Spotlights on Specific Nonprofits

Our mission at Giving Assistant is to make it easy for everyone to give back to their favorite nonprofit or local charity. Learn more about some of our favorite nonprofits (Spotlights) and how you can easily donate your free cash back earnings everytime you shop.

Partnership with Native Americans: Nonprofit Spotlight

Partnership with Native Americans: Nonprofit Spotlight

In celebration of National American Indian Heritage Month in November, we’re shining a light on Partnership with Native Americans, one of the largest Native-led and Native-serving nonprofit charities in the U.S. that helps Native Americans to improve their quality of life. Their mission: Serving immediate needs. Supporting long-term solutions. Learn more about how Partnership with […]

La Casa de las Madres: Nonprofit Spotlight

La Casa de las Madres: Nonprofit Spotlight

Nearly 20 people per minute, on average, are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States, equating to more than 10 million women and men annually. In California, roughly 35% of women have experienced physical violence in a relationship during their lifetime. To make matters worse, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

No Kid Hungry: Nonprofit Spotlight

No Kid Hungry: Nonprofit Spotlight

It’s hard to believe, but millions of children in the United States live in food-insecure homes where family members go to bed hungry and don’t have enough food to lead a healthy life. Feeding America projects that 42 million people (1 in 8), including as many as 13 million children (1 in 6), may experience […]

Jackie Robinson Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Jackie Robinson Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

The first African American in the twentieth century to play Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson broke the league’s color barrier after more than 50 years of segregation. His contributions to the broader civil rights movement extended off the field into business, media, and nonviolent activism. Jackie Robinson Foundation, incorporated by Robinson’s wife, Rachel Robinson, after […]

Wine To Water: Nonprofit Spotlight

Wine To Water: Nonprofit Spotlight

Clean water is a basic human right, but universal access to it is still not guaranteed to everyone.  According to UNICEF and the World Health Organization, “1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water.” Whether as a result of the havoc of war, government neglect, impoverishment or other infrastructural ineiquities, […]

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: Nonprofit Spotlight

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: Nonprofit Spotlight

In celebration of National Parks & Rec Month in July, we’re shining a light on the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a community-supported nonprofit responsible for preserving and protecting the second most-visited parklands managed by the National Park Service. Their vision: Parks For All Forever. Learn more about how the Parks Conservancy inspires national parks […]

African Wildlife Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

African Wildlife Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Wildlife (especially endangered species) have the best chance to survive in their natural habitat. Yet on continental Africa, the struggle between local communities and wild animals to coexist without fierce competition for land, food, water, safety, and other resources compounds the effort to save dwindling animal populations and wildlands worldwide. Over the past 50 years, […]

The ASPCA: Nonprofit Spotlight

The ASPCA: Nonprofit Spotlight

Every 60 seconds, an animal in the United States suffers abuse. Unfortunately, the heart-wrenching incidents of animal cruelty reported daily only scratch the surface of the widespread intentional neglect, harm, and exploitation that millions of innocent creatures endure nationwide. This month, we’re celebrating the impact of an organization that believes all creatures deserve a better […]

Trees for the Future: Nonprofit Spotlight

Trees for the Future: Nonprofit Spotlight

Planting trees is a promise to a better future — for the planet and everyone on it. And efforts to plant trees don’t just protect the physical environment itself. This work can also help regenerate land, restore sustainable food supplies, and bring shared health and healing to communities around the world. As the need to mitigate […]

The Trevor Project: Nonprofit Spotlight

The Trevor Project: Nonprofit Spotlight

The path of the broader LGBTQ rights movement is long and nonlinear, and even amid certain milestones of progress, it is crucial to stand together and continue to create a world where everyone experiences joy, affirmation, and freedom from fear of threats to their basic human rights. One element of creating this future is protecting […]

Dog Tag Inc.: Nonprofit Spotlight

Dog Tag Inc.: Nonprofit Spotlight

Shifting from a military mindset and environment to a civilian workforce isn’t always easy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate for all non-disabled and disabled veterans that actively served in the U.S. Armed Forces rose to 6.5 percent in 2020. May is National Military Appreciation Month (NMAM), a time to acknowledge […]

