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18 Nonprofits In The Rivertowns To Support This Holiday Season

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

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RIVERTOWNS, NY — If you’re like many of your neighbors in the Rivertowns, 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 Rivertowns.

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Here are 18 local nonprofits to consider getting behind on Giving Tuesday:

  • Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry: "Feeding those in need in Westchester County, NY, through charitable donations."
  • Dobbs Ferry Schools Foundation: "committed to enhancing the educational experience in our community... we aim to provide financial resources that exceed what the district budget can offer."
  • Family Service Society of Yonkers: "to be the premier provider of human services through a range of programs focusing on diverse family supports, guardianship, education and advocacy for individuals and families, which will enhance their quality of life."
  • 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."
  • Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library: "enhances the Library’s ability to provide outstanding programming, cutting-edge technology, and vibrant meeting places that best serve our diverse community. We achieve our mission through fundraising, advocacy, and community partnership."
  • Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library: "provide support for the library through our advocacy, awareness, and fundraising work."
  • Friends of the Hastings Public Library: "supports enhanced Library services and facilities for the benefit of Library patrons... supports its work by raising money through an annual membership appeal,used book sales, and other fundraising activities."
  • Friends of the Irvington Public Library: Library: "We serve as the public library and a community resource for our area. We offer museum passes, ebooks, audiobooks, DVDs, music to borrow or keep, online learning and research, books, librarian-assisted access to our local history collection, and archived articles from the Irvington Gazette. Come enjoy free programs: music, theater, informational workshops, children’s story times and programs, teen/tween events, and book clubs. Monthly gallery exhibits, as are our programs, are free to the public. We also serve as a meeting space for community groups. Additionally, the Library is responsible for the unique Tiffany Reading Room, which is located near the Library."
  • Gigi's Playhouse (Ardsley): "To change the way the world views Down syndrome and to send a global message of acceptance for all."
  • Hastings Education Foundation: "purpose is to provide funding for enrichment and enhancement of the Hastings Public Schools in Hastings-on-Hudson."
  • Irvington Education Foundation: "The Irvington Education Foundation is an expression of our community’s commitment to our children’s education. The IEF ensures Irvington schools’ classrooms are not only academically rigorous, but also that our curriculum stretches beyond the district’s budget to provide innovative, experiential learning opportunities. IEF programs transport students from everyday instruction to engaging moments that spark curiosity and expand learning."
  • 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."
  • Sister to Sister International (Yonkers): "links women, girls and families of African descent globally, to the resources that connect, advance and strengthen them. We do this through advocacy, education and the promotion of African culture."
  • UNA-USA Westchester (Hastings-on-Hudson): "We are dedicated to educating, inspiring and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, strengthening the United Nations system, promoting constructive United States leadership in that system and achieving the goals of the United Nations Charter."
  • Westhab, Inc. (Yonkers): "Building Communities. Changing Lives. Transforming communities by developing high-quality affordable housing and delivering the services people and neighborhoods need to thrive."
  • Yonkers Family YMCA: "The Yonkers Family YMCA is committed to diversity and inclusion for all. We are focused on uplifting our community through the positive development of youth, promotion of healthy living and fulfilling our social responsibility. We believe in social justice and are guided by a strong spiritual foundation. We work globally and locally for the overall success of our community."
  • Yonkers Partners in Education: "YPIE partners with students to ensure they are ready for, enroll in, and complete college. We confront the challenges of low-income, urban school districts by providing families with equitable access to the critical tools and services necessary for college success. "
  • Yonkers Public Schools Foundation for Education: "The Yonkers Public Schools Foundation for Education, with its fundraising efforts and donors’ commitments, identifies programs that impact teaching and learning in the classroom and beyond. The Foundation fosters equity and access and expands opportunities in all areas to address the diverse needs of all Yonkers Public Schools students."

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