New York, NY

Charity Connect

We encourage all COM-GAP members to get involved in our community in whatever capacity they are able to: volunteering, board service, committee participation, charitable contributions, etc. We have created this list of nonprofits in Rochester to help connect people in our community with life-changing missions.

(Many organizations can be categorized by several causes, but are listed by its most noticeable cause. Please submit any corrections or new organizations using the form on this page).

Animals

  • Flatbush Cats

  • Heart of Brooklyn

  • New York Zoological Society

  • Wildlife Alliance

Arts

  • Academy of American Poets

  • Albanian Institute New York

  • Alliance for the Arts

  • Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

  • American Theatre Wing

  • Bronx Council on the Arts

  • Cinereach

  • City Harvest

  • Conjunction Arts

  • Creative Mornings

  • Eyebeam

  • Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art

  • The Glines

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

  • High 5 Tickets to the Arts

  • Independent Curators

  • International Jazz For Peace

  • The Moth

  • Movement Research

  • No Longer Empty

  • NYC Arts Cypher

  • Rhizome

  • The Voice Project

Business

  • Endeavor

  • National Independent Venue Association

  • Provident Loan Society

  • Seedco

  • tech:NYC

Children & Youth

  • Adaptive Design Association

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City

  • Boys & Girls Harbor

  • Catholic Guardian Services

  • Children of Armenia Fund

  • Children's Aid Society

  • Children's Tumor Foundation

  • Children's Orchestra Society

  • DonorsChoose

  • Foundation for Child Development

  • Friends Without a Border

  • Girls Write Now

  • Graham Windham

  • Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund

  • Ice Hockey in Harlem

  • New Yorkers For Children

  • Partnership for Drug-Free Kids

  • Play:groundNYC Practice Makes Perfect

  • Sesame Workshop

  • Streets International

  • Tech Kids Unlimited

  • Wallace Foundation

  • Youth Communication

Community

  • Citizens Crime Commission of New York City

  • City Parks Foundation

  • The Committee to Save the New York Public Library

  • The Flowers Foundations

  • Guardian Angels

  • Harold Hunter Foundation

  • HeadCount

  • Historic Districts Council

  • New York Landmarks Foundation

  • New York Communities for Change

  • New York Foundation

  • New York Restoration Project

Cultural

  • American Jewish Historical Society

  • The American-Scandinavian Foundation

  • Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute

  • Council of Turkic American Associations

  • Crown Heights Jewish Community Council

  • JewishGen

  • Japan Society (Manhattan)Jewish International Connection of New York

  • Kosciuszko Foundation Mekong NYC

  • Muslim Urban Professionals

  • Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America

  • StoryCorps

  • Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

Education

  • A Better Chance

  • Achieving Leadership's Purpose, Inc

  • Advantage Testing Foundation

  • AHRC New York City

  • Chalkbeat

  • Cultural Vistas

  • Filmmakers Without Borders

  • Let's Get Ready

  • The New Teacher Project

  • NPower (USA)

  • Powering Potential

  • PublicolorTED

Environmental

  • Central Park Conservancy

  • The Climate Mobilization

  • Environmental Defense Fund

  • Gowanus Canal Conservancy

  • Overbrook Foundation Project EVIE

  • Rainforest Alliance

  • Safe Water Network

  • Transportation Alternatives

Health

  • The Alliance for Positive Change

  • Alzheimer's Foundation of America

  • Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

  • Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

  • Charity: Water

  • Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

  • Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation

  • Fly for MS

  • Food Allergy Initiative

  • The Michael J. Fox Foundation

  • JDRF

  • John A. Hartford Foundation

  • Lighthouse Guild

  • National Kidney Foundation

  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society

  • Planned Parenthood

  • Red Hot Organization

  • The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation

  • Village Care of New York

  • Visual AIDS

Human Services

  • Advancing Human Rights

  • American Civil Liberties Union

  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

  • The Arc New York

  • Arcus Foundation

  • Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

  • Beauty for Freedom

  • The Bronx Freedom Fund

  • BronxWorks

  • Center for Court Innovation

  • Center for Popular Democracy

  • Crisis Text Line

  • The Doe Fund

  • East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

  • Ford Foundation

  • Freedom Fund

  • HeartShare Human Services of New York

  • Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen

  • Housing and Services, Inc.

  • Human Rights First

  • Human Rights Foundation

  • Innocence Project

  • The Jed Foundation

  • The Legal Aid Society

  • Life Vest Inside

  • New York African Society for Mutual Relief

  • New York City Coalition Against Hunger

  • New York City Rescue Mission

  • New York Civil Liberties Union

  • PFLAG

  • Physicians for Human Rights

  • Picture the Homeless

  • Rethink Food

  • Safe Horizon

  • Safe Passage Project

  • Sanctuary for Families

  • Sylvia Rivera Law Project

  • Urban Justice Center

  • Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

  • Urban Resource Institute

  • We Are Family Foundation

Veterans

  • Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

  • Italian Welfare League

Women

  • All In Together

  • Catalyst Center for Reproductive Rights

  • Dream it. Code it. Win it.

  • Dress For Success

  • Financial Alliance for Women

  • Financial Women's Association

  • Gotham Girls Roller Derby

  • Ms. Foundation for Women

  • New York Asian Women's Center

  • Reproductive Health Access Project

  • Shining Hope for Communities