Sachem Area Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

SACHEM, NY — If you’re like many of your Sachem area 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 the Sachem area.

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

1. NY Cancer Foundation: Helps cancer patients and families.
2. The Ward Melville Heritage Organization: Fosters community through culture, education, history, environment, and the arts.
3. Mastic Beach Conservancy: Environmental preservation and educational programs.
4. Save-A-Pet: Animal rescue and adoption
5. Sepa Mujer Inc.: Works for equity and justice for women and girls in the immigrant community.
6. Caitlyn's Vision: Raises money and collects glasses for the visually impaired.
7. Brookhaven Town Animal Shelter Foundation: Cares for the town's strays and abandoned animals that need homes.
8. Post-Morrow Foundation: Helps preserve the hamlet of Brookhaven.
9. Lighthouse Mission: Provides mobile food pantry and youth programs.
10. Dress for Success Brookhaven: Help and professional attire for unemployed and underemployed women.
11. Lt. Michael Murphy Navy SEAL Museum: Preserves the history of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
12. The Gabby Petito Foundation: Advocates for victims of domestic violence.
13. Patchogue Arts Council: Supports art in the community.
14. Strong Island Animal Rescue: Domestic and wild animal rescue.
15. The Crime Victims Center Parents for Megan's Law: Helps victims of sexual abuse.