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The 2024 Giving Guide
Regional Philanthropic Opportunities
The importance of giving to those in need — and to the organizations who help others secure their basic needs — doesn’t take a holiday, and there’s no season of the year when their work is not critical, especially at a time when an uncertain economy continues to pose challenges to so many individuals and nonprofits.
Still, there’s no doubt that people think about giving more around the year-end holidays, and that’s why BusinessWest and the Healthcare News publishes its annual Giving Guide around this time: to shine a spotlight on specific community needs and show you not only how to support them, but exactly what your money and time can accomplish.
These 25 profiles of area nonprofit organizations are just a sampling
of the region’s thousands of nonprofits. These profiles are intended to educate readers about what these groups are doing to improve quality of
life for the people living and working in the 413, but also to inspire them to provide the critical support (which comes in many different forms) that these organizations and so many others desperately need.
These profiles within the Giving Guide list not only giving opportunities — everything from online donations to corporate sponsorships — but also volunteer opportunities. And it is through volunteering, as much as with a cash donation, that individuals can help a nonprofit carry out its important mission within our community.
BusinessWest and HCN launched the Giving Guide to 2011 to harness this region’s incredibly strong track record of philanthropy and support of the organizations dedicated to helping those in need. This special section is designed to inform, but also to encourage
individuals and organizations to find new and
imaginative ways to give back. We are confident
it will succeed with both of those assignments.
Joseph Bednar, Editor
John Gormally, Publisher
Kate Campiti, Associate Publisher
Go here: https://businesswest.com/blog/giving-guide-2024/ or scan the QR code to go to the 2024 Giving Guide online
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