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17 Chappaqua/Mount Kisco Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

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

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CHAPPAQUA/MOUNT KISCO, NY — If you’re like many of your Chappaqua/Mount Kisco 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 Chappaqua/Mount Kisco area.

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Here are 17 local nonprofits to consider getting behind on Giving Tuesday:

  • 914 Cares (Armonk): "Our vision is for everyone in Westchester to live a full, healthy, and happy life free from the hardship of poverty."
  • Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester (Mount Kisco): "dedicated to serving local youth, ages 6 months to 18 years, from more than 40 Northern Westchester communities."
  • Byram Hills Foundation: "grants extend educational opportunities BEYOND what the District’s operating budget can provide. The BHEF has funded over 460 grants valued at more than $5.4 million since 1994."
  • Chappaqua Children's Book Festival: "on a mission to connect authors with readers everywhere. We produce one of the largest and most engaging annual children’s book festivals in the United States and support literacy programs countrywide."
  • Chappaqua Garden Club: "dedicated to the conservation of local gardens. With approximately 100 members from all over Westchester County, the club is a part of District IX in the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State. We devote our time to the beautification of public spaces, educating the children and adults in the community, and practicing organic and sustainable gardening techniques."
  • Chappaqua School Foundation: "to fund innovative projects and programs for K-12 that fall outside the scope of the Chappaqua Central School District (CCSD) budget. These initiatives represent grants written by teachers, administrators, parents and students that will have a meaningful impact on teaching and learning."
  • Foundation for Bedford Central Schools: "to enhance learning opportunities for students of all seven schools within the district."
  • Friends of the Chappaqua Library: "The purpose of the organization is to encourage, receive, and administer gifts for the benefit of the Chappaqua Library."
  • Friends of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center: "lead fundraising opportunities for the theatre through donations and programming."
  • Friends of the North Castle Public Library: "The Friends provides most of the programs, films and classes for the Armonk and North White Plains branches of the North Castle Public Library. We also sponsor the Armonk Players and improvements to our library facilities, and run the nationally acclaimed Armonk Outdoor Art Show with the help of hundreds of volunteers."
  • Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry: "Through our twice weekly in person and bi-weekly home delivery distributions, we serve an average of 670 households per week. We fed over 110,600 people in 2024 (of which 26% were children and 11% were seniors). Our dedicated team of volunteers unload food deliveries and stock shelves, pack produce, rescue food from local food donors, make home deliveries, and assist our guests at distributions."
  • Mount Kisco Public Library: "to promote a love of reading and a sense of wonder and discovery amongst our patrons."
  • Neighbors Link (Mount Kisco, Ossining , Yonkers): "The Neighbors Link mission is to strengthen the whole community through the healthy integration of immigrants. Our mission is achieved by filling a service gap for new immigrant families, offering education and empowerment programs, involving longer-term residents in volunteer opportunities and creating substantive partnerships with other local organizations. Our strategies to educate, empower and employ families include a Worker Center, English as a Second Language (ESL) education, legal services and advocacy, workforce development, parent education, early childhood programs and academic support for school-age children of immigrants."
  • New Castle Historical Society: "dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in learning about the rich history of the Town of New Castle. The Horace Greeley House serves as a house museum, an exhibition space, and a research center. The mission of the New Castle Historical Society is to discover, collect, preserve and communicate the history of the Town of New Castle. The New Castle Historical Society’s vision is to create a sense of community through a shared understanding of the town’s history, to serve as a resource of learning for individuals and families, and to be an inviting cultural base for the town of New Castle."
  • Open Door Family Medical Centers (Ossining, Brewster, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Port Chester, Saugerties, Sleepy Hollow): "provides excellent, accessible, and personalized health care regardless of ability to pay to build healthier families and communities."
  • Sustainable Westchester (Mount Kisco): "consortium of Westchester County local governments that facilitates effective collaboration on sustainability initiatives."
  • Westchester Youth Alliance (Chappaqua): "builds bridges across our diverse communities of faith, race and identity through dialogue and service that strive for justice and understanding."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

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