Give Miami Day: 10th Anniversary Sets Record
This year’s Give Miami Day was one for the record books, raising more than $33 million for South Florida nonprofits.
“Every year, more and more nonprofits are engaging,” says Loren Parra, director of public affairs at The Miami Foundation. “We benefitted over 976 [nonprofits] in the final tally.”
Food relief categories seemed especially important during this difficult year, from larger nonprofits like Feeding South Florida to smaller groups. “We are really proud of the range of sizes – the smallest and the biggest benefit,” says Parra. “And every dollar raised goes directly to the nonprofit.”
The Miami Foundation provides civic leadership, bringing people together to advance quality of life in Greater Miami.
Groups can register during the summe to participate in Give Miami Day in Nov. 2022 For more information, visit Give Miami Day.
Now celebrating its 10th year, Give Miami Day – Nov. 18 – is one of the nation's biggest 24-hour annual giving events, letting all locals become philanthropists by donating to their favorite nonprofits. Since 2012, Give Miami Day has raised more than $80 million for 1,000+ community nonprofits, and this year, they aim to grow that generosity to $100 million. You don't need to wait until Thursday to give; donate online through early giving if you prefer.
Below are some of our favorite causes with links to their donation pages. To see all nonprofits, visit Give Miami Day.
Food/Food Justice
305 Feeds
They buy warm meals in bulk from local restaurants impacted by the pandemic and distribute them to local organizations to help those in need.
Black Girls Cook
Established in 2014, Black Girls Cook is a nonprofit organization with a mission to teach adolescent girls of color self-actualization activities and life skills through the use of culinary arts and edible gardening with an emphasis on Black foodways.
Buddy System MIA
Buddy System is fighting food insecurity by creating unique and innovative ways to support the community, beginning with access to free, healthy food.
Coconut Grove Crisis Food Pantry
They organize and distribute groceries to approximately 175+ households every week, relying on the generosity of private individuals as well as educational, civic and religious organizations for food donations and financial support.
Common Threads
This national nonprofit that provides children and families cooking and nutrition education to encourage healthy habits that contribute to wellness, equipping under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn, and play.
EatWell Exchange
Working with diverse communities to promote wellness with a focus on their culture, they show communities how to still have their cultural foods and live a healthy lifestyle.
Empowered Youth
They offer at-risk youth the possibility to learn culinary and entrepreneurial skills while receiving on-the-job training in our their Cafe and on the Vibe305 truck, the only nonprofit food truck in Miami.
Feeding South Florida
Their mission is to end hunger in South Florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts and transforming lives through innovative programs and education.
Food Rescue US
Committed to reducing food waste and hunger in the community, they help the environment by keeping food from decomposing in landfills. Using technology, they engage volunteers to transfer unused surplus food from local businesses to local social service agencies providing for the food insecure.
Good Samaritan Meals
Their mission is to help feed the underserved, vulnerable, and homeless populations through partnerships with local Miami restaurants, grocery stores and bakeries.
Health in the Hood
By providing access to fresh foods and health education in low-income neighborhoods, Health in the Hood puts children on the path to healthy futures, giving parents useful information, and creating environments that encourage healthy choices.
Homestead Soup Kitchen
It is the mission of the Homestead Soup Kitchen to serve those members of the greater Homestead/Florida City community in need of a hot meal, regardless of circumstances, by having a "no questions asked" policy.
Slow Food Miami
This grassroots, all-volunteer board organization brings the healthful benefits of real food to children and families by building and sustaining raised-bed, organic school and community gardens across Miami-Dade County.
Urban Oasis Project
They make healthy, fresh, local food accessible to all using a multi-faceted approach forging relationships to connect diverse issues and communities, operating farmers markets, an online virtual farmers market, and distribute literal tons of produce from local farms to consumers. Most activities incorporate business practices to create economically self-sustaining programs that serve a wide demographic of incomes.
Arts
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
In addition to presenting music, dance and theater performances for almost 500,000 people annually, the Arsht Center embraces its responsibility to bring the arts to children throughout Miami-Dade.
