5 Mount Vernon Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

MOUNT VERNON, NY — If you’re like many of your Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon.

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

• Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon: "To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens."
• 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."
• The Guidance Center of Westchester: "offers essential and lasting support to those challenged by mental illness, substance use, poverty, and homelessness. We empower our participants to become active members of their community through education, treatment, housing, and rehabilitative and vocational services."
• Mount Vernon Educational Foundation: "drives inspiration, creativity, and ambition by partnering with the school district and community to enable students to explore opportunities beyond the boundaries of the classroom."
• Westchester Community Health Center (Mount Vernon): "offers high-quality primary, preventative, and affordable health care and support services in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity and respect to improve the health and lives of adults, teens, and children in Westchester County and the Bronx, New York."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

• 100 Hispanic Women of Westchester
• 914 Cares (Armonk)
• Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center
• Bedford-Pound Ridge Women's Collective
• Better Estrogen Health Foundation (Mamaroneck)
• Bundles of Joy (Bronxville)
• Cancer Support Team (Purchase)
• Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (Katonah)
• Child Care Council of Westchester (Scarsdale)
• Children's Hope Chest (Purchase)
• Clay Art Center (Port Chester)
• Community Resource Center (Mamaroneck)
• CURE- The Coalition for Understanding Racism through Education (Larchmont/Mamaroneck)
• Emelin Theatre (Mamaroneck)
• Family Ties of Westchester (White Plains)
• Feeding Westchester (Elmsford)
• Friends of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center
• The Friends of Hilltop Hanover Farm (Yorktown Heights)
• The Friends of the Rye Nature Center (Rye)
• Friends of the Weinberg Nature Center(Scarsdale)
• Fuller Center for Housing of Greater New York City (New Rochelle)
• Gigi's Playhouse (Ardsley)
• Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson (Pleasantville)
• Girls Inc. of Westchester County (White Plains)
• Greater Mental Health of New York (Westchester/Rockland)
• Greenburgh Nature Center (Scarsdale)
• Guiding Eyes for the Blind (Yorktown Heights)
• Gullotta House (Briarcliff Manor)
• Hope Community Services (New Rochelle)
• Hope's Door (Hawthorne)
• Housing Action Council (Tarrytown)
• Hudson Valley Justice Center (White Plains, Newburgh, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie)
• Impact100 Westchester, Inc.
• Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)
• Jay Heritage Center (Rye)
• Latino U College Access (White Plains)
• Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (White Plains)
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Rye Brook)
• Manhattanville College (Harrison)
• My Brother Vinny (Yorktown Heights)
• My Sisters' Place (White Plains)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (Elmsford)
• New York Blood Center (Rye campus)
• One World Girl, Inc. (Rye Brook)
• Pace Women's Justice Center (White Plains)
• Pediatric Cancer Foundation (Purchase)
• Peekskill Arts Alliance
• The Picture House (Pelham, Bronxville)
• Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. (Elmsford)
• Pleasantville Cottage Campus
• Purchase College Foundation
• Riverkeeper (Ossining)
• Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley (Valhalla)
• Sarah Lawrence College
• ShareLove.Fund (Rye)
• The Sharing Shelf (Port Chester)
• STEM Alliance of Larchmont-Mamaroneck, Inc.
• Tuckahoe Beautification Association
• Sister to Sister International (Yonkers)
• Sustainable Westchester (Mount Kisco)
• The Trip Foundation (New Rochelle)
• UNA-USA Westchester (Hastings-on-Hudson)
• United Community Center of Westchester, Inc. (New Rochelle)
• United Hebrew of New Rochelle
• United Way of Westchester and Putnam (White Plains)
• Volunteer New York! (Tarrytown) (serves Westchester, Rockland, Putnam)
• WCLA - Choice Matters (White Plains)
• Westchester Children's Association (White Plains)
• Westchester Children's Museum (Rye)
• Westchester Jewish Community Services (White Plains)
• Westchester Land Trust (Bedford Hills)
• WJCS Center Lane (White Plains)
• Westchester Library System (Elmsford)
• Westchester Youth Alliance (Chappaqua)
• Westhab, Inc. (Yonkers)
• Women's Enterprise Development Center (White Plains)
• Women United of Westchester Social Club Inc. (Elmsford)
• Yorktown Love in Action (Yorktown Heights)