Friends of Karen
- purpose: to provide emotional, financial and advocacy support for children with a life-threatening illness and their families in order to help keep them stable, functioning, and able to cope
- more info: Charity Navigator, BBB Charity
Friends of Youth
- purpose: partner with youth and families to provide the relationships, resources, and skills they need to attain personal growth and success
- more info: COA Accredited, Charity Navigator
QUEERSPACE collective
- purpose: creates space for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth to feel safe and empowered to be their true selves
- more info: CenterLink, Charity Navigator
HomePlate Youth Services
- purpose: uplifts and empowers young people experiencing housing instability through community building, education, and access to services and resources
- more info: Charity Navigator
Detroit Parent Network
- purpose: a network of parents working to build and engage parents and others to ensure every child has a champion
- more info: Charity Navigator
Food Backpacks 4 Kids
- purpose: to meet the nutritional needs of hungry children and families at times when other resources are not available
- more info: Charity Navigator
Women & Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen
- purpose: a vital safety net that fills nutritional gaps for women and children in need while fostering dignity and respect, both within our restaurant and in the community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Children's Dental Services
- purpose: dedicated to improving the oral health of children from families with low incomes by providing accessible treatment and education to our diverse community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Everybody Wins DC
- purpose: to help children build the literacy and social-emotional skills needed to thrive in the classroom and in life
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local
Freedom University
- purpose: to educate and empower undocumented students and fulfill their human right to education
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia
Education for Liberation Network
- purpose: prepares the most disenfranchised members of our society, in particular low-income youth and youth of color, to fight for a more just world
- more info: Charity Navigator
Project POOCH
- purpose: providing life-changing opportunities for adjudicated youth and shelter dogs
- more info: Charity Navigator, GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Youth Services of Tulsa
- purpose: to value and accept all youth, supporting and challenging them to embrace their potential
- more info: Charity Navigator
Bright Futures Candles
- sells candles, provides employment for women in Home Start's housing programs
- more info: Charity Navigator, Home Start
Home Start
- purpose: to assure the safety and resiliency of children by strengthening families and their communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
WAR IN UKRAINE: help children with cancer
- medical support for children with cancer
- organized by Tabletochki Charity Foundation
Contractors For Kids
- purpose: to assist children and their families overcome obstacles that have unfortunately changed or have impacted their lives through the sickness or injury or death of a child
- more info: Charity Navigator
Grantmakers for Girls of Color
- purpose: to support transformative organizing work through the cultivation and mobilization of resources, particularly work that centers the wisdom and wellbeing of girls and gender-expansive youth of color
- more info: Charity Navigator
Support Student Mental Health in Northern Syria
- counseling support for students affected by conflict
- organized by Masarat Initiative
Committee for Children
- purpose: dedicated to helping kids build the essential human skills they need to grow, connect, and succeed
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends of Mascoma Foundation
- purpose: to foster educational advancements and nutritional well-being for students and their families within the Mascoma Valley Regional School District
- more info: Charity Navigator
A House In Austin
- purpose: to offer holistic programs to families on the west side of Chicago that foster responsive relationships between parents and children to lessen toxic stress, empowering parents to address the social and emotional wellbeing of their families for academic and lifelong success
- more info: Charity Navigator, CBS News
Advocacy Inc.
- purpose: to protect and promote the interests of at-risk children by providing low or no cost legal and support services to New Mexico families
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends in Adoption
- purpose: to keep the central focus on the needs of each child and to provide compassionate adoption services for the unique individuals involved in the adoption process
- more info: Charity Navigator
Lyte Collective
- purpose: to SUPPORT every young adult who contacts us, with whatever they need, for as long as they want us by their side; END harmful systems that cause young people to need our help in the first place; and BUILD a more just and equitable world together with all who aspire to do better by young people
- more info: Charity Navigator
Parenting for Liberation
- purpose: to support Black parents to heal from historical and ongoing trauma & interrupt intergenerational violence to build resilient and joyful Black families in community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Reclaim Childhood
- purpose: creates safe and inclusive spaces for refugee and local girls in Jordan to thrive by playing sports, working with coaches, and building community
- more info: Charity Navigator, GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Book Harvest
- purpose: books for every child; support for every parent; literacy for every community
- more info: Charity Navigator
YA-YA Network
- purpose: advances youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social transformation
- more info: Charity Navigator
Born Free of HIV in West Africa
- provides prenatal HIV care to prevent children from being born with HIV
- organized by GAIA Vaccine Foundation