The Triangle nonprofits listed below have been nominated by our members and are already pre-qualified for random selection. If you are a member and know of another great nonprofit doing fantastic work in our community, please Nominate Now.
3 Bluebirds Farm
We offer track-out and summer farm camps for children with autism! We offer monthly social clubs for teens & young adults with autism! Our long-term goal is to include a planned agricultural community located in Raleigh, NC.
A Place At The Table
A Place at the Table opened as a pay-what-you-can café at 300 W. Hargett St in downtown Raleigh. We are a welcoming and inviting space that provides an opportunity for all people to come and experience conversation and community while enjoying an excellent, fresh, and healthy meal.
Able To Serve
Our mission is to equip adults with disabilities to be independent and connect them with opportunities to serve others in their community.
ALottaLove
A Lotta Love’s mission is to empower women and their children to reclaim their pride while living in this temporary environment.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle
Big Brother Big Sisters is a one-to-one volunteer mentoring program that is designed to foster the potential children and young adults ages 6-17.
Bridge II Sports
Bridge II Sports creates opportunities for youth and adults with physical disabilities to ‘Find The Player Within’ through the power of adapted sports.
The Caring Community Foundation
The Caring Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides financial support to cancer patients in need by providing assistance with rent, utilities, treatment or other expenses that become difficult to manage during cancer treatment.
Children’s Flight of Hope
Children’s Flight of Hope (CFOH) provides air transportation for children to access specialized medical care.
Converting Hearts Ministry
To reach broken families through the power of the gospel as an extension of the local church, and to produce a measurable impact at home, at work, and in the community.
Dorcas
Dorcas Ministries provides compassionate assistance to area residents to empower people to become stable and self-sufficient.
Duke Homecare & Hospice
Provide personal clinical care to individuals facing serious and chronic conditions.
Durham Partnership for Children
To ensure every child in Durham enters school ready to succeed. We lead community strategies for children, from birth to age 5, and their families. We promote healthy development and learning. We enhance access to high quality care.
Esteamed Coffee
Esteamed Coffee is a 501(c)(3) non-profit cafe located in downtown Cary, NC. We employ individuals with various disabilities, most of whom have never had a meaningful employment opportunity before. Our team is on a mission to lower the unemployment rate and increase the quality of life for adults with intellectual, developmental, communication, and/or visual disabilities by creating meaningful jobs and social opportunities in a warm, supportive environment.
First in Families
First in Families helps families with special needs children.
Gabi’s Grounds
Gabi’s Grounds mission is to EMPOWER the SPECIAL ABILITIES COMMUNITY to find their place in the world and ENJOY FULFILLMENT in everything they do. We promote equal access to persons with disabilities in our workplace. We create market value that includes everyone in an enriched community while providing great coffee and a unique customer service experience.
Gigi’s Playhouse Raleigh
A place that empowers those with and affected by Down syndrome in a positive and uplifting environment. Gigi’s provides a free of charge curriculum that works toward advancing literacy, math skills, motor skills and other life skills.
Holt Brothers
Their goal is to create a thriving company that provides jobs, grows the economy and benefits the greater good … and matches their success on the football field.
Hope Connection International
They help women that are being abused and stuck in their situation helps them get out.
Hope & Vine
Hope + Vine offers these young women employment and community opportunities so they can break the cycle of trauma and become confident, thriving adults.
HopeLine
HopeLine has been in Raleigh since 1970. HopeLine provides a crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotline where people can call or text to reach a volunteer who will provide caring, supportive, non-judgmental listening and resource referral services. HopeLibe volunteers respond to more than 800 callers/testers per month who reach out to the crisis/text lines.
Jobs for Life
JfL addresses the root causes of unemployment by uniting churches, businesses, and community organizations and facilitating positive transformation within lives and communities.
Made 4 Me
Made4Me is an independent non-profit organization located in Raleigh, NC. We work with therapists and the parents of children with special needs to provide them with personalized adaptations (furniture and more) out of industrial cardboard at NO cost to the child or families.
Me Fine
To provide hope through emotional support and financial assistance to families whose children are receiving care at North Carolina partner hospitals.
Meals on Wheels
At Meals on Wheels of Wake County, we provide our homebound and senior neighbors with a nutritious hot meal, along with a check-in and visit. Our services provide the opportunity for seniors to continue living well nourished, independent and safe lives, in their own homes and communities.
Meg Smiles Foundation
Meg’s Smile Foundation is a 501 c3 charitable organization that provides special days out or gifts to children affected by serious illnesses who are treated in North Carolina hospitals. Our mission is to bring smiles to the faces of these children and their families while they are going through what can be a very long and emotional journey.
Military Missions in Action
Dedicated to assisting Veterans in need, members of all Armed Forces, and their loving supporting families
Mission 22
Mission 22 provides support to veterans and their families when they need it most; right now. Through a comprehensive approach of outreach, events, and programs, we’re promoting long-term wellness and sustainable growth.
New Leaf Behavioral Health
Mental health organization devoted to providing affordable and effective mental health services.
North Carolina Victims Assistance Network
Through advocacy, training, and technical assistance, North Carolina Victim Assistance Network supports the rights and well-being of surviving loved ones of homicide victims and others harmed by violent crime in North Carolina.
Note in the Pocket
Note in the Pocket’s mission is to provide quality clothing to homeless and impoverished children and families with dignity and love.
Oak City Recovery Run Club
Oak City Recovery Run Club fosters supportive connections for people in recovery through exercise and fellowship.
