For the next 30 days – every day until Christmas Eve – Patch will bring you great ways to help spread holiday cheer past your front porch and that will help people and organizations across the area.

There are hundreds of supportive nonprofits in Oakland County (and tons right here in Troy) with heartwarming missions; we hope one – or several – will strike a chord with our readers.

We hope you'll take part in this 30 Days of Giving, and take the spirit beyond the holidays, because there is "need" all year long.

If you have a suggestion, post a comment in the section below or send an email to nancyh@patch.com.

And Happy Thanksgiving!