7 Days of Giving to Support Local Nonprofits in New York City and the Tri-State Region

NEW YORK (WABC) – ‘Tis the season for giving and ABC7 is proud to launch our 7 Days of Giving campaign on Giving Tuesday.

Next week we’ll feature another New York City area nonprofit and the many ways you can get involved to help your neighbors.

Food Bank for NYC

Food Bank for New York City is the largest hunger relief organization in New York City, providing 100 million meals to New Yorkers in need each year.

An estimated 1.2 million people in NYC don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and rising costs are forcing some families to make difficult decisions about their money.

Every dollar donated can provide up to five meals for New Yorkers in need. Your donation also helps ensure our neighbors throughout the five boroughs have access to nutritious food and services.

To learn more and to donate, please visit www.foodbanknyc.org

Save the rest of the kitchen

As someone who suffered from food insecurity as a child, Robert Lee was intimately familiar with the issues of food waste and hunger facing our society. That’s why, in the summer of 2013, he founded Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) in New York City, a nonprofit organization dedicated to both preventing food waste and ending hunger.

In 2014, he left his full-time job at JP Morgan to run RLC full-time. To do this, he used the seed capital he and his co-founder Louisa Chen won in a venture competition during their senior year at NYU, as well as corporate donations from his former employer. In the decade since, RLC has expanded to nine regions and saved over 18 million pounds of surplus food.

To learn more and to donate, please visit www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org.

Women’s Rights Information Center

WRIC provides knowledge and opportunities to support individuals’ economic aspirations, self-sufficiency and emotional well-being so they can live with hope, security and dignity.

Based in the Women’s Center Building on West Palisade Avenue in Englewood, WRIC has touched thousands of lives through programs and initiatives, empowering women and giving them the tools and confidence to take control of their lives.

As women’s needs change, so does the focus of the Center’s services to reflect the ever-changing world in which we live. The staff, board of trustees, volunteers and contributors work together to innovate and create an environment where women can “feel free” to visit, get facts and help, and find someone to talk to can.’

To learn more and to donate, please visit www.womensrights.org.

Latinas on the Edge of Excellence (LOVE)

The Latinas On the Verge of Excellence (LOVE) mentoring program empowers young women to recognize their innate strengths and achieve personal and professional goals through mentorship and health education. Our focus is on mental, reproductive and physical health, as well as college and career readiness.

Since its inception, LOVE has successfully supported young Latinas and young women in general to overcome challenges related to mental and reproductive health and low academic achievement.

Over the past twelve years, 82.10% of students have attended the program weekly. More than 50% of the students we support have been participating in the program for two years or longer.

To learn more and to donate, please visit https://www.lovementoring.org.

Friends of Nurses

Since 2015, the Friends of New York City Nurse-Family Partnership has created programs that help mothers find careers that support family, foster friendships and build community. Friends is unique in the country in its partnership with NYC NFP. Friends help moms pursue family-supporting careers and achieve their goals. They provide programs that support mothers’ mental health and their children’s development, and develop new skills to support their families.

To learn more and to donate, please visit friendsofnycnfp.org.

Toys for toddlers

The Marine Corps Reserves Toys for toddlers The initiative collects new, unwrapped children’s toys and books to distribute to underprivileged children during the holiday season and beyond.

The U.S. Marine Corps and its volunteers will be busy sorting and distributing thousands of toys, games and books that will be sent to various nonprofit organizations, churches and schools throughout the New York area.

To learn more and to donate, please visit www.toysfortots.org

American Red Cross

In 2024, the climate crisis took an overwhelming toll on the people of the United States who relied on the American Red Cross for aid and care as they faced the second-highest number of billion-dollar disasters the country has ever recorded .

This year’s 24 major climate and weather events – each with more than $1 billion in damages – are surpassed only by last year’s record-breaking 28. To help, Red Cross volunteers have responded non-stop, providing shelter, food and other assistance to tens of thousands of people suffering from this year’s hurricanes, storms, floods and wildfires – while continuing to care for families still recovering from the extreme disasters of the recover in 2023.

This GivingTuesday and during the holiday season, visit redcross.org to make a financial donation or to make an appointment to donate blood or platelets. Individuals can also give away time through volunteer work.

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