The My Stuff Bags Foundation provides new belongings, comfort, and hope to thousands of children each year who must be rescued from abandonment, abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and neglect across the United States. Tragically, these children often enter foster care or crisis shelters with little to nothing of their own. By rallying widespread individual, corporate […]
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There are many ways for kids and teens to get involved with City Harvest’s work. Volunteer, run a food drive, fundraise or participate in any of the activities listed below. Let us know how you got involved, and we might feature you on our website, social or in our e-newsletter as a Harvest Hero—a young supporter
Special Olympics has a mission to transform lives through the joy of sport, every day, everywhere. We are the world’s largest sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities: with 4.4 million athletes in 170 countries — and millions more volunteers and supporters. We are also a global and social movement. Through the power of sports,
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At HODG (pronounced like “hawdge”) we get in all sorts of good trouble — we knock on doors and register voters. We donate blood and get arrested. We aren’t afraid to put our hearts, minds, our bodies into this. We call it “crop rotation activism”: focus on just one issue or action, it depletes your
Our mission is to prevent, reduce and eliminate poverty, hunger and homelessness. We do this by offering immediate assistance and long-term solutions. Our services are grounded in a deep respect for the dignity inherent in each human being. Volunteers must be at least 13 to be in-person. Please view our calendar of upcoming events HERE.
Project Cicero collects new and gently used books for children and young adults through book drives run by 100+ New York City independent, public and parochial schools. Collected books are transported to the distribution site where hundreds of student, parent and teacher volunteers unpack, sort, and display the books. Teachers from under-resourced NYC public schools pre-register
Every Monday for over 30 years, the HUC-JIR Soup Kitchen has served warm nutritious meals to our homeless and hungry neighbors in the Washington Square area. The student-run Soup Kitchen exemplifies the central role that social justice plays in the life of the College-Institute. It is a tangible way that we fulfill Isaiah’s prophetic call
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In the richest city in the world, no New Yorker should go hungry or have to choose between food and rent. That’s why we’re here—for the moms and dads working multiple jobs to feed their kids, the hustlers who skip a meal to afford the ride home from work, the students learning on empty stomachs,
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Foothill Unity Center, a multi-service agency, serves as the region’s primary provider of integrated services that help individuals and families move out of poverty to reach economic stability. Our program model helps to advance equity in the San Gabriel Valley community. We are providing access and opportunities, removing barriers for the low-income and working poor,
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Gear2Give is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by and run by teens that connects sports teams in underserved communities with new or lightly used sports equipment donated from the greater Orange County, CA area. In addition to kids’ sports teams, we also collect gear for cheerleading, dancers, gymnasts, and more. See our full list below.
