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9 Harrison Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

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

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HARRISON, NY — If you’re like many of your Harrison 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 Harrison.

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

  • Cancer Support Team (Purchase): "We offer in-home services for cancer patients and their families living in southern Westchester. Our nursing support, case management and social work services are provided free of charge, and no one needs to have insurance to be helped by CST."
  • Children's Hope Chest (Purchase): "The mission of The Children’ s Hope Chest is to provide help and offer hope to children in our community suffering from poverty, abuse, neglect and illness. We strive to increase social action by promoting adult and youth volunteerism."
  • Family Services of Westchester (Purchase hq, White Plains, Katonah, Hastings-on-Hudson, Mount Vernon, Pelham, Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, White Plains, Yonkers): "provides mental health and social services that strengthen and support families, children and individuals at every stage of their lives."
  • Harrison Educational Foundation: "The Harrison Educational Foundation encourages excellence in education by generating and distributing private funds for curriculum enrichment programs to benefit the students of the Harrison Central School District. HEF seeks to achieve its goals by providing opportunities for creative teaching and learning experiences and by encouraging community and district partnerships."
  • Harrison Public Library Foundation: The Library: "The purpose of the Harrison Public Library is to be the center of information and discovery within our community. We strive to serve our community by offering innovative programming, relevant collections, and responsive services that support lifelong learning, the joy of reading, and the free exchange of ideas in a diverse, inclusive environment."
  • Manhattanville College (Harrison): "Our university mission statement prioritizes a holistic view of personal development, encourages a commitment to service and leadership, and emphasizes a global perspective to transform every student into an ethical and socially responsible leader."
  • Pediatric Cancer Foundation (Purchase): "Since 1970, Pediatric Cancer Foundation has been raising funds for research to support doctors and hospitals in an effort to eradicate childhood cancer."
  • Purchase College Foundation: "Purchase College, SUNY embraces its public mission by bringing together students in the liberal arts, sciences, and conservatory arts programs in a vibrant, creative community where in-depth knowledge grows from open-minded engagement, questioning boundaries, and inspiring possibility."
  • Purchase Free Library: "The goal of the Purchase Free Library is to provide services and information to its expanding and varied community of users and to work to broaden, diversify, and educate the community."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

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