Nonprofit Westchester Urges Residents to Participate in #GivingTuesday

The following press release is from Nonprofit Westchester:

Today, Nonprofit Westchester (NPW) is encouraging community residents to “give” locally as part of their #GivingTuesday campaign in the county in partnership with The Journal News and lohud. Charities, families, businesses, community centers and students from around the world are coming together today for a common purpose: to celebrate generosity by donating money and time to charities.

“Today is the day! We had Black Friday and Cyber Monday for shopping; now we have #GivingTuesday for giving back. It was important for us to bring this global movement here to Westchester, where there are many nonprofits that provide needed services to our local community,” said Joanna Straub, NPW Executive Director. “We are pleased that The Journal News and lohud recognize the need to give locally and we look forward to working with them to raise needed support for nonprofits in Westchester and the surrounding communities this year.”

Since October NPW’s nonprofit members used social media as a platform to spread information on how the community can donate to their organizations on #GivingTuesday. In addition, The Journal News and lohud spotlighted the work and the needs of local nonprofit groups in a campaign called “Give Where You Live.” People are encouraged to mark the start of the holiday season today by making a donation to a charity.

To find out where to donate, visit http://data.lohud.com/lohudcares/. For more information about Nonprofit Westchester and the #GivingTuesday campaign, call (914)-332-6NPW (6679) or visit http://www.npwestchester.org/.

Nonprofit Westchester

Nonprofit Westchester (NPW) provides the nonprofit sector with a single unified voice for the role it plays in the economic vitality and sustainability of the county, focusing on sharing resources, connections, and information to strengthen Westchester in partnership with the for-profit and government sectors. The organization represents nearly 100 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in the county under a cooperative mission to strengthen the impact, capacity and visibility of the nonprofit sector for a more just and caring community. In 2014, NPW released a study done in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies called “Westchester County Nonprofits: A Major Economic Engine,” which concluded that nonprofits are a multi-billion dollar industry and make up the largest employment sector in Westchester County. For more information, visit www.npwestchester.org.

Photo: Joanna Straub, NPW Executive Director.