Ways to Donate
Youth Alive relies on individual donations to keep our doors open and our programs running. Your gift is vital to our success.
Youth Alive has spent 30 years educating and training young leaders, interrupting cycles of violence on the streets, and providing ongoing support to the wounded and grieving. With your help, we will continue to perform this essential, life-saving work for many years to come.
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Make a bequest to our violence prevention, intervention and healing work and become a founding member of Youth ALIVE!’s Legacy of Healing Circle
Leave a Legacy of Healing, Leave a Legacy of Hope
Here are some easy ways to leave your legacy that will assure a future of healing and prevention in Oakland and beyond. To join our Legacy of Healing Circle:
Remember Youth ALIVE! in your estate plan
Designate Youth ALIVE! as a beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan or other financial account
Make an immediate gift through your Donor Advised Fund
Letting us know that you’ve left a gift is the best way to ensure your gift is used the way you intend
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Sample Language for Your Will or Trust
“I give Youth ALIVE!, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 3300 Elm Street, Oakland CA, 94609, federal tax ID number 94-3143254, or its successor thereto, _____________________________* [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of the property] for its unrestricted use and purpose.”
Sample Beneficiary Designation
To designate Youth Alive as a beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan or other financial account, please use the following information:
Legal Name: Youth Alive
Address: 3300 Elm Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Tax ID #: 94-3143254
Before deciding about your estate plan, consult an estate planning attorney.
To learn more about how your gift will be put to use, contact Lauren Greenberg, Director of Development & Communications, at lgreenberg@youthalive.org
Join Youth Alive!’s multi-year force for giving. The Community Circle features five giving levels, each representing one of our long-time organizational values of Community, Innovative Leadership, Healing, Courage and Relentlessness. Fulfillment of your community builder commitment can be made using monthly installments
Community Builders pledge $1,000 or more per year for 5 years
Innovative Community Builders pledge $2,500 or more per year for 5 years
Healing Community Builders pledge $5,000 or more per year for 5 years
Courageous Community Builders pledge $10,000 or more per year for 5 years
Relentless Community Builders pledge $25,000 or more per year for 5 years
For more information, please contact Director of Development and Communications Lauren Greenberg at lgreenberg@youthalive.org, or 510-333-5620.
Show your Oakland pride! Purchase a limited edition Youth Alive Oaklandish hoodie.
Consider hosting a Meet Youth Alive tour! It can be virtual, in-person at our office, or a house party. It’s easy, quick and we can help you get it together so that more people learn about the impact of our programs for violence prevention, intervention and healing in Oakland.
How it works: As a tour host, you invite 10 to 20 of your people — friends, family, neighbors, coworkers — to log in to Zoom or come to our offices for an event that is inspiring, moving, informative and only lasts one hour.
What is a Meet Youth Alive tour: A ‘Meet Youth Alive’ tour is an overview of our work and programs. Your guests will hear client stories firsthand, they will hear from Teens on Target youth leaders and from our staff who work the streets of Oakland to keep the peace.
The goal of a Meet Youth Alive tour is to connect you to the work we do, to inspire you to help us achieve our mission, and to expand our network of friends and supporters.
We can help: Being a volunteer tour host is easy and a great way to raise awareness of the impact of violence and what can be done to prevent it. We can help you organize your tour! For more information on how to become a Youth ALIVE! volunteer tour host, please contact Denay Harris dharris@youthalive.org
Donation Inquiries?
Please reach out to Lauren Greenberg, Director, Development and Communications at: lgreenberg@youthalive.org.
Youth Alive
3300 Elm Street
Oakland, California 94609
Federal Tax ID number: 94-3143254