Not-for-profit organizations play a crucially important role in serving and enriching our lower Hudson valley community.  Here are some of them.

• Arts councils, museums, galleries

• Arts performance — music, theatre, dance

• Children

• Community service, social justice, youth services

• Environment, Hudson River

• Healthcare, alcohol/drug abuse prevention

• Historical societies, museums

• Hunger, homelessness

• LGBT — listed on OutCasting page

• Libraries

• Community media

• Local governments

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Arts councils, museums, galleries

• Blue Door Artist Association (Yonkers) — public art, art exhibitions, gallery

• Castle Gallery — non-profit contemporary art gallery at the College of New Rochelle

• Croton Council on the Arts

• Hudson Valley Arts and Science, Inc. — information on local community organizations

• Katonah Museum of Art — visual arts; creative hands-on experiences; outdoor concerts, "artful" parties, trips to other museums and collections

• Riverspace (Nyack) — not-for-profit arts organization offering innovative programming in theater, dance, music, film and education

• Rivertown Arts Council — arts council for Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington

• The Studio (Armonk) — an alternative space for contemporary art

• Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery (Valhalla)

Arts — music, theatre, dance, performance

• Academy of Music (Nyack) — music education

• ANGELICA Women Chamber Singers (Hastings-on-Hudson) — women's chamber vocal group

• Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (Katonah) — nonprofit year-round performing arts, museum, and education center

• The Chappaqua Orchestra (TCO) — professional-level orchestra performing eight concerts per season

• Chiku Awali African Dance, Arts & Culture, Inc. (Spring Valley) — community dance, arts, and culture organization

• Common Ground Coffeehouse (Hastings-on-Hudson)

• Dance Attitude (Stony Point)

• Downtown Music (White Plains) — performing arts center

• Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Cold Spring) — vigorously original interpretations, performed on the grounds of Boscobel in Garrison

• Jazz Forum Arts (Dobbs Ferry) — nonprofit arts presenting organization

• NY Blues and Jazz Society (Mount Vernon) — supporting roots, blues, and jazz music

• Rockland Choral Society — choral music performance

• Steffi Nossen Dance in Education Fund — not-for-profit dance organization serving as a dance resource for students, professionals, and audiences, based in White Plains and teaching there and in Scarsdale, Chappaqua, and Stamford

• Westchester Concert Singers (Pleasantville) — semi-professional community chorus performing entire classical repertoire

• Westchester Jazz Orchestra (Chappaqua) — world-class jazz concerts and education programs

• Westchester Philharmonic — led by world-renowned Artistic Director Itzhak Perlman, the only fully-professional symphony orchestra devoted to serving the people of Westchester County

• Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra / Fine Arts Orchestral Society of Yonkers — semi-professional orchestra; five free classical music concerts annually; annual concerto competition for high school students

Children

• Ossining Children's Center, Inc. — childcare, early childhood education, before- and after-school enrichment

• Head Start of Rockland — preschool and early childhood education; blog

• The Pinwheel Project (Bedford) — providing practical help and emotional support to hospitalized children and their families

Community service, social justice

• American Iranian Friendship Committee (Armonk) — promoting trust, mutual understanding and peace between Americans and Iranians living in Iran and abroad.  Peace and dialogue!

• Community Opportunity Center of the Tarrytowns, Inc. — multi-purpose social service agency providing services to low-income, at-risk youth, the elderly and immigrant population of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow

• Social Action Committee of the 4th Unitarian Society of Westchester — education, consciousness raising, action on issues of social justice and anti-racism

• Hudson Valley Community Coalition — encouraging immigration solutions and expanding the conversation about our diverse community

• The LOFT (White Plains) — lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community center for the lower Hudson valley

• Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Inc. — emergency food aid for the greater Mount Kisco area

• Neighbors Link (Mount Kisco) — services to undocumented workers

• VCS: Gay Pride Rockland (New City) — social justice for all without exception

• Westhab, Inc. — homeless and affordable housing, community development, youth services

• WESPAC Foundation — peace and justice educational and activist network

Environment, Hudson River

• Beacon Sloop Club — bringing people closer to the river with sailing, music, and environmentalism

• Cool Cities Mamaroneck — combating climate change locally, a Sierra Club initiative

• GreenOssining — promoting environmental sustainability community-wide and developing practical methods that protect our natural resources

• Greenburgh Nature Center (Scarsdale) — nature preserve, environmental education programming

• Riverkeeper — nnonprofit protecting the Hudson River and NYC Watershed

Healthcare, alcohol/drug abuse prevention

• Hudson Valley Hospital Center (HVHC) (Peekskill) — featuring Diagnostic Imaging, Physical Therapy & Wellness Club, located in Peekskill

• Mount Kisco Drug and Alcohol Prevention Council — preventing abuse of alcohol and drugs in the Mount Kisco community

• Open Door Family Medical Centers (Ossining, Mt. Kisco, Sleepy Hollow, Port Chester) — medical, dental, social services especially for the economically disadvantaged

Historical Societies and museums

• Dobbs Ferry Historical Society — collecting, preserving, and promulgating information on Dobbs Ferry history

• Historic Hudson Valley — six museums of history including Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton, Philipsburg Manor and Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate, in Sleepy Hollow, and the Union Church of Pocantico Hills

Hunger, homelessness

• Food Bank for Westchester (Millwood) — supplying food to Westchester programs helping to feed hungry Westchester residents

Libraries

• Briarcliff Manor Public Library

• Dobbs Ferry Public Library

• Greenburgh Public Library — one of the largest book collections in Westchester; computers and wifi for public use

• Irvington Public Library

• Lewisboro Library

• New City Library

• New Rochelle Public Library — community resource offering materials technology, services, and programs

• North Salem (Ruth Keeler) Memorial Library

• Ossining Public Library

• Piermont (Dennis P. McHugh) Public Library

• Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library

• Rye Free Reading Room / events calendar

• Westchester County Library System

Community Media

• New Castle Community Television (NCCTV)

• Progressive News Network — community-produced independent media for peace and social justice in Westchester

Governments

• Croton-on-Hudson (village)

• Ossining (town)

• Ossining (village)

• Somers (town)

How to get your organization added to this listing

This listing of local progressive nonprofit and governmental organizations is a free service of WDFH-FM 90.3, Westchester Public Radio.  If would like your organization included, please e-mail us with

• the organization's name,

• the web site or other contact information for publication here, and

• a brief description (15 words or fewer).

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