5 Yardley Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

YARDLEY, PA — If you’re like many of your Yardley 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 Yardley area.

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

1. The Gather Place—The Gather Place preserves and promotes Black History in Yardley. The old A.M.E. Church on South Canal Street which was built in 1877 is now a museum.
2. AOY Arts Center —Artists of Yardley, founded in 2004, is a non-profit organization that fosters creativity in the community. Initially focused on local artists, it expanded to support young artists and the wider community. Now known as AOY Art Center, they found a center on Patterson Farm in 2010.
3. Yardley Historical Association —The Colonial Yardley Historical Association was formed in 1964 after interest in preserving the community’s history was stimulated by a 1963 “Canal Days” celebration. In 1970, the word “colonial” was dropped and the organization adopted “Yardley Historical Association, Inc.” as its official name.
4. Friends of Lake Afton —The Friends of Lake Afton (FOLA) is a civic non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to restore, improve, protect, and maintain Lake Afton and the public areas surrounding the lake for all to enjoy.
5. Pennsbury Manor—Pennsbury Manor is a reconstruction of William Penn’s country estate set on 43 picturesque acres along the Delaware River in Morrisville. As the only site in the nation dedicated to preserving the historical significance of William Penn, Pennsbury Manor is here to bring the past into the present by telling the stories of the colonists, servants, enslaved people, and Native Americans who lived on this land.