5 Fredericksburg Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — If you’re like many of your Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg area.

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

1. Fredericksburg Cooperative Preschool provides a developmentally appropriate, play-based preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds focusing on the whole child.
2. The Community Foundation provides a straightforward, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving. Our approach is simple—build a better community by making philanthropy easy.
3. The Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. aims to preserve the Fredericksburg area’s rich cultural heritage and to promote awareness o preservation issues
4. Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank is committed to fighting hunger in the Central Rappahannock Region.
5. Fredericksburg SPCA cares for the animals that end up in its shelter, helping to feed and treat them, as well as to assist them in finding a new nome.