Every act of giving creates light that moves forward
Funded by the Greater Green Valley Community Foundation, local businesses and donors.
Our Mission
Shine Forward Southern Arizona illuminates nonprofit needs and connects donors with causes that align with their values through a year-round initiative uplifting local organizations across Sahuarita, Green Valley, Amado, Arivaca, Tubac, Rio Rico, and Nogales. Our November campaign encourages giving of money, time, or energy, with the purpose of expanding nonprofit reach and keeping generosity local.
FOR NON-PROFITS
Register your nonprofit to join Shine Forward and start building your campaign. Once approved, we will help you share your mission and connect with donors across Southern Arizona.
FOR DONORS
Choose a nonprofit that aligns with your values from a variety of focus areas, including Animals & Wildlife, Arts & Culture, Community Support, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Wellness, and Youth & Education. Explore organizations making a difference across Southern Arizona and find meaningful ways to get involved through annual giving, planned gifts, or volunteering your time and talents.
FOR BUSINESS
Local businesses have long been the backbone of nonprofit organizations in our community. By becoming a Shine Forward sponsor, you help strengthen programs that support people across Southern Arizona.
Click to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, including our annual Sip, Swirl, Shop & Shine Forward fundraising event.
Our numbers that speak
We have numbers that push us to give in our best and make sure that we break our own records. We are happy to be growing and helping more day by day. Serving the Sahuarita, Green Valley, Amado, Tubac, Rio Rico, and Nogales Communities.
Shine Forward is launching with the Foundation's annual fundraising event in November 2026
Sip, Swirl, Shop & ShineForward
Month long giving begins
November 1 through 30.
Our PREMIER Partner
Featured Causes
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Amado Youth Center dba PPEP, Inc.
258 days leftThe Amado Youth Center offers evidence-based life skills and social skill training through multiple individual and community-based programs offered to children and families in the Amado area. Programs are free for participants and give at risk and high need youth opportunities to share in fun, experiential team building activities developing leadership skills that support their healthy development.
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Community Food Bank, Inc.
258 days leftOur programs include emergency food assistance and free meals, as well as a farmers’ market, community gardens, nutrition education, culinary training, support for local growers and food systems, advocacy, and more. We partner with over 300 organizations to serve five counties of Southern Arizona across over 23,000 square miles.
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Green Valley Gardeners
258 days leftYour donation will help us develop sustainable educational seminars, demonstrations and projects for the gardening public, including the promotion and use of arid land plants and the conservation of water.
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Equine Voices Rescue and Sanctuary
258 days leftEquine Voices rescue the hardest of the hardest cases of abuse, neglect, starvation, abandonment and so many more. Without our service to the community to help equines, most of our equines were facing a horrendous fate of feedlot and slaughter. Equine Voices has saved hundreds of equines in the past 22 years, and with 65 equines currently at the sanctuary, not only is it extremely costly, but the workload is also extreme, which is why our volunteer program is so critically important. Equine Voices began with five acres, and has expanded to twenty five acres. The new visitors center, barns, guest…
$0.00 donated of $10,000.00 goal
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