As the season of gratitude continues, Giving Tuesday offers a meaningful moment to extend generosity beyond the Thanksgiving table. While early December brings the start of winter celebrations, it also marks a global call to support communities, uplift local organizations, and contribute to the greater good.
Giving Tuesday, observed annually on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a global movement launched in 2012 to inspire generosity and collective action. Since its inception, it has mobilized countless acts of service across youth empowerment, environmental protection, animal welfare, food security, arts access, and more. Giving Tuesday highlights the power of community, shared mission, and amplifying organizations doing meaningful work.
This year, Hera Hub is proud to spotlight six nonprofits led by members who are advancing education, healing, empowerment, creativity, and global outreach.
Livelihood creation and support for war-affected women in Sri Lanka.
Green Dreams Women empowers economically and socially disadvantaged women in Sri Lanka by providing safe spaces, comprehensive training, and sustainable opportunities for employment.
Their mission is to lift women out of poverty, foster community resilience, and promote lasting peace in Sri Lanka through the economic empowerment of women and their families.
By purchasing the beautiful handcrafted paper art, supporters are not just acquiring a unique piece—they are empowering women artisans and helping them build brighter futures. For those who would like to make an even greater impact, direct donations support the organization’s mission to help more women and families in need.
Click here to donate to Green Dreams Women this Giving Tuesday.
Leap to Success inspires women overcoming adversity to ignite their confidence and reclaim their voice to transform their lives and communities.
One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. It can be one of the most dangerous, devastating, and challenging situations for a woman to escape, and its effects have a profound impact on her long-term sense of well-being and self-trust.
Leap of Success Graduates
Leap to Success has developed powerful programs that are proven to help women heal, grow, and transform their futures and their families. These programs are available at no cost.
Through the generosity of donors, the organization has equipped thousands of women. Supporters can make a difference too.
Click here to donate to Leap of Success this Giving Tuesday.
Healing Odyssey and its retreats help women survivors move forward after cancer with coping tools and community to cultivate resilience.
Healing Odyssey’s mission is to empower women cancer survivors to be strong, hopeful, and courageous through innovative and active education and support programs.
Healing Odyssey offers a 3-day weekend retreat as its featured program. This retreat provides women cancer survivors with a roadmap for recovery. In the serene, healing environment of natural California beauty, away from everyday stress and surrounded by an unconditionally supportive community of fellow survivors and oncology professionals, participants experience a powerful series of interactive workshops and activities focused entirely on healing, recovery, and moving forward.
Your gift ensures healing continues with you, opening the door for every woman who needs this life-changing experience.
It’s hard to hold onto hate when you dance to someone else’s music—because everyone deserves to feel like they belong.
The Center for World Music is a San Diego organization fostering intercultural awareness through the world’s performing arts traditions. They create engaging educational and performance opportunities to strengthen the bonds that make us one community.
The Center for World Music promotes intercultural understanding through global music and dance education, concerts featuring renowned traditional artists, and workshops in diverse performing arts traditions. The organization also supports traditional musicians by connecting them with meaningful performance opportunities.
Your donation enables them to create opportunities for audiences young and old to learn about cultures from around the globe through the traditional performing arts.
Click here to donate to Center for World Music this Giving Tuesday.
The Keep A Breast Foundation is a breast cancer organization with a mission to reduce breast cancer risk and its impact globally through art, education, prevention and action.
Keep A Breast operates worldwide, with branches in the U.S. and Europe, plus affiliates in Mexico and Africa. Its trilingual self-check app has reached over 55,000 people and counting across the globe, while more than 10 million “i love boobies!” bracelets sold to support the foundation have helped normalize breast health advocacy since 2004.
Social impact organizations rely on individual support. Your generosity helps them reach more people worldwide with lifesaving breast health education, improving the health of current and future generations.
Click here to donate to Keep A Breast Foundation this Giving Tuesday.
Emergency Wildlife Rescue is dedicated to the protection and conservation of African wildlife through emergency wildlife rescue and response operations, anti-poaching initiatives and wildlife sanctuary support.
They exist to support and fund the ongoing efforts of wildlife veterinarians, conservationists, and wildlife sanctuaries working with limited resources across Africa.
With continued support, Emergency Wildlife Rescue is building a global community of wildlife defenders. Supporters can be part of the movement and help make more rescues, create greater impact, and contribute to a hopeful future for wildlife across the continent.
Click here to support Emergency Wildlife Rescue & Response Operations in Africa
All six organizations featured here are certified 501(c)(3) nonprofits, each creating meaningful impact in their communities and around the world.
If Giving Tuesday inspires you to take action, consider supporting one—or many—of these missions today. Your generosity creates real, lasting change.
