Giving Tuesday | Sponsored by TFNB

November 1, 2025

TFNB Your Bank for Life is committed to working with nonprofits in the greater Waco area to cultivate missions, family, and community.

Waco Moms offers a Giving Tuesday | A Local Nonprofit Guide to make it easy for families to decide which charities to give to this year.

Giving Tuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and designated as generosity and giving back to your local community.

Giving Tuesday is a wonderful time to teach your children generosity and kindness. Involving your children in the process of selecting and contributing to a nonprofit is impactful and raises generous adults.

Make Choosing a Charity Fun

Hold a family meeting and discussing your top Waco charities. Take a family vote on which charity (or charities) you will give to on Giving Tuesday. This teaches giving and is a lesson in voting.
Provide your children a set amount (or they could use their piggy bank), and they can donate to a Waco charity individually.
Pick the topic you are most passionate about.

Giving Tuesday History

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of deep-rooted generosity and was started in 2012 as a simple idea: a day encouraging people to do good.

Since the movement began, it has inspired hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Take a moment to review the options below. If there is a local nonprofit not listed below, please share it with us at [email protected].

Health

Community Cancer Association

For more than 50 years, Community Cancer Association (CCA) works with local cancer patients to address some of the financial issues that occur as a result of their health condition. CCA helps with outpatient drugs and medicine, pain control, symptom management, and prescription co-pays.

Cradled

Cradled is a support group for adults experiencing the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, early infant loss and infertility.

Friends for Life

Friends for Life provide support systems and services that empower seniors and people with disabilities to live their best lives as independently as possible.

Heart of Central Texas Independent Living Center

Heart of Central Texas Independent Living Center (HOCTIL) is dedicated to the promotion of independence for persons with disabilities through self-determination and to advocate for persons with disabilities for equal access and actively participate in their community.

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels Waco provides home delivered meals for homebound seniors five days a week throughout McLennan, Falls and Hill counties. Besides a nutritious hot meal, Meals on Wheels provides regular social contact through the volunteers, helps maintain independence, and relieves caregivers who usually prepare meals.

Talitha Koum Institute

Talitha Koum Nurture Center is a brain development program addressing the mental health and cognitive needs of children from 8 weeks to 5 years. This nonprofit offers a faith-based goal to love everyone, every time.

Children

CareNet

CareNet offers compassionate care in a confidential atmosphere to discuss pregnancy options and sexual health, while respecting each individual. It also offers practical support for individual, physical and practical needs.

Imagination Library of Waco

Is the local affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and is responsible for enrolling children and funding the program. Imagination Library of Waco currently serves six zip codes in the heart of Waco with the goal to expand to all of McLennan County.

Isaiah 117 House

Isaiah 117 House provides a comforting and safe environment for kids who are waiting for placement in the foster care system. This nonprofit supports the children who have been removed from homes, as well as the case workers one of the hardest days of their lives.

Inspiración

Inspiracion serves families with children 0-4 years of age living in the Waco school district. This unique, dual-language, two-generation program provides parenting education classes to empower parents. The purpose is to equip parents with knowledge and skills that directly impact their children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development in early childhood classes. The mission promotes school readiness.

Methodist Children’s Home

The Methodist Children’s Home serves children, youth and families through residential programs on the Waco campus and MCH Boys Ranch, and through transition services, foster care and a variety of community-based programs.

The Cove Waco

The Cove is a teen nurturing center designed to provide a safe space for students experiencing homelessness to access the resources they need to thrive.

Together for Good

Together for Good (TFG) creates pathways for the local church to come alongside vulnerable children and families in Christ-centered ministry to ensure that families never walk alone.

Abuse Victims

Advocacy Center

The mission is to promote healing of children and crime victims through advocacy, collaboration, prevention, and treatment. They provide crisis intervention, case management, SANE exams, and trauma informed counseling for Human Trafficking victims.

Family Abuse Center

The Family Abuse Center offers a free, safe and confidential place for adults and children to begin to experience life without violence. Our professional staff listen, advocate and provide moral support to all those seeking our services. We offer counseling, transportation help, job and life skills education, and more.

Lovely Village (previously Jesus Said Love)

This is a healing community for survivors of sexual trauma. The goal is to Awaken Hope and Empower Change. Twenty years of experience has shown the need for safe housing, a stable community, living wage jobs.

Unbound

Unbound offers comprehensive case management services including crisis intervention, criminal justice system-based advocacy, financial assistance, social service advocacy, transportation services, and assistance with writing victimization statements for law enforcement.

Community Development

Christian Women’s Job Corps

CWJC provides free GED and low-cost Job Training Classes to the women of McLennan County. This helps them transform their lives, families, and communities through spiritual, personal, and professional success.

Habitat for Humanity

Waco Habitat for Humanity builds homes for families in need of a safe, healthy, and affordable housing. When a family helps build a place they can call home, they are also building a better community and life for themselves.

Junior League of Waco

The Junior League of Waco is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

Keep Waco Beautiful

For 45 years, Keep Waco Beautiful has worked to keep the city clean and beautiful. Volunteers make Waco more beautiful and a sustainable place to live so that its citizens are more likely to thrive.

Mission Waco

Mission Waco strives to address poverty in our own backyard through hands-on compassion. We empower the poor, equip and mobilize the middle-class and engage systemic issues to develop the whole person and the whole city.

Prosper Waco

The Prosper Waco initiative an environment where all members of the Waco community are able to improve their education, health, and financial security.

Startup Waco

Startup Waco serves the community by creating a thriving culture of entrepreneurship. They champion entrepreneurs of all types by breaking down traditional barriers, collaborating with like-minded institutions and filling gaps.

Sunshine Recovery House

The mission is to support marginalized women of Central Texas while recovering from addiction. They offer recovery programs and transitional housing and makes a lasting impact on our community.

The Waco Foundation

The Waco Foundation promote solutions to community challenges, strengthens our local nonprofits, and engages philanthropists to make a long-term impact. The purpose is to provide solutions to community challenges while helping to manage charitable assets.

Waco Cultural Arts Fest

The festival celebrates and promotes the community’s diverse artistic and cultural life. The mission is to develops and enrich cultural capacity that benefits of the arts in the Greater Waco area.