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9 Port Chester Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

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

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PORT CHESTER, NY — If you’re like many of your Port Chester 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 Port Chester.

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

  • Carver Center (Port Chester): "Port Chester Carver Center helps our community thrive through programs that nourish, educate, and empower."
  • Clay Art Center (Port Chester): "Clay Art Center is dedicated to education, creativity, and community engagement in a diverse and inclusive space for ceramic studio practice, exhibitions, personal growth, and professional development."
  • Don Bosco Community Center (Port Chester): "the Center aims to help break the cycle of poverty through education and food security, enabling all people, especially the young, to reach their fullest potential."
  • 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."
  • Friends of the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library: "dedicated to supporting the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library. The Friends accomplish this by promoting public involvement in the Library and by raising money primarily through its membership drive."
  • Meals on Main Street (Port Chester): "We want to eliminate food insecurity wherever we find it and provide access for all in need."
  • 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."
  • The Sharing Shelf (Port Chester): "The Sharing Shelf addresses clothing insecurity and meets the basic material needs of children and teens in Westchester County, bringing dignity and respect, so they can thrive. We are committed to the whole child, from birth through age 19, and provide each child we serve with a week’s worth of seasonally appropriate clothing as well as essentials including diapers for infants and toddlers, toiletry kits, period products, new socks, new underwear, and school supplies."
  • Tamarack Tower Foundation: "provides resources, grants, and scholarships to the Port Chester school district through memberships, donations, community events, and fundraisers. Our programs are geared to benefit the children and schools of Port Chester. Every improvement we provide to the school district, students or teachers, enhances the overall educational system and its image."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

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