needs in the Bronxville/Eastchester area.

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BRONXVILLE/EASTCHESTER, NY — If you’re like many of your Bronxville/Eastchester 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 Bronxville/Eastchester.

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Here are 12 local nonprofits to consider getting behind on Giving Tuesday:

  • Bronxville Beautification Council: "The mission of the BBC is to enhance and maintain the natural and man-made beauty of the village of Bronxville, with an emphasis on the downtown business district."
  • The Bronxville School Foundation: " Foundation projects touch every student, elevating their educational experience in academics, the arts, athletics and student support services. The Foundation enables excellence at our school by helping maintain the competitive advantages that help keep our community strong and support fulfillment of the Bronxville Promise. "
  • Bundles of Joy (Bronxville): "We give parents and children from birth to 12 years old the essentials they need to thrive. Parenthood is hard enough, and we want all parents to have the resources they need to feel prepared. We supply items free of charge through generous donations from our community constituents. By providing children and their parents with the tools necessary to thrive, we are building confidence that lasts a lifetime."
  • The Community Fund (Bronxville, Eastchester, Tuckahoe): "The Community Fund currently supports 26 social service agencies and community programs which provided critical services to Bronxville, Eastchester, Tuckahoe and the area within the Bronxville 10708 zip code (the BET community). In addition to funding, The Community Fund also provides administrative support to the agencies it supports through on-going site visits, consultations, workshops and forums."
  • The Eastchester School Foundation: "The mission of the Eastchester School Foundation is to enrich academics, the arts, and the athletic programs for students in the Eastchester Union Free School District.The Foundation will garner the support of the entire Eastchester community including alumni, staff, parents, residents, and businesses.The Foundation will facilitate, enhance and financially support worthy causes and special needs of the district, consistent with the philosophy of education of the Eastchester Schools."
  • Friends of the Bronxville Public Library: "Our mission is to focus public attention on the Library’s services, facilities, and needs; sponsor special projects; secure materials that are beyond the reach of the regular Library budget; and perform other services that are helpful to this beloved 145-year-old institution."
  • Friends of the Eastchester Public Library: "dedicated to supporting the activities and mission of the Eastchester Public Library. The Friends raise funds to support services and programs outside the scope of the library's annual operating budget. Most importantly of all, Friends members are advocates of the library who know the importance of the role of the library in their community."
  • Friends of the Tuckahoe Public Library: "advocates for, and provides support for the Tuckahoe Public Library. Our goal is to initiate, organize, promote, and encourage cultural and educational activities, and to raise funds to support certain library activities and needs."
  • The Picture House (Pelham, Bronxville): "to create a shared community experience for diverse audiences through film, education programing and unique cultural offerings."
  • Sarah Lawrence College: "At Sarah Lawrence College our mission is to graduate world citizens who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, who cross disciplinary boundaries, and who are able to sustain exceptional academic discipline within a framework of humanistic values and concern for community. Our unique educational practices provide our students with the opportunity to study intensively in small classes, to engage in independent research, and to spend unparalleled amounts of time working one-on-one with an exceptional faculty of scholars and artists, creating a tailored academic program of students' own design. Our goal is to instill a lifelong intellectual curiosity and nimbleness, as well as the confidence and entrepreneurial spirit to embrace a broad range of personal, professional, and creative pursuits. We thus prepare students to think and act independently so that they will tackle the problems of, and thrive in, a complex and rapidly evolving world."
  • Secret Santas (Eastchester): "providing holiday presents to foster children, by working with agencies in Westchester County, through anonymous gifts from the support of our annual fundraising event."
  • Tuckahoe Beautification Association: "The Tuckahoe Beautification Association is comprised of resident volunteers who, by way of fundraising and donations, strive to protect the aesthetics and historic beauty of the Village of Tuckahoe."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

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