Thank you for visiting to support our local nonprofits on Giving Tuesday!
Simply scroll through the participating organizations, click on the “Give Now” button for that organization, and make your donation. Organizations in the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan service area (Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle Counties) are listed first. For organizations in our affiliate regions, please continue scrolling down.
Jump to our Affiliate Foundations:
Iosco County Community Foundation
North Central Michigan Community Foundation (Crawford, Ogemaw and Oscoda Counties)
Straits Area Community Foundation (Cheboygan County and Mackinaw City)
If you would like to donate to a fund within the Community Foundation today, visit our regular giving page.
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Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan Funds
Renovations after the 2020 fire have begun, but we need your help to successfully reopen and produce live theatre again after three years of being closed. Your gift will help us ensure that the show will go on!
We work to improve quality of life in the Hubbard Lake area. Your donation today will go toward the construction of our new library and community center!
Help us meet our goal of getting students' hands in the dirt, feet in the water, and hearts in the community through place-based stewardship education. Your gift helps support our hands-on Great Lakes and natural resource learning!
Your support today will help our no-kill shelter fund vaccinations, testing, spay and neuters, and specialized care for the most vulnerable dogs and cats in northeast MI.
Our animal rescue is committed to our goal of rescuing from kill shelters across our nation. Your donation helps us save animals by providing fosters, vetting and finding them loving homes.
Your donation supports two of our innovative creative advancement programs, and our growing Mental Health awareness initiative!
Be a change-maker! Your donation to the Community Impact Endowment Fund at CFNEM will provide grants FOREVER in northeast Michigan, allowing us to address issues locally for generations to come - even as those needs evolve!
Your donation today helps us ensure everyone in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency, Oscoda and Presque Isle Counties have a decent place to live. Please support our home building projects and critical home repair programs!
Get a book into a young child's hands! Your gift supports our efforts to bring the Dolly Parton Imagination Library to all children ages 0-5 in Presque Isle County.
Our annual Bay to Beacon road race connects 2 state parks and supports community organizations championing environmental stewardship and mental health awareness. Help us get our racecourse officially certified!
We are a treatment center serving individuals with substance use disorders. Your gift helps us to build a brand-new facility to better offer our services of inpatient/outpatient treatment, detoxification, case management, and peer coaching services.
We help people with cancer. A common barrier to accepting treatment is simply getting to appointments. Rides save lives! Your gift supports our neighbors through their cancer journey.
Your gift today will help us build a new interactive History Exhibit providing hands-on, family friendly experiences using 21st-century museum design and technologies while chronicling 11 unique time periods through history.
We provide a wide array of services to rural northeast MI communities. To overcome staffing challenges, we encourage continuous learning and certification achievement. Your gift supports our staff's professional development!
Your gift makes it possible for EVERY student, no matter their challenges, to get high-quality education right here in northeast Michigan through scholarships, food assistance and emergency funds.
Please help us as we educate and enable the community to trap, neuter, and return free-roaming cats to control their numbers. Your gift helps us, especially with older populations who are inundated with "drop off" cats, to provide training, live traps, and low-cost spay/neuter services.
Make a gift that supports cultural and community outreach in Alcona County! Your gift helps WXTF-LP 97.9 FM run educational programming, music, and local news 7 days a week!
Help us enrich the quality of life in northeast Michigan through hands-on participation and appreciation for the arts. The Loft's efforts work toward attaining Arts for Everyone!
Your support is vital to helping Friends of TBNMS provide free educational placed-based experiences to youth and educators; keep the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center free and open year round; attract visitors, researchers and new partners; host community events; and protect the rich maritime history of the Great Lakes and ocean.
NEMCSA provides support to hardworking individuals and families to help reach their fullest potential. Your gift helps us meet immediate client needs that are unallowable through other resources.
Alpena and the region have been reinvigorated! Your gift supports the arts in our community to see that momentum become ever more present and accessible to everyone through Ice Fest, art galleries, sculptures, and more.
The Old and New Presque Isle Lighthouses bring the history of our region to life! You can help us preserve them for future generations to enjoy. Your donation supports restoration and repair of these historic beacons.
Your gift supports our free and confidential services to survivors of sexual assault, stalking, domestic violence and dating violence across a 5-county area. We also provide advocacy assistance and self-identified needs.
Help us enhance our trails, fight invasive species, and promote public education on Negwegon State Park's cultural and natural features, ensuring the park remains a natural refuge for generations to come.
Support issues of importance to women of northeast Michigan! As the fund grows, the size and number of grants also grow, making a lasting impact on the quality of life for women in our region.
We house, rehabilitate, and adopt out lost and abandoned pets in Alcona County. Your gift helps with the expenses of spaying and neutering animals, controlling the unwanted animal population, and making these pets more adoptable.
Help us expand our services outside of our building to meet our community where they are! We are raising $7,000 to purchase a book bike that will allow us to travel throughout Alpena County and reach more people.
Our group of musicians and artists encourage a fun, family-friendly atmosphere in Downtown Alpena at our summer Friday evening performances. Your gift helps us pay our performers!
With your generosity, youth can find safety and encouragement. Your gift provides a "second home" for children and teens where they can thrive with a healthy meal, meaningful programs that build confidence, tutoring, volunteering, and mentoring.
Help us maintain and restore the oldest maritime historic site in Alpena County! Your gift will be used to build a stable docking system for boaters to access the island and the trails we are developing.
Help us ensure that every senior over 60 can be offered home delivered and/or congregate meals. We provide over 65,000 meals every year in Alpena County, and your gift helps us do more!