Active Minds: Nonprofit Spotlight

Active Minds: Nonprofit Spotlight

There are plenty of exciting things about high school and college: the proximity of a community of your peers, lasting bonds with educators and mentors, the beauty and energy of a campus.  But during these formative periods in their lives, students can still feel alone and distressed. Between the pressure of classes, work and extracurriculars, […]

She’s the First: Nonprofit Spotlight

She’s the First: Nonprofit Spotlight

It’s not easy being a girl. From the moment they’re born, girls experience gender inequality and are treated differently from boys in their communities, homes, and schools. On a global scale, girls are often denied an education, told who and when to marry (one girl under the age of 18 is married every two seconds), […]

Oceana: Nonprofit Spotlight

Oceana: Nonprofit Spotlight

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the ocean holds around 97 percent of our planet’s water. It’s the life force that supports all of the Earth’s flora, fauna, and nearly 8 billion people. Protecting it is imperative, a key component of ensuring a safe planet long-term. Per a 2019 United Nations report covered […]

Autism Science Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Autism Science Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

In an effort to help individuals and families cope with autism to improve outcomes and the quality of life for all involved, there are a number of organizations dedicated to providing families with various levels of support. However, one such organization deserves a shoutout: The Autism Science Foundation (ASF). Here’s just a snapshot of what […]

Keep A Breast Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Keep A Breast Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime — but breast cancer detected early in the localized stage has a 99% five-year survival rate. From the vantage of the nonprofit Keep A Breast Foundation, prevention is the cure, and there are many ways to educate […]

B Lab: Nonprofit Spotlight

B Lab: Nonprofit Spotlight

The current norm of doing business is loyalty to shareholders, or people who own financial shares of a company. Their wants hold primacy over the needs of stakeholders: employees, consumers, and members of the community and planet. In other words, people with stake in the consequences of production. And even when businesses set out to […]

Girls Who Code: Nonprofit Spotlight

Girls Who Code: Nonprofit Spotlight

If you look at the demographics of Silicon Valley and the modern tech industry writ large, it may not initially be apparent that software engineering and programming were founded by women. But women are at the center of the history of computer science.  In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program in the […]

Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute: Nonprofit Spotlight

Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute: Nonprofit Spotlight

February is Black History Month, an annual celebration of the achievements and contributions of Black Americans central to all aspects of U.S. history. This time also invites recognition of and participation in the ongoing civil rights movement: an imperative to support equity and justice for Black Americans in the face of the country’s legacy of […]

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: Nonprofit Spotlight

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: Nonprofit Spotlight

When someone is sent to prison, the void they leave behind is felt by everyone. It fractures families. It steals dignity and opportunity from the incarcerated. It makes their own children more likely to enter the system.  Meanwhile, prison is treated as a solution to problems that really need healthcare—like mental illness and addiction—or social […]

Native American Rights Fund: Nonprofit Spotlight

Native American Rights Fund: Nonprofit Spotlight

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to reflect on and uplift the sovereignty of the indigenous peoples of this land, which pre-dates the United States.  The displacement of indigenous peoples during the settlement and expansion of the United States had a dramatic impact on their cultural, economic, and legal rights — to name […]

Sisters Network Inc.: Nonprofit Spotlight

Sisters Network Inc.: Nonprofit Spotlight

Fact: African American women are slightly less likely than white women to be diagnosed with breast cancer. But they are almost two times more likely to die from it. This is one of the very first facts you’ll learn while browsing the nonprofit Sisters Network Inc.’s website.  But there are other facts you won’t find […]

Spread the Vote: Nonprofit Spotlight

Spread the Vote: Nonprofit Spotlight

Did you know? In 22 U.S. states, a valid photo ID is required to vote.  In most states, photo IDs are also required to get a job, apply for food stamps, or even purchase certain medications. Here’s something else: There are over 20 million Americans without valid, government-issued photo identification. That means there are millions […]

National Breast Cancer Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

National Breast Cancer Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

For this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re shining a light on National Breast Cancer Foundation! National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) is at the forefront of ensuring every woman has access to the breast health education and care that she needs. We’re grateful to NBCF for writing this post for us, and for lending their […]

