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Junior League of Pelham
The Junior League of Pelham, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
The Birthday Party Project
Their mission is to bring JOY to children living in homeless and transitional living facilities
The Bottomless Closet
Bottomless Closet was established by a group of founding volunteers in response to an August, 1996 New York Times article that spoke about the obstacles that mothers on public assistance had seeking work, including the lack of appropriate interview clothing and the lack of self-confidence to present
WESTHAB – Homes for Homeless
Rotary Club of the Pelhams
Pelham Together
The Pelham PACT Coalition (PACT) and Pelham’s Community Care Center (CCC) have joined forces, recognizing the complementary strengths of each organization, to become a community-based organization with a mission of greater breadth and depth in an effort to ensure the very best for Pelham’s youth and families.
As a newly formed joint effort, Pelham Together will advocate for and develop empowered youth, engaged adults, and energized community partners, harnessing the shared sense of responsibility that makes Pelham so unique.
The role of Pelham Together will be to connect our community, inform our families, and elevate our young people.
We believe the Pelham community depends on all of us, a collective “we”, to be actively involved with a shared sense of responsibility. The underlying mission is to ensure a healthy and vibrant community for and with the youth of Pelham.
Our community coalition is made up of all sectors in the community including schools, youth, parents, businesses, local government, law enforcement, healthcare professionals, faith-based organizations, civic / volunteer organizations, youth-serving organizations, media, and prevention experts exemplifying the need for everyone to be involved in support of our youth.
Pelham Art Center
Pelham Art Center is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution committed to providing public access to see, study and experience the arts, foster lifelong arts appreciation and thereby strengthen the community.
Humane Society of Westchester
he Humane Society of Westchester, founded in 1911 as the New Rochelle Humane Society, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting the human/animal bond through the compassionate care and treatment of animals throughout the communities we serve in Westchester County and beyond. To that end, our goal is to create a living environment that is not just a shelter, but a transitional home for stray, lost, abandoned, injured, and abused animals, until they can ultimately be placed in loving permanent homes. Through promotion of successful pet adoption, animal population control, and public education of animal welfare issues, we advance our belief that pet ownership is a lifetime commitment.
Girl Scouts of Pelham
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place
Boys’ and Girls’ Club of New Rochelle
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The Danny Fund of Pelham
The Danny Fund provides financial, emotional and advocacy support for the families of children under the age of 21 who reside within a 25-mile radius of Pelham, Ny and are suffering from a catastrophic illness or injury. The goal of The Danny Fund is to prevent the financial and emotional collapse of these families by providing the assistance needed to help them remain stable.
Project Community
Their mission is to create a network of caring people to serve the needs of the communities where we all live together, and to tackle health issues at a grassroots level. Project REWIND I and II address crucial issues of physical and mental health that are impacting our youth: binge drinking and sexual assault. The REWIND programs use current research and innovative teaching strategies to empower teens and young adults to intervene. The programs are available to schools and other groups for a nominal fee. Project CHILDD (Community Helping in Learning about Developmental Disabilities), provides free monthly social and arts programs to children (aged 3-18) with developmental delays.
New Rochelle YMCA
An inclusive organization of men, women and children joined together by a shared commitment to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility.
Friends of the Town of Pelham Library
The Friends organization is comprised of a Board of 21 Pelham residents who volunteer their time to run special events and raise money to help our Library remain a vibrant community resource.
Meals on Wheels
Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle is an independent not-for-profit incorporated in 1983 to bring daily meals to homebound men and women in New Rochelle, New York. Hot nutritious meals are delivered seven days a week, including all holidays, by our corps of dedicated volunteers. This program enables clients to remain at home in their own familiar surroundings – as long as they can safely do so. Meals-on-Wheels also provides a link between the homebound and other community services and helps promote better health among those we serve.
Community Service Associates, Inc.
CSA has provided the Mt. Vernon Community with programs that nourish not only the physical but the social and psychological needs of the poor since 1986.
County Harvest
County Harvest is a nonprofit food rescue organization serving Westchester County, New york. Our mission is to help communities in Westchester County by connecting food donors with agencies serving people in need.
EcoPel (Environmental Coalition of the Pelhams)
Established in 2013, The Environmental Coalition of the Pelhams (EcoPel) is a grassroots, 501c3 organization that provides environmental information and education to the Pelham community.
Pelham Civic Association
We have been serving the needs of the Pelham community since 1939. Those needs have changed over time, as have the community and its residents, but the commitment of our organization has remained the same—and grown.
Today, our 150+ member/volunteers do a terrific job in making sure every dollar we raise goes directly back to the Pelham community in the form of support for our various programs for seniors, youth, disabled and the needy.
– to make charitable donations to, or to perform charitable acts to assist, the youth, the financially needy, the physically and mentally challenged, and the senior citizens residing in the Town of Pelham
– to contribute donations to, or otherwise assist, other not-for-profit organizations formed to provide similar help to the same group of Pelham residents
– to promote civic-minded involvement and activities by the Association’s members and others
– to encourage community spirit and pride
– to give service, advice, and appropriate support for worthwhile community projects and programs
– to provide a forum for discussion with community groups, organizations and elected and non-elected officials
– to promote a sense of brotherhood and a fraternal spirit among the membership and their families