Support Our Youth This Holiday Season

Thank you for your donation to the Resilience Advocacy Project. Your support today will help us continue to work to ensure that all children have the resources they need to maximize their potential and achieve their dreams.

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Consider making a monthly donation:

  • For the cost of one lunch in a month (only $7.00/month) you can make an annual gift of $84.
  • For the cost of a cup of coffee and a bagel each week (only 12.00/month) you can make an annual gift of $144.
  • For the cost of a pack of candy each day (only $1/ day or $30/month) you can make a total annual gift of $360.

Your donation will have a tangible and positive impact in the lives of the children.

  • $50 enables a young person to participate in RAP’s Youth LEAP intensive peer advocacy training for a month.
  • $100 prepares 8 law students to provide critical legal rights information and advocacy assistance to vulnerable youth
  • $250 enables a cohort of peer advocates to empower youth throughout the city through self-advocacy and empowerment workshops.
  • $500 sponsors the production of RAP’s Youth Advocacy Fact Sheets for 6 months, providing low-income teen parents, homeless youth, and youth leaving foster care with critical legal rights information.
  • $1000 sponsors a youth advocacy desk at a youth-accessible community-based site, connecting hundreds of low-income youth to front-line advocacy support and empowering legal rights information.

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Help protect vital child and youth services

This budget season, fiscal proposals will have a very real and lasting impact on New York’s poorest children and youth. Help us protect access to vital supports and services by making a donation today!