Open Table Ministries
Open Table Ministry seeks out and guides those experiencing homelessness and poverty to long-term health and wholeness by building ongoing trusting relationships, meeting practical and personal needs, making connections to community resources, and bridging critical gaps in the social services system.
Pardoned By Christ Prison Ministry
Our vision is to establish in prison, transitional, and community based Christian programming for justice-involved individuals throughout North Carolina. This is demonstrated with bible study, church services, and mentoring programs in both adult and youth facilities.
Passage Home
To break the cycle of poverty and create multi-generational self-sufficiency for the individuals and families of Wake County by helping them achieve housing and income security.
Pretty in Pink Foundation
The foundation assists with paying for medical treatments for cancer patients. The doctor who founded the organization discovered that many of her patients were not getting the follow-up treatments necessary due to the lack of money. The foundation has paid for thousands of treatments for breast cancer patients in North Carolina.
Real Life Works
Real Life Works Mission Statement: To raise awareness of adults with autism and other developmental disabilities within the community and provide opportunities to expand their life options.
Rebuilding Together of the Triangle
We make a sustainable impact, ensuring vulnerable homeowners – including seniors, individuals with disabilities, and families with children – live in safe, healthy homes.
Red Cross-Triangle
The Eastern North Carolina Region is comprised of the Cape Fear, Central North Carolina, Northeastern North Carolina, Sandhills, and Triangle Area Chapters.
SAFEChild
Every child has the right to grow up in an environment free from abuse and neglect.
SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals
SECU Family House is a safe, nurturing, affordable home for patients and their loved ones who travel great distances to UNC Hospitals for life-saving procedures and serious illnesses.
Shelton Leadership Center
The Shelton Leadership Center’s vision is to positively impact values-based leadership behavior throughout pre-college, university, within the corporate and business community, and eventually across the nation and world. Exposing individuals to the value of disciplined, purposeful action in the multiple “playing fields” of life, and providing tools to accomplish this, is a key component of the Center’s programs, as are collaboration, cooperation, communication, and partnership.
Shop Space
ShopSpace is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created by craft enthusiasts, particularly in metal and woodwork, aiming to share their passion and empower others to create. The organization prioritizes safety, support, creativity, and accessibility, beginning its programming with a focus on metalworking, with plans to evolve according to community needs. Future plans include expanding into woodworking, textiles, and other crafts requiring expensive infrastructure and tools, aiming to be a dynamic, self-supporting entity that offers various opportunities for building, learning, and playing.
SPCA of Wake County
The SPCA of Wake County operates two animal shelters and a low-cost spay/neuter clinic. The SPCA is an independent animal welfare organization that was founded in 1967. The shelter transfers in over 4000 animals from Wake and surrounding county shelters. The SPCA focuses its programs on pets AND people with a goal of ending euthanasia of adoptable animals by the year 2025.
Stomp The Monster NC
Stomp The Monster NC is a non profit organization that provides financial assistance to patients across North Carolina who are actively undergoing treatment for cancer.
SwingPals
We help children with less resources, who are facing social and economic adversity, to live happy and healthy lives
Tammy Lynn Center for Disabled Kids
A charity created 50 years ago to aid kids and families with developmental disabilities. They serve hundreds of families at their center adjacent to NCSU and in the homes of families in Wake County.
The Carying Place
The Carying Place is a local nonprofit that helps homeless, working families establish stable housing, financial literacy, and end the cycle of poverty.
The Green Chair Project
We reuse donated household furnishings to renew lives of participants referred from area programs who are recovering after homelessness, crisis or disaster.
The Guardian Angel Thrift
The Guardian Angel Thrift is a Non Profit supporting Alzheimer’s Research, born from an idea of how to raise money for research in order to help find a cure for this disease.
The Helene Foundation
The Helene Foundation provides immediate support to mothers fighting cancer to positively impact families
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County
As a private nonprofit, United Arts has worked for more than 25 years to build a better Raleigh and Wake County through support of and advocacy for the arts. These funds bring life-changing arts education to our schools and municipalities. They provide artists with resources and opportunities to share their work, and teachers with innovative training.
US Veterans Corps
Builds homes for combat injured troops Provides food for low income US Military & First Responders Provides toys to the children of low income and deployed Disaster relief Funerals for the fallen.
Wade Edwards Learning Lab
Providing the student community with opportunities for achievement, enrichment, and service, in preparation for personal and academic success.
Wake Monarch Academy
Wake Monarch’s primary purpose is to create programs and environments aimed at the prevention, reduction of, and recovery from substance use by adolescents in the Triangle area of North Carolina.
WakeEd Partnership
Unique, strategic, education nonprofit focused exclusively on transforming teaching and leadership modeling in Wake County Public Schools
Western Wake Crisis Ministry
We work together to facilitate opportunities for people in Western Wake County to serve each other when there is a need for assistance with food, finances, job searches, and basic health screenings.
White Plains Children’s Center
White Plains Children’s Center is a special non-profit inclusion based 5 STAR child care center. To create a stimulating and nurturing environment where children of all abilities, regardless of socio-economic or cultural background, can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Wish For Our Heroes
They are an amazing organization that donates as much as possible to the veterans they serve. They sponsor events in tandem with Pat manager to take care of veterans. Pat works as a kicker for the colts but the org is amazing.
Wheels4Hope
Wheels4Hope is a non-profit, faith-based car donation program that turns donated cars into local blessings.
Women’s Center of Wake County
The Women’s Center is a multi-service crisis intervention and assessment center, located near downtown Raleigh.
YMCA of the Triangle
Our Mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.