Your support plays a significant role in the future of Youth Challenge.
Youth Challenge provides free transportation and programs, so we rely on the generosity of individuals, businesses, community organizations, and foundations to fund our services. With your support, Youth Challenge can continue to bring together young people with physical disabilities and teen volunteers to experience unique opportunities through adapted sports and recreation activities.
There are many ways to support YC. Learn more below!
Make an online gift.
Your donation provides sports and recreation for children with disabilities and their teen volunteers. Every donation helps us fill the gas tanks on our vans, purchase adaptive sporting equipment, and keep the lights on in the gym. No donation is too small to help. Click to give now, and while you’re there, you can make your gift monthly!
Have Your Gift Matched
Your generosity could be matched by your employer! Take advantage of your company’s matching gift program today.
When you make a donation to Youth Challenge, your employer may match your gift to provide greater impact to the young people served by YC. Please use the tool at the bottom of the page to search for your employer and see if they match gifts! Thank you for your incredible investment in YC!
CLICK HERE to use our matching gift look-up!
Attend a Special Event
From our Annual Benefit & Auction to Battle of the Bartenders, there’s a YC event for everyone and anyone. With events offered in every season, no matter your interest, you can join in the fun that is a YC event. Our annual events include Brats, Beer, & Brackets in March, the Annual Benefit & Auction in April, Where Will Color Take You? 5K Race in June, Battle of the Bartenders in August, and the Topgolf Outing in November. Click here for our current events calendar.
Corporate Support
Companies and other community partners are vital to supporting YC’s mission. Companies of any size can have an incredible impact on Youth Challenge through program and event sponsorship, cause marketing, or workplace giving. We will work with you to find a way to support YC that makes sense for your business – and helps get your name out there! Click here to learn more and get started!
Leave Your Legacy with Youth Challenge
You can support Youth Challenge into the future with a planned gift. Planned giving allows you to combine philanthropic goals with financial needs to support the YC mission and programs. Learn more about starting your planned giving with YC by clicking here.
Facebook/Instagram Fundraisers
Raise funds from your friends right on Facebook or Instagram! It’s easy to set up and funds are automatically transferred to Youth Challenge. Whether you’re celebrating an anniversary, life milestone, or your dog’s birthday, funds raised directly impact the young people served by YC! Click here to start your Facebook fundraiser.
Click here for information on conducting a successful fundraiser.
United Way
Wrote in Youth Challenge on the designation line when filling out your United Way Form. United Way gifts account for thousands in vital funding for Youth Challenge every year.
Other Ways to Give
There are a number of ways to support Youth Challenge. At this link you can sponsor a YC participant, view our wish list, shop to support YC on Amazon Smile, or get in touch with us to get your own YC fuel perks card to start racking up perks for YC!
Youth Challenge will not sell or trade any donor’s personal or contact information with any individual or organization. Please contact Chris Garr, Chief Executive Officer, if you have questions or concerns.
Thank you for helping us to provide kids of all abilities opportunities they would never otherwise have without Youth Challenge.
Youth Challenge is a private non-profit agency with IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status. If you have any questions on making a donation, please contact Youth Challenge at (440) 892-1001. Copies of YC’s financial statement and IRS 501(c)(3) letter are available upon request.