Charity
We can all count our collective blessings from the challenges of 2020, and there’s no time like the present to give back! From health care and hunger to education and employment, Southwest Florida nonprofit organizations are asking for your support this holiday season.
Compassionate Care
As a nonprofit organization, Avow relies on community support to help provide compassionate end-of-life care and grief support to Collier County residents and their families. All donations provide the needed support to fund patient care and ancillary programs for terminal patients including music therapy, massage therapy, pet therapy, and more!
Keep a Child Out of Foster Care
On average, it costs taxpayers $30,000/year per child for foster care, but for only $1,200/year, you can sponsor a temporary loving home for a child through Better Together. 96% of hosted children never end up in foster care.
Ramp Up for Neighbors in Need
Donate to Builders Care to help an elderly or disabled homeowner and their family by underwriting a life-changing wheelchair ramp to more safely enter and exit their home.
Plant Seeds of Humanity
A tax-deductible donation to Charity for Change supports its mission to prevent bullying and violence, as well as instill empathy and a giving spirit! Help us show charity and giving this holiday season by contributing a tax-deductible donation today!
The Gift of Education Brings Future Success
Every child deserves a chance to be successful. Your donation to Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc. will help a local underprivileged child receive a high-quality infant-VPK education, preparing them with the social and academic skills they need to thrive.
Nutritious Home-Delivered Meals for Seniors
Help Community Cooperative provide meals for a homebound senior for an entire month delivered by Meals on Wheels. These friendly deliveries also serve as important security checks for our homebound neighbors who cannot shop or cook for themselves.
Jobs for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Through DHHC, provide a Deaf client with a resume–writing workshop, mock interview practice and a qualified interpreter for job interviews, all of the tools necessary to decrease the 40% unemployment rate in the Deaf community.
Power Suits to Empower Women
Give confidence by outfitting a job seeker with professional interview attire to secure stable employment through Dress for Success.
Create Endless Possibilities
Sponsor two weeks of full-day, high-quality Early Childhood Education for an Immokalee student under the age of 5 at Guadalupe Center.
Shop. Donate. Volunteer.
Make a difference for students in Immokalee by shopping at or donating to the Guadalupe Resale Shop in Naples! Your contribution supports Guadalupe Center’s mission to break the cycle of poverty through education in Immokalee.
Impact Young Lives
The Guardian ad Litem Foundation works tirelessly to provide elements of normalcy to the children it serves. Thanks to a generous matching grant opportunity from PNC Bank, every gift made now through the end of 2020 will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000!
Enhance Your Home & Empower Families
Habitat for Humanity’s four Lee County ReStores have new furniture and home-goods finds every day. Enhance your home before a family holiday get-together, or find a unique gift for a loved one’s home! Every dollar helps with Habitat for Humanity’s mission of building homes and empowering families.
Serving the Underserved
Healthcare Network provides comprehensive and affordable primary care services to people of all ages, regardless of income or insurance status. Your donation will ensure families in underserved communities will have their medical, dental and behavioral health needs met.
The Gift of More Hope
As a not-for-profit with more than 40 years of experience caring for our community, Hope Hospice believes everyone deserves comfort, dignity and peace throughout the end-of-life journey. Your gift provides More Hope to families during the challenges of serious illness.
Inspire Developing Minds
The gift of education and learning starts at The IMAG! The IMAG History & Science Center offers a range of annual memberships that include free year-round admission, discounts on café purchases, camps, educational programs, birthday parties and more!
Tees for Kids’ Mental Health
Wear your advocacy and support Kids’ Minds Matter’s mission by purchasing a pre-shrunk cotton T-shirt. Three styles are available, and each sale will help enhance mental health services for an estimated 46,000 children in need of care.
Home for the Holidays
We all want to be home for the holidays, especially children who have been spending their days in the hospital. In fact, going home for is their greatest wish. Your gift to Golisano Children’s Hospital will help make their wishes come true.
Give Help, Give Hope
NAMI Collier County helps over 16,000 SWFL residents every year, free of charge. This holiday season, help them continue to provide support, education and advocacy to individuals and families affected by serious mental illnesses by making a tax-deductible contribution that will be a gift that keeps on giving for months to come.
Nothing Stops Education
Help Pace Center for Girls, Lee County provide one year of wireless internet for a Pace girl participating in distance learning (includes membership in Pace’s “Believing in Girls” donor society).
The Gift of Sight
A special initiative of SWFL Children’s Charities, Inc., you can help give children the gift of sight by underwriting the cost of an ultrasound scanner for pediatric ophthalmology at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida.