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11 New Rochelle Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

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

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NEW ROCHELLE, NY — If you’re like many of your New Rochelle 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 New Rochelle.

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Here are 11 local nonprofits to consider getting behind on Giving Tuesday:

  • Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle: "To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Our club provides a safe place to learn and grow; ongoing relationships with caring adult professionals; life-enhancing programs and character development experiences; and hope and opportunity."
  • Fuller Center for Housing of Greater New York City (New Rochelle): "promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships with individuals and organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need throughout the New York Metropolitan Area."
  • Grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden/Lincoln Park Conservancy: "Our mission is to make locally-grown, pesticide-free organic vegetables accessible to those who are food insecure. One in three families in Westchester are food insecure. We have a brand new mobile vegetable market truck that brings vegetables from the farm to the homes of our residents."
  • Hope Community Services (New Rochelle): provides "a warm, inviting atmosphere of personal and respectful service to the disadvantaged of this community; for the needs of body, mind, heart and spirit."
  • Humane Society of Westchester (New Rochelle): "our goal is to create a living environment that is not just a shelter, but a transitional home for stray, lost, abandoned, injured, and abused animals, until they can ultimately be placed in loving permanent homes. Through promotion of successful pet adoption, animal population control, and public education of animal welfare issues, we advance our belief that pet ownership is a lifetime commitment."
  • Meals on Wheels of New Rochelle: "In New Rochelle, Meals-on-Wheels is available to any qualified homebound person, regardless of age or income for as long as needed. This program serves people who require prepared meals due to permanent or temporary frailty, illness or disability thus enabling them to remain in their own homes. In addition to bringing nourishment, Meals-on-Wheels volunteers also deliver a reassuring daily 'check-in' on clients. Changes in a client's health or needs are followed up on by Meals-on-Wheels staff. When appropriate, referrals to family, physician, or community service organizations are made."
  • New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence: supports the school system and its student body through advancing equity, excellence and inspiring all public school students.
  • New Rochelle Public Library Foundation: raises resources and provides advocacy to keep the library vibrant, up-to-date, and able to serve the diverse needs of the community
  • The Trip Foundation (New Rochelle): "If we expose underrepresented high school students to a world beyond their own through educational travel, introducing them to different cultures, people and languages unlike their own, then they will see the world–and themselves–through a new lens. And as a result, acquire the confidence to become active participants in it."
  • YMCA New Rochelle: "family-oriented community service organization which welcomes all people and promotes positive values through programs that build spirit, mind, and body."
  • United Community Center of Westchester, Inc. (New Rochelle): "purpose of providing quality social, economic, and community development services to those who face financial, educational, health, language, or cultural barriers to realizing their dreams."

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