Arts & Business Council of Miami
They leading the movement to build a sustainable cultural ecosystem through advancing high-impact partnerships between business, entrepreneurs and the arts.
Bakehouse Art Complex
Founded in 1985 by artists and for artists in a former industrial Art Deco-era bakery, Bakehouse Art Complex provides studio residencies, infrastructure, and community to enable the highest level of artistic creativity, development, and collaboration for the most promising talent.
Bookleggers Library
Bookleggers is a nonprofit mobile library that expands access to free books as a way of building community.
Coral Gables Art Cinema
The mission of the nonprofit Coral Gables Art Cinema is to inspire, engage, and enhance our community through the powerful medium of great film.
O, Miami
O, Miami builds community around poetry's power to forge connections and bear witness. Through collaboration with citizens, students, artists, communities, and organizations, they create a platform for amplifying Miami's voices, investing in a new shared narrative of our city and a more equitable picture of its future.
Oolite Arts
Founded in 1985 by potter Ellie Schneiderman, Oolite Arts is one of Miami's largest support organizations for artists, providing them with access to free studios, professional development workshops and studio visits with top curators.
Environment/Outdoors
A Zero Waste Culture
They empower neighbors to live sustainably: to reuse and repurpose consumer goods, to reduce their carbon footprint and to take far-reaching civic action.
Bike Coconut Grove
Their mission is to make Coconut Grove more bicycle-friendly (and pedestrian-friendly, too) by promoting bicycling as a form of everyday transportation and recreation.
Bike Walk Coral Gables
Bike Walk Coral Gables promotes a safe and friendly environment for cyclists and pedestrians by sponsoring programs and events to educate the community.
The CLEO Institute
Founded in 2010, this is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization in Florida exclusively dedicated to climate education, advocacy, and engagement.
Debris Free Oceans
Debris Free Oceans is a Miami-based nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring local communities to responsibly manage the lifecycle of plastics and waste through education, outreach, research and policy initiatives.
Fill A Bag
FillABag works with coastal communities to bring awareness to the problems of marine debris, beach litter, and single-use plastic consumption. They install wooden posts with reusable buckets at local beaches and invite folks to turn an ordinary walk into a meaningful cleanup.
Friends of The Underline
Their aim is to deliver and activate a 120-acre, world-class linear park spanning 10-miles below Miami's Metrorail that will transform regional mobility and celebrate diversity, culture and lifelong learning.
Miami Waterkeeper
Their mission is to defend, protect, and preserve South Florida's watershed through citizen engagement, environmental education, and community action rooted in sound science and research, working to ensure swimmable, drinkable, fishable water for all.
Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade
Their mission is to advance and sustain the community's recreational, educational, environmental and cultural life by mobilizing financial support and popular commitment to Miami-Dade County's parks system.
Pelican Harbor Seabird Station
They're dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of sick, injured or orphaned brown pelicans, seabirds and other native wildlife; and the preservation and protection of these species through educational and scientific means.
Sereia Films
This seafood education nonprofit believes seafood choices matter for the future of ocean health. Through video storytelling and creating online content Sereia Films highlights the problems and solutions facing our oceans.
Surfrider Foundation Miami
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's ocean, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.
Tropical Audubon Society
Tropical Audubon Society endeavors to conserve and restore natural South Florida ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats.
UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center
As the premier teaching, research, and extension institution in Florida, UF/IFAS TREC's primary focus is on tropical and subtropical fruit crops, traditional and tropical vegetables, tropical ornamental crops, energy crops, and natural resources in the warm subtropics.
Gardens
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Fairchild is dedicated to harnessing the power of plants for humankind by connecting plants and people.
The Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
This nine-acre historically significant urban oasis on Biscayne Bay has more than 1,000 species of exotic fruit trees, palms, and ethnobotanical plants collected from exotic tropical locales throughout the world.
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
The mission of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden is to promote environmental enjoyment, stewardship and sustainability through education, the arts, and interaction with the natural world.
