Empowers first-generation college students, students of color, and those from low-income backgrounds by equipping them with skills, networks, experiences, and confidence to secure strong first jobs.
Giving Tuesday
One Day Can Make a World of Difference, Thanks to You!
On December 3, the Rutgers community will unite as part of the global Giving Tuesday movement that takes place annually after each Thanksgiving. As we have for the past few years, we’re shining a light on organizations that align with our Rutgers Values and ask that you consider supporting one or more of these great causes.
Browse the list of charitable partners to discover which best aligns with your interests. Then make the gift that’s most meaningful to you this Giving Tuesday. It’s that quick and easy!
By rallying together in a spirit of generosity, we’ll demonstrate all the great things Rutgers can accomplish in communities, the state of New Jersey, and beyond.
Access to Academic Excellence
Select among partners that increase accessibility, enhance social mobility, and improve educational equity.
Provides a positive, healing atmosphere that propels young people to build strong futures and break the cycle of violence and poverty.
Helps families achieve their full potential and build strong, healthy relationships. Workshops, mentoring, referral services, support groups, and recreational activities from I Dare to Care support families in all aspects of their lives.
Empowers youth on their journey to become community leaders by providing programs that offer a safe haven and support their educational, social, emotional, and physical growth.
Supports “opportunity youth” (young people ages 16-24 who are not in school or working) by transforming the way they are educated and prepared for postsecondary careers, learning, and life.
Empowers, cultivates, and inspires young women to succeed in every aspect of their lives. These program services are coordinated and implemented through partnerships with public middle and high schools in Camden.
Provide the support and guidance needed to make sure every child across the city of Newark can realize their full potential, and grow into confident, successful young men and women.
Building Community
Here are partners that sustain democracy and support good citizenship through meaningful acts of service.
Engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. coLAB Arts aims to create more livable, sustainable, and exciting environments through art.
As the leading anti-hunger organization in our state, the FoodBank purchases and collects food for distribution, helps people in need through SNAP application assistance, reaches communities with limited resources through mobile pantries, and encourages others to get involved.
Harnesses the power of food to break the cycle of poverty, alleviate hunger, and change lives. Elijah’s Promise serves over 375,000 free meals a year throughout central New Jersey.
Driven social revitalization for the city of New Brunswick by taking on the issues that matter most to city residents and families. All New Brunswick residents have the opportunity for a high quality of life; including but not limited to, education, employment, food, health, housing, and safety.
Almost 20 years ago The Reformed Church of Highland Park created RCHP-Affordable Housing Corporation (501c3 non-profit) for the purposes of building affordable homes for vulnerable New Jersey residents. Over the years RCHP-AHC has grown to include programs that serve the poor, refugees, immigrants, re-entering citizens, victims of trafficking, unaccompanied minors, and persons with serious and persistent mental health issues.
Helps address food insecurity and homelessness for a variety of groups in the community. In addition, assists with emergency housing, placing those in need in a motel for short stays to allow time to make long term arrangements.
Serves 50,000 Newark and Essex County residents annually as the state’s largest Latinx-led organization. La Casa de Don Pedro programs operate under three central pillars: early childhood, healthy homes, and community empowerment.
Supports performance training for local kids, educational initiatives for New Jersey schools, and free arts events throughout the city of Newark.
Encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Engages citizens and decision-makers in the protection of our watershed and beyond through science, education, land preservation, and advocacy.
Commitment to the Common Good
Pick from five partners that improve lives by promoting innovative health research, treatment, and education.
Lightens the burden, maintains normalcy, and improves quality of life for families whose children are facing cancer, sickle cell, and other serious health challenges.
Provides grief counseling support services to families struggling to grapple with perinatal and neonatal loss.
Helps children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer by funding treatment and research. Kier’s Kidz aims to find cures for rare pediatric cancers like rhabdomyosarcoma, which took Kiersten Hickman-Perfetti’s life at age 22.
Seeks to create a world without Alzheimer’s disease. All funds raised will support Alzheimer’s and dementia research and help bring awareness of this horrific disease.
Advances maternal health awareness. The foundation believes that expecting parents deserve equal education on the risks associated with the mother as well as the child.
Helps individuals living with spinal cord injury and their families by supporting quality of life initiatives and emerging therapies that will lead to cures. Launched in 2013 by former Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, Team LeGrand is a fundraising arm of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.