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11 Rye Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

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

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RYE, NY — If you’re like many of your Rye 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 Rye.

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

  • The Friends of the Rye Nature Center (Rye): "offers programs to people of all ages and abilities. We encourage conservation, provide environmental education, and support our community’s access to nature."
  • Jay Heritage Center (Rye): "is dedicated to transforming the 23-acre Jay Estate into a vibrant educational campus, hosting innovative and inclusive programs about American History, Historic Preservation, Social Justice, and Environmental Stewardship."
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Rye Brook): "the world's largest voluntary (nonprofit) health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services."
  • New York Blood Center (Rye campus): "has proudly served our community since 1964 as one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers, providing the highest quality blood and stem cell products and related medical and consultative services to hospitals and patients."
  • One World Girl, Inc. (Rye Brook): "working to equip girls to become changemakers through arts-based learning that emphasizes the power of diversity and taking action to create positive, lasting change."
  • Rye Arts Center: "Our mission is to inspire life-long enthusiasm and participation in the arts through best-in-class artistic offerings and educational programs. We strive to have a positive impact on our local communities by bringing attention to the importance of the arts, creating a destination for diverse voices, and by providing meaningful artistic opportunities."
  • Rye Free Reading Room: "To serve as a dynamic gathering place and center for lifelong learning for Rye residents of all ages and interests."
  • Rye Fund for Education: "We’re dedicated to ensuring that Rye City Schools continue to provide the very best education for our children."
  • Rye YMCA: "dedicated to youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility."
  • ShareLove.Fund (Rye): "Empowers women & youth through yoga."
  • Westchester Children's Museum (Rye): "To be a vibrant, interactive learning space providing children, families and school groups the opportunity to nurture curiosity, enhance knowledge and ignite imagination through creative hands-on exploration. The museum is committed to broadening knowledge of the arts and sciences, the environment, multiculturalism, and the local and global communities in an educational and recreational atmosphere."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

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