A 13-year-old’s first birthday cake inspired Celebrate with a Cake’s Houston-area work. Donors can fund personalized Cakes for Kids, sensory-adapted celebrations, ingredients, supplies, and delivery.
Lincoln youth giving gets much more useful once you stop treating “kids” as one category. Here are five sharply different ways a local donation can work in practice, including a haircut and backpack, a barbershop mentor, a safer night, a swimsuit, or a camp week.
The strongest youth giving near Wilmington has a physical address, even when that address is a bus stop. These three organizations put learning, creative work, and emotional support into the spaces children and families already use.
A school-supply drive can help for a weekend; a mentor or monthly volunteer can steady a year. Austin Angels and New Braunfels Angels stand out because Love Box and Dare to Dream turn foster care giving in Texas into sustained backup, not a one-day drop-off.
The youth groups worth your money in Omaha are the ones built for the shaky hours after 3 p.m., including after school, after practice, after a new foster placement, and after court. These seven charities understand that the real work starts when the official day ends.
Mustaches For Kids Omaha should have been a one-year joke. Instead, Adam Perez's 2009 idea became one of the city's most reliable engines for children's-charity funding, moving more than $9 million locally while keeping the whole ridiculous ritual accountable to kids.
Friends of the Children - Houston does not treat mentoring like a nice extra. It treats it like a staffed, 12+ year promise: one paid professional mentor, starting as early as age 4, staying through high school graduation.
When school moved home in 2020, Kings Row Community Life Center opened a distance-learning hub for more than 100 Reno families. Its weekday care, school transportation, tutoring, and on-site support now form the kind of education infrastructure working parents can actually use.
Missoula families do not live in neat grant categories; they live in the long hours after school, on no-school days, and through summer. These five youth nonprofits are the groups worth watching if you want a donation to cover real time, from age-3 classrooms to a clubhouse open 240-plus days.
These six Las Vegas youth nonprofits stand out because each one built a ritual around confidence. Those rituals include a first-Monday meeting, a parent-and-kid accountability night, a camp cabin, a homework table, a home visit, or a softball practice. That specificity makes them much easier to judge and much easier to fund well.
The 6th Annual Foster the Vine food and beverage tasting event is a unique celebration of culinary craftsmanship and community support, all benefiting the foster care programs of New Braunfels Angels. Held at the elegant Chandelier of Gruene, this event brings together some of New Braunfels’ finest restaurateurs, who will pair their exquisite dishes with regional wines, craft beers and cocktails for guests to enjoy. Much like the shifting colors of a kaleidoscope, each pairing and every moment of the night will reveal new and delightful experiences for our guests. Beyond an unforgettable evening of flavors and ambiance, Foster the Vine serves as a powerful fundraising effort to support foster families and youth through our Love Box and Dare to Dream programs, helping to create brighter and more colorful futures for those we serve.
Help fund the creation Code Girls United's next venture AI Academy, and invest in our future generation!
Code Girls United provides free, after school programs that promote career readiness and tools for self-sufficiency. We help rural and Native girls from low-income areas across Montana improve their social mobility by equipping them with the education and resources they need for future success in STEM related fields through our Summer Camps and our After School Coding & Business Program.
Through our program, young girls gain experience in computer science and coding fundamentals, marketing best practices, business development & entrepreneurship, and writing and public speaking skills which supports the development and proficiency in math, reading, and executive function learning. In addition to learning coding and practical business skills, the young girls who enter our program walk away with a new sense of self-confidence in their abilities and an empowerment to take control of their future.
We build skills with:
- Self Confidence: The young girls who enter our program walk away with a new sense of self-confidence in their abilities and an empowerment to take control of their future. Computer science and coding activities have been shown to help build up feelings of autonomy, confidence, creativity, and critical problem solving–in addition to skills building
- Computer Science: Computer science and coding activities teach students the importance of logical progressions, loops, and if-then statements, which directly translates to the students’ ability to understand how their own actions can affect others in a positive or negative way.
- Math: Girls in our program engage with mathematical concepts such as discrete math, logic, data structures, probability and statistics, and linear algebra. Through our hands-on use of MIT’s App Inventor or Python or Javascript our girls are exposed to topics such as: counting, summation, algebraic structures, predicate logic, first-order, higher-order, functional programming, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, databases, and much more.
- Literacy Skills: Girls in our program engage with mathematical concepts such as discrete math, logic, data structures, probability and statistics, and linear algebra. Through our hands-on use of MIT’s App Inventor our girls are exposed to topics such as: counting, summation, algebraic structures, predicate logic, first-order, higher-order, functional programming, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, databases, and much more.
To help our licensed operators better serve the community, the McKinney Amateur Radio Club (MARC) has city approval from Fairview, Texas, to install communications equipment on one of their water towers.
Equipment will include VHF radio repeaters, APRS service and a microwave link, requested by the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth TX, to assist with reporting. This coverage will provide backup communications support for local law enforcement and emergency services when called upon.
A Conex at the base of the water tower will hold all equipment to operate the antennas on the tower.
Expenses include securing a Conex, installing electrical, A/C, repeaters and running cable out and up the tower. Which includes 300' of heliax coax, connectors and fasteners. Hiring a certified climber.
MARC volunteer members will maintain the equipment.
Projected costs $19,000.00. We have secured $10,000.00 from an anonymous donor.
Your contribution to this project is appreciated.
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