5 McLean Nonprofits To Support This Holiday Season

MCLEAN, VA — If you’re like many of your McLean 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 McLean area.

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

1. Real Food For Kids provides children across the DMV with the food they need to grow strong, stay focused in school, and build a healthy future.
2. Children's Fund helps children and families suffering from extreme poverty worldwide.
3. McLean Community Foundationencourages philanthropy in McLean by supporting vital projects that make a difference in the lives of the citizens of greater McLean.
4. McLean Project for the Arts exhibits the work of emerging and established artists from the mid-Atlantic region.
5. Share of McLean works to positively impact the lives of neighbors in need.