Help us reduce the number of unwanted animals in our area. We are currently working on a surgery suite at our building to provide low-cost spay/neuter clinics for our community.
Our school has grown from 80 students to 130! Your donation will help us enhance our education and activities with playground equipment and STEM supplies for our students.
Support children who are victims of abuse. Our child-focused and child-friendly facility's goal is to protect children during the investigation, management and prosecution of abuse cases.
Our Christian shelter strives to help people regain control of their lives when crisis strikes. We walk with those in need as they work to move forward and become proud, productive members of our community.
We rehabilitate injured and orphaned wild birds! A need for local bird rehab brought in over 150 birds in 7 months. Your gift will help us with cages for larger birds like eagles and hawks.
Iosco County Community Foundation Funds
Help us create solutions to economic development barriers in Iosco County! Your donation supports our mission-based initiatives on childcare, tourism, small business markets, high-speed internet, and the AuSable River dams environmental concerns.
With your support, we can continue providing interesting, educational, entertaining events at our State Park/Lighthouse like Tuesdays at the Lighthouse, Harvest Festival, and National Lighthouse Day!
We pride ourselves on providing the highest level of care and compassion for the animals in our shelter. Your gift help us provide vaccines, formula, food, vet care and supplies for our furry friends.
Be a change-maker! Your donation to the Iosco County Community Improvement Fund will provide grants FOREVER in Iosco County, addressing issues locally for generations to come!
Our small group of dedicated volunteers needs your help! Your donation supports our conservation and community programs that improve water quality, protect the land and water habitats, and remove invasive species.
Help us support local disadvantaged women and children! Your donation will provide food, warm clothes, and gifts for children during the holidays.
The mission of the Pregnancy Center is to save the lives of the unborn. Funds would be used to accomplish this through educational materials that teach valid pregnancy and parenting choices and life skills in a loving, non-judgmental manner.
Straits Area Community Foundation Funds
Your gift today helps us support our housing programs that offer a hand-up to community members in need of housing services.
Your donation will support our No Cancer Patient Left Behind program that will help Oncology patients from our Cheboygan and Mackinaw City clinics with travel assistance for treatments outside our area.
Your donation to the Straits Area Community Needs Fund at SACF will provide grants FOREVER in Cheboygan County and Mackinaw City for generations to come!
Our center provides meals, activities, and social interaction for our area's senior citizens. Your donation today helps us improve our aging kitchen facilities and add programs to enhance senior living.
Your donation supports our library and its new programs that connect our patrons through education, entertainment, and enrichment. Help us inspire learning, spark creativity, and foster connections for a stronger, more vibrant community!
Our club supports local schools, library, the Diane Peppler Resource Center, and historical restoration projects. Your gift today supports a lot in the Mackinaw area!
Our historical village helps us share our local history with countless visitors each year. Your donation will help us get new, interpretive signage to enhance visitors' experiences.
Help animals in the Cheboygan area! Your gift today helps with supplies and veterinary bills for our new TNR (trap, neuter, return) program, which is having great success!
North Central Michigan Community Foundation Funds
Your gift helps maintain and improve the almost century-old roadside park that houses whitetail deer, a playground area, and picnic spot enjoyed by all ages. Help us put a new roof on the meeting hall and feed the deer!
We help seniors remain healthy and independent. Your gift supports our Meals on Wheels program, which is more important than ever to our most at-risk clients who need to remain connected and well-nourished!
Help us provide free health care to residents in Ogemaw and surrounding counties who lack health insurance and meet income guidelines. Your gift helps us purchase medical supplies, prescriptions, and gas cards.
We have grown to serve 15 counties! Your gift helps us provide quilts, pillowcases, duffel bags and other supplies for foster children to help them through an unsettling time.
Your donation helps us assist victims of childhood abuse. We primarily serve victims of sexual abuse, assisting in the forensic interview process, family advocacy, offering trauma-informed therapies and specialized medical care.
Help us protect and preserve documents and historical artifacts of Ogemaw County! Your donation supports fixing a leaking wall, replacement of a water main, and new drywall and paint for our stairs.
Your donation helps us provide a safe, fun place to connect with animals and nature! Our Ranch uses horses and our facility to offer free programs to people, especially kids, to experience a healing, fun time.
Your gift today helps us provide animals with care, compassion, and forever homes!
Be a change-maker and help NCMCF provide grants FOREVER in Crawford, Ogemaw and Oscoda Counties for generations to come! Donations will be used equally for all 3 counties.
We provide financial assistance to those in need for utilities, medical bills, housing/rent, essential car repairs, and more, by utilizing our thrift store income. Your gift helps us in greater outreach to local families in need.
Food insecurity is rapidly increasing in Crawford County with the highest number of families needing help this year. Your donation helps us serve anyone in need, regardless of age or income.
We serve homeless women and children. We offer shelter, food, support, guidance, and support at no cost to our guests. Help us end homelessness, one guest at a time!
We support foster families and children with clothing, shoes, food, toys, and more! Your gift today helps ease the financial burden for foster families, and helps children as they join their foster families.
Your donation will help us extend our outreach and build our endowment fund to further enable West Branch-Rose City students to achieve their potential.
Your donation will help our shelter take in strays, surrenders, and even transfer animals from other in-state shelters or rescues. Your gift helps us find loving and permanent homes for the animals in our care by providing for vet care and supplies.
We bought a place of our own this year, and opened our Cat Cafe - all to help us take in and help more animals. Your gift today truly saves lives!