WAYS TO STAY INVOLVED
Free Arts NYC
A non-profit that empowers youth from underserved communities through art and mentoring programs to develop their creativity, confidence, and skills to succeed.
NYC Parks
Volunteer and give back to your local neighborhood parks in clean-ups, re-planting/gardening and connect with nature.
Bowery Mission
Serve a meal, tutor and mentor clients, offer a special or professional skill.
Food Bank For NYC
Help sort and deliver food in the metropolitan area.
PETITIONS TO SIGN
Sign: Protect Abortion Access in Texas
Sign: Abortion Rights in the US
Sign: The Climate Action Petition
DONATE TO FOOD-RELATED CAUSES
Heart of Dinner
Works to fight food insecurity and isolation experienced by Asian American seniors—two long-standing community issues heightened by the pandemic, delivering weekly care packages that are filled with hot lunches, fresh groceries, pantry essentials, and bulk ingredients while supporting local small businesses.
God’s Love We Deliver
An organization that provides nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves.
DONATE TO GUN REFORM
Gays Against Guns
An inclusive group of LGBTQ people and their allies committed to nonviolently breaking the gun industry's chain of death.
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.
The Coalition To Stop Gun Violence
The CSGV develops and advocates for evidence-based solutions to reduce gun injury and death in all its forms.
DONATE TO CHANGE
Color of Change
They challenge the corporations that need to be challenged. They challenge the politicians who need to be challenged. They’re powered by those who want freedom from racism and injustice.
Campaign Zero
They support the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.
Unicorn Riot
They expose root causes of dynamic social and environmental issues through amplifying stories and exploring sustainable alternatives in today’s globalized world.
DONATE TO CITY EFFORTS - NEW YORK
The Liberty Fund
They give individuals the freedom and choice to contest charges, reduce the number of NYers subjected to pretrial detention and support the overall wellbeing of clients through additional services and resources.
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
They help end pretrial detention, secure freedom for those detained by ICE, and support urgent needs post-release.
DONATE TO THE FUTURE
Embrace Race
They create tools, resources, discussion spaces, and networks that help nurture resilience in children of color and help raise kids who think critically about racial inequity. (especially for WHITE PARENTS)
DONATE TO LGBTQ+ ORGS
Translifeline
They’re a grassroots hotline offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis, for the trans community by the trans community.
The Transgender District
They were founded by 3 Black trans women and they create an urban environment that celebrates the transgender tipping point in the US/World and educate others on the deep profundity of transgender culture & their contributions to the liberation of humankind.
House of GG
They create programs, services, and resources that positively impact the lives, history, and visibility of Transgender, gender questioning, and gender nonconforming people.
Trans Justice Funding Project
They are a community-led funding initiative supporting grassroots, trans justice groups; run by and for trans people.
BreakOUT!
They seek to end the criminalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans.
DONATE TO IMMIGRATION FUNDS
Black Alliance for Justice Immigration
They educate and engage African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice.
Families for Freedom
They seek to repeal the laws that are tearing apart our homes and neighborhoods; and to build the power of immigrant communities as communities of color, to provide a guiding voice in the growing movement for immigrant rights as human rights.
New York Immigrant Freedom Fund
They pay immigration bonds for community members who are unable to afford it.
Make the Road New York
They build the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.
DONATE TO HUMANITARIAN SUSTAINABILITY
Solidarity Engineering
Our mission is to provide community-driven, public health-focused engineering for people in crisis.
DONATE TO THE ARTS
Artshack
Their mission is to make ceramic arts more accessible to people of all abilities and ages.
ART ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUTH
BRIC
The BRIC Education team works closely with schools and community-based afterschool providers to integrate arts and media student-centered activities into afterschool programming.
Free Arts NYC
The Teen Arts Program supports teens and young adults, ages 13–21 who are interested in exploring the arts academically or professionally.
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