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: Nonprofit Spotlight

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: Nonprofit Spotlight

When you hear the word cancer, what’s the first word that comes to mind? If you work for—or have been supported by—the almost 80-year-old Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the first word you’d think of might be survival. Or may be even eradication. That’s because the goal of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) is to […]

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

In America today, hundreds of childhood cancer charities are hard at work serving the nearly 16,000 kids and teens who will be diagnosed with cancer this year, each organization with a different story, yet all with the same vision: a world without cancer. When 4-year-old Alex set up her first lemonade stand in 2000, that […]

Charity Navigator: Nonprofit Spotlight

Charity Navigator: Nonprofit Spotlight

National Nonprofit Day is right around the corner, and in honor of it, we’re introducing you to Charity Navigator: a nonprofit for all. As their name suggests, Charity Navigator—an online resource where anyone can tap into a database of 501(c)(3)s to learn about specific organizations and guide their giving decisions—has been a force for charitable […]

Naturalist For You: Nonprofit Spotlight

Naturalist For You: Nonprofit Spotlight

Remember what it was like to be small? To be in the backyard, no dinging cell phone, no notifications, no calendars, no to-do lists.  Remember what it was like before you grew up and your backyard became a chore?  Back when time was slow, when there was no “yesterday” and no “later on”—just this moment, […]

National Black Justice Coalition: Nonprofit Spotlight

National Black Justice Coalition: Nonprofit Spotlight

America’s journey towards equality for all people has been long and winding, and continues to be. We are diverse. And in too many ways, it’s clear we’re still working to completely honor that. But there’s also diversity within the diversity, such as LGBTQ+ people in the Black community, and those in the community living with […]

Mindfulness First: Nonprofit Spotlight

Mindfulness First: Nonprofit Spotlight

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and Giving Assistant is shining a light on mental health nonprofits like Mindfulness First: an organization working hard to improve the mental health and wellbeing of America’s students and teachers. Learn more about mindfulness, what Mindfulness First is and how they are making an impact, plus find out how […]

Caitlin’s Smiles: Nonprofit Spotlight

Caitlin’s Smiles: Nonprofit Spotlight

When times are scary, uncertain, challenging, and even painful for children and their families, one nonprofit shows up with a “Bag of Smiles,” hand-assembled just for them. Today, Giving Assistant is shining a light on Caitlin’s Smiles, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit inspired by a little girl who, throughout a 3 ½-year-long battle with brain cancer, found […]

First Descents: Nonprofit Spotlight

First Descents: Nonprofit Spotlight

With roughly 70,000 new diagnoses per year, cancer is the most aggressive, disease-related cause of death in young adults today. Imagine for a moment what it must feel like to be in your prime and receive this particular kind of devastating news. That’s what happened to Gabriel. Because of his illness, Gabriel faced many challenges, […]

One ATTA Time: Nonprofit Spotlight

One ATTA Time: Nonprofit Spotlight

Dirty water is the culprit behind the diseases that kill more people every year than all forms of violence put together, including war. What’s more disheartening is that 43 percent of those deaths are children under the age of five. One child dies every two minutes from drinking contaminated water—that’s nearly 900 children lost daily […]

Generations Against Bullying: Nonprofit Spotlight

Generations Against Bullying: Nonprofit Spotlight

According to the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, 1 in 4 teenagers claim they’ve endured the painful effects of bullying. And while some kids speak out, most just don’t know what to do—or are understandably afraid of retaliation. The good news: Most acts of bullying can be stopped within 10 seconds when […]

The Salvation Army: Nonprofit Spotlight

The Salvation Army: Nonprofit Spotlight

Imagine for a moment: New York City in the middle of winter. Snow flurries, icy sidewalks, and near-zero temperatures. This is the type of weather that only compounds Darian’s current situation. He recently lost his minimum-wage job, couldn’t pay the rent, and now has nowhere to live. Without any family or friends to help, Darian […]

Drawn from Valor: Nonprofit Spotlight

Drawn from Valor: Nonprofit Spotlight

This post is authored by Drawn from Valor, a partnered nonprofit. Let us paint a picture for you: Imagine that you have a child or a family member who has been displaying unusual health symptoms. You take them to the doctor and you wait for test results. You are anxious and scared because you just […]

