After Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday. It seems like the giving should be before the consuming, but nonetheless, today’s the day we can make the most of our charitable donations because many great charities have matching gifts on Giving Tuesday.
Before you become consumed with the holiday season, please take a moment to donate to your favorite early childhood charities. We’ve listed a few of our favorite early childhood charities. You will notice a theme in our list: These charities all share the common thread of helping children overcome the most challenging social and emotion effects of living in the 21st century to set them up to be resilient citizens of the future. Join us in making donations to these amazing organizations (0r your favorites) today (or any day!)
If you don’t know where to start giving, use Charity Navigator to find an organization that matches your priorities!
Bright Horizon’s Foundation for Families Bright Spaces
Bright Spaces are warm, safe, enriching spaces in homeless shelters and other agencies for children and youth to build caring relationships, heal from trauma through play, and experience the joy of childhood.
Committee for Children
Committee for Children believes that if you make a positive impact on enough kids through social-emotional learning, it can transform a community and beyond. We call it the Empathy Effect. The producers of the Second Step Curriculum, Committee for Children provides tools that help children thrive. CFC works with educators, parents, policymakers, and partner organizations to deliver research-based programs, advocate for public policies, and provide leadership in our field.
Devereux Center for Resilient Children
DCRC’s mission is to promote social and emotional development, foster resilience, and build skills for school and life success in children birth through school-age, as well as to promote the resilience of the adults who care for them. We accomplish this by doing research and producing resources for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and adults.
Dimensions Educational Research Foundation
Through it’s many services including Dimensions Education Program, Exchange Press, and Nature Explore, the Research Foundation’s mission is to inspire joy and wonder in children, educators, and communities with a heart-centered approach to early education.
Life is Good Kids Foundation Playmakers
LIGKF Playmakers program provide retreats, tools, and on-going coaching to more than 10,000 childcare professionals (that they call Playmakers) working in schools, hospitals, and social service agencies across the US and Haiti. The Playmakers program helps these professionals transform their care settings into optimal environments for kids to learn, heal, and thrive.
Thanks for the information. I hopre next year NAEYC affiliates are included on this list. As the President of the District of Columbia Association for the Education of Young Children (DCAEYC) Board of Directors, I am aware of the effort it takes to provide our members with high quality services, events and professional development opportunities to fulfill out mission to make sure all young children in our nation’s capitol have the foundation they need to reach their full potential.
Hi Robert, You make a great case! Of course I love the NAEYC affiliates, especially the DMV organizations because I am from the DC metro area! This year I tried to focus on the themes of trauma informed care, social emotional development, and nature. In general, I am hoping to draw attention to thinking about early childhood education organizations as worthy causes when members of our tribe reach into their pockets to give during the holiday season. Thanks for chiming in on the discussion!