#GivingYouthDay is Sadie Nash Leadership Project’s take on the competitive nature of of the giving season, by inviting youth organizations to come together to share audiences, amplify each other’s work, and encourage collective giving to kick-off #GivingTuesday. Launched in 2024, this initiative centers collaboration over competition, reminding us that when we share resources and stand together, our impact grows stronger.

2025’s #GivingYouthDay is on Monday, December 1st. This year there are fifteen organizations participating in #GivingYouthDay.

Consider donating to Sadie Nash and our partner organizations listed below. We hope you’re able to learn more about an organization you weren’t previously familiar with.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

  • The Armory Foundation is dedicated to serving youth and its community by promoting excellence through a broad range of athletic, educational and community programs.

  • Butterfly Dreamz, Inc. advances the leadership and well-being of girls and all young people in high-poverty communities through holistic youth development programs and community-engaged research.

  • Day One partners with New York City youth to end dating abuse and gender-based violence through preventive education, legal advocacy, supportive services, and leadership development.

  • Figure Skating in Harlem empowers underresourced students in Harlem and the Bronx through education and the artistry of figure skating, building champions in life.

  • Girls Justice League (GJL) is a gender justice organization that is dedicated to educating and taking action for social, political, educational, and economic justice for girls and gender expansive youth in Philadelphia.

  • Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) works intergenerationally, through a Black feminist lens, to center the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color in reshaping culture and policy through advocacy, youth-centered programming, and narrative shift to achieve gender and racial justice.

  • Girls Write Now breaks down barriers of gender, race, age, and poverty to mentor, train, and connect the next generation of writers and leaders for life. Together, our community channels the power of our voices and stories to shape culture, impact industries and inspire change.

  • JAIA is a personal development and leadership organization for teens and young adults ages 16-21. Our mission is to co-create with youth to build healthier communities by promoting mindfulness, mental health literacy, and ethical leadership.

  • The Octavia Project uses the creative power of storytelling and community to provide young women and trans and nonbinary youth in Brooklyn with the support and tools to design their dreams and effect change in their communities.

  • At Peace in Schools, we are working towards a future in which every young person experiences an education in awareness, compassion, and belonging. We do this by bringing trauma-informed, equity-centered, and mindfulness-based social-emotional-learning to teens and adults.

  • The Urban Youth Collaborative is a student-led coalition of NYC youth organizing groups fighting to end the school-to-prison pipeline and transform the city’s public schools into nurturing, inclusive, and supportive learning environments.

  • Based in Manhattan’s Chinatown, The W.O.W. Project is a women, queer, and trans-led community organization working at the intersection of arts, activism, and youth development.

  • The Wyckoff House Museum's educational and farm-based programs build cultural and agricultural connections within our community, emphasizing immigration, food systems, and history. Our Garden Apprentice Program engages local teens through stewardship of our urban farm, by providing opportunities to learn and practice food justice principles in developing a close relationship with our shared food, local environment, and community.

  • Youth Represent’s mission is to use legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for Black, Latiné, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other intersecting systems of oppression harm the most.

#GivingYouthDay 2024

The inaugural #GivingYouthDay 2024 brought seven youth organizations across NYC together to celebrate our shared impact by championing each other’s work and fundraising as one powerful community.

Learn more about last year through our press release and by reading our former Director of Development and Communications, Samra Ghermay’s article about how #GivingYouthDay came to be.

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