Health and Education
Baptist Health Foundation
Through philanthropy, the Foundation supports and expands Baptist Health's ability to provide outstanding patient care and bring the latest treatments to patients and families affected by a serious illness.
The Education Fund
The Education Fund's mission is to maximize every child's potential and ensure each one graduates with every opportunity for success. For more than 35 years, we have worked alongside Miami-Dade County Public Schools to meet the needs of students, families, teachers, principals, and the community.
Wellness in the Schools
Wellness in the Schools (WITS) is a national non-profit that teaches kids healthy habits to learn and live better. We partner with school districts to provide nutrition and fitness education, healthy scratch-cooked meals and active recess periods.
Culture/History
The Barnacle Society
The Barnacle Society produces numerous events, celebrations, and special activities at The Barnacle Historic State Park (@historicbarnacle) generating funds to support the preservation and maintenance of The Park
Coral Gables Museum
The Museum's mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban and environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural landscape of Coral Gables; promoting beauty and planning as well as historic and environmental preservation for a broad audience
Dade Heritage Trust
Dade Heritage Trust (DHT) presents meaningful and engaging community programming and initiatives to further our mission including the preservation of naturally occurring affordable housing in Little Havana where we are preserving historic buildings and preserving affordability
The Deering Estate Foundation
Our mission is to raise public awareness, outreach, understanding and the enjoyment of the Deering Estate and to raise funds to support education, research, exhibits and collections, natural conservation and historical restoration and preservation.
Friends of the Commodore Trail
We are working to engage the community in helping to achieve the major goal of improving and completing the Commodore Trail.
The Historic Hampton House
The Historic Hampton House is one of many jewels in the community that offers visitors, children and families of the greater Miami area an opportunity to gain insight into the history and background of the community.
HistoryMiami Museum
HistoryMiami Museum - a Smithsonian Affiliate located in downtown Miami - safeguards and shares Miami stories to foster learning, inspire a sense of place, and cultivate an engaged community.
Miami Design Preservation League
Miami Design Preservation League is a not-for-profit preservation and arts organization which preserves, protects, and promotes the architectural, cultural, social, and environmental integrity of Miami Beach and the surrounding areas.
Virginia Key Beach Park Trust
Established on August 1, 1945 as "The Colored Only Beach,” the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust (VKBPT) operates Historic Virginia Key Beach Park (HVKBP), highlighting its rich cultural history, regional South Florida African American and Caribbean Diaspora contributions, civic activism, and environmental preservation to educate future generations.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Vizcaya is a breathtaking Gilded Age estate on Biscayne Bay and a National Historic Landmark - it has been an important part of the community for more than 100 years, engaging generations of families throughout Florida and around the world.
Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the Miami community through the promotion of public welfare, education, civic improvement, historic preservation and the advancement of the arts and culture while fostering good fellowship among its members.
Helping Community
Coral Gables Community Foundation
Now celebrating 30 years, the Foundation, through its discretionary, donor-advised and scholarships funds, has provided grants to local nonprofits, scholarships to deserving students and has supported issues within the Foundation's focus areas: education, arts & culture, historic preservation and social & health services.
Farmworker Association of Florida
The Farmworker Association of Florida serves thousands of farmworkers in south Miami-Dade County and other parts of Florida. We provide information about their rights as workers and health and safety trainings to help them better take care of themselves while they work.
Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida
Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida was founded in 1923 and currently serves over 3,000 girls in grades K-12 from every residential zip code of Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. We create opportunities for girls to discover their own potential, connect with their peers and adult mentors, and take action in big ways.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami is an ecumenical ministry that provides low-income families an opportunity to help build, and then purchase their own affordable home.
The Kiwanis of Little Havana Foundation
Kiwanis of Little Havana Foundation was established in 1987 as a 501 (c) (3) organization.
Through annual youth programs, our Foundation becomes a mentor to inner city children who are less fortunate and in need of financial assistance.
Lotus House
Our mission is to improve the lives of women, youth and children experiencing homelessness by providing sanctuary, support, education, tools and resources that empower them to improve the quality of their lives on every level, achieve greater self sufficiency, and build safe, secure lives.