Right To Play: Nonprofit Spotlight

Right To Play: Nonprofit Spotlight

Imagine for a moment what a playground looks like for a child living in a war-torn country. Does it have monkey bars, slides, and swings? Are schoolyards filled with joyful excitement? For Malual and thousands of other children worldwide, there wasn’t much around that lifted their spirits and eased the anxiety of living in an […]

Best Day Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Best Day Foundation: Nonprofit Spotlight

Imagine a typical day at the beach: kites and Frisbees in flight, hot sand between your toes, volleyball games, soaking in the rays, and the ocean calling your name. It all sounds like a dream—especially for most kids with special needs, like Amy—whose rare medical issues and physical limitations make it difficult to fully experience […]

ACE Fitness: How They Are Giving Back

ACE Fitness: How They Are Giving Back

What is Ace Fitness? The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a nonprofit fitness certification, education and training provider with more than 85,000 certified professionals who hold more than 90,000 ACE certifications. They are the leading nonprofit exercise professional and health coach certification organization, with a goal to set the highest industry standards, elevate the […]

Waves for Water: Nonprofit Spotlight

Waves for Water: Nonprofit Spotlight

Three in 10 people globally lack access to safe, readily available water at home. This is 28% of the world’s population. Without a reliable water source, just drinking, bathing or making dinner become a hurdle in their day. And the scarcity only gets worse in disasters that strike communities around the world.  Enter Waves for […]

Freely in Hope: Nonprofit Spotlight

Freely in Hope: Nonprofit Spotlight

Nearly one in three Kenyan girls experience sexual violence before the age of 18.  In Zambia, 59% of women have been sexually violated. And in South Africa and beyond, dreams of school and self-determination are diverted by human trafficking, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage. Survivors have visions for themselves and their communities, but many […]

Marine Conservation Institute: Nonprofit Spotlight

Marine Conservation Institute: Nonprofit Spotlight

These responses were provided by Marine Conservation Institute’s Communications Coordinator, Matt Coomer. Thank you for taking the time to tell us about your organization! Table of Contents What is the Marine Conservation Institute What Is The Organization’s Overall Mission? What Are a Few Goals Your Organization Has Been Focusing on This Year? Can You Discuss […]

The Yellow Feather Fund: Nonprofit Spotlight

The Yellow Feather Fund: Nonprofit Spotlight

Everyone knows that Big Bird and his pals on Sesame Street have been helping kids learn their ABCs and 123s for decades, but did you know they are also helping children here and around the world with even tougher challenges? Think back to your childhood. Chances are, you have a fond memory of Sesame Street. […]

Tostan: Nonprofit Spotlight

Tostan: Nonprofit Spotlight

In December of 2016, something incredible happened in West Africa—something Tostan founder, Molly Melching could have only dreamed about. Imagine finding yourself in a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people from over 300 different communities. “Overwhelmed” might be a word that first comes to mind. Then, imagine knowing this massive crowd had come together […]

Pencils of Promise: Nonprofit Spotlight

Pencils of Promise: Nonprofit Spotlight

Updated by staff writer Yona Williams. Unsafe, unsanitary, and ill-equipped classrooms create barriers for teachers, students, and communities—conditions that lead to low enrollment and poor school attendance. According to the anti-poverty nonprofit One Campaign, 70 million 10-year-olds in 2021 alone could lack basic literacy skills expected at that age. Another hurdle to overcome: the COVID-19 […]

Camp Kesem: Nonprofit Spotlight

Camp Kesem: Nonprofit Spotlight

“We are so grateful for our partnership with Giving Assistant and their impactful support of children touched by a parent’s cancer. The need for Kesem’s services is far-reaching and touches every corner of our country.”-Jane Saccaro, CEO, Kesem Giving Assistant members are providing relief to children—at the most vulnerable time of their lives—just by shopping […]

Team Rubicon Global: Nonprofit Spotlight

Team Rubicon Global: Nonprofit Spotlight

Picture it: It’s early October 2016… Haiti had just been devastated by Hurricane Matthew. Over the next several days, the death toll increased to 900. By the end of the month, over 1.2 million Haitians were in desperate need of food assistance. Less than 24 hours after the last storm clouds had parted—while other relief […]