6 Scarsdale Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

SCARSDALE, NY — If you’re like many of your Scarsdale 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 Scarsdale.

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

• Child Care Council of Westchester (Scarsdale): "champions the healthy development of children, families and our community by promoting quality early care and education."
• Friends of the Scarsdale Public Library: "plays a vital role in ensuring that our local library is a dynamic and multifaceted cultural and intellectual center for all. The Friends was founded in 1946 by residents in order to work with the library board and staff in helping the library reach its 'maximum usefulness' in Scarsdale, and to this day, the members of FOSL support, advocate, and fundraise to do exactly this."
• Friends of the Weinberg Nature Center (Scarsdale): "To promote and encourage an understanding, appreciation and study of the practice of conservation and of the natural sciences and to that end to participate in and encourage the use and development of the Weinberg Nature Center and other conservation activities."
• Greenburgh Nature Center (Scarsdale): "to inspire passion, curiosity, respect, and action for our natural world."
• Impact100 Westchester, Inc. (Hartsdale): "Award high-impact, Transformational Project Grants and Core Mission Grants to nonprofits serving Westchester. Reach under-resourced populations and highlight unmet needs. Educate Impact100 members on the nonprofit sector. Provide volunteer opportunities to our members through our Hands-On Projects and Community Service Days. Raise awareness of lesser-known nonprofits within Westchester County.
• Scarsdale Foundation: "For almost 100 years, the Scarsdale Foundation has quietly but effectively helped individuals and local community organizations in need through scholarships and grants. The Scarsdale Foundation also supports a strong community by celebrating volunteerism through its annual awarding of the Scarsdale Bowl."

Here are some other nonprofits in Westchester County:

• 100 Hispanic Women of Westchester
• 914 Cares (Armonk)
• Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center
• Better Estrogen Health Foundation (Mamaroneck)
• Bundles of Joy (Bronxville)
• Cancer Support Team (Purchase)
• Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (Katonah)
• Caring for the Hungry & Homeless of Peekskill
• Children's Hope Chest (Purchase)
• Clay Art Center (Port Chester)
• Community Resource Center (Mamaroneck)
• CURE- The Coalition for Understanding Racism through Education (Larchmont/Mamaroneck)
• Emelin Theatre (Mamaroneck)
• Family Service Society of Yonkers
• Family Ties of Westchester (White Plains)
• Feeding Westchester (Elmsford)
• Friends of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center
• The Friends of Hilltop Hanover Farm (Yorktown Heights)
• The Friends of the Rye Nature Center (Rye)
• Fuller Center for Housing of Greater New York City (New Rochelle)
• Gigi's Playhouse (Ardsley)
• Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson (Pleasantville)
• Girls Inc. of Westchester County (White Plains)
• Greater Mental Health of New York (Westchester/Rockland)
• Guiding Eyes for the Blind (Yorktown Heights)
• Gullotta House (Briarcliff Manor)
• Hope Community Services (New Rochelle)
• Hope's Door (Hawthorne)
• Housing Action Council (Tarrytown)
• Hudson Valley Justice Center (White Plains, Newburgh, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie)
• Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville)
• Jay Heritage Center (Rye)
• Latino U College Access (White Plains)
• Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (White Plains)
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Rye Brook)
• Manhattanville College (Harrison)
• My Brother Vinny (Yorktown Heights)
• My Sisters' Place (White Plains)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (Elmsford)
• New York Blood Center (Rye campus)
• One World Girl, Inc. (Rye Brook)
• Pace Women's Justice Center (White Plains)
• Pediatric Cancer Foundation (Purchase)
• Peekskill Arts Alliance
• The Picture House (Pelham, Bronxville)
• Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. (Elmsford)
• Pleasantville Cottage Campus
• Purchase College Foundation
• Riverkeeper (Ossining)
• Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley (Valhalla)
• Sarah Lawrence College
• ShareLove.Fund (Rye)
• The Sharing Shelf (Port Chester)
• STEM Alliance of Larchmont-Mamaroneck, Inc.
• Tuckahoe Beautification Association
• Sister to Sister International (Yonkers)
• Sustainable Westchester (Mount Kisco)
• The Trip Foundation (New Rochelle)
• UNA-USA Westchester (Hastings-on-Hudson)
• United Community Center of Westchester, Inc. (New Rochelle)
• United Hebrew of New Rochelle
• United Way of Westchester and Putnam (White Plains)
• Volunteer New York! (Tarrytown) (serves Westchester, Rockland, Putnam)
• WCLA - Choice Matters (White Plains)
• Westchester Children's Association (White Plains)
• Westchester Children's Museum (Rye)
• Westchester Community Health Center (Mount Vernon)
• Westchester Jewish Community Services (White Plains)
• Westchester Land Trust (Bedford Hills)
• WJCS Center Lane (White Plains)
• Westchester Library System (Elmsford)
• Westchester Youth Alliance (Chappaqua)
• Westhab, Inc. (Yonkers)
• Women's Enterprise Development Center (White Plains)
• Women United of Westchester Social Club Inc. (Elmsford)
• Yorktown Love in Action (Yorktown Heights)