Donate

Thank you for your interest in supporting our work! Every dollar you give makes a tremendous difference in the lives of Evanston’s youth and their families. Below are a few examples of how your support makes a difference:

$50	Sends a youth on a 3-day camping field trip.
$150	Supports a family night where 25 parents learn about child development.
$750	Offers a youth a year of mental health counseling.
$2,000	Empowers a youth with a year of afterschool and summer enrichment.
$3,500	Provides a youth with a year of holistic Y.O.U. services, including daily afterschool and summer learning, mental health counseling, mentorship, and 24-7 crisis intervention.

We are able to make such a large impact with your support because we focus your resources on direct services, rather than overhead and administration. As an example, Y.O.U.’s occupancy costs are just 5% of our budget, compared to an average cost of 13% among similar youth development organizations. We realize this lower cost by nimbly sharing space with schools, churches, and libraries during their low-utilization hours rather than running all programs in our own space.

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“Thanks to Y.O.U., our students feel connected to school and to their learning. We see Y.O.U.’s impact every day in our classrooms. Y.O.U.’s tutoring, mentorship, and clinical counseling helps make sure that our students enter our school doors ready to succeed.”

- Dr. Eric Witherspoon
Superintendent, School District 202

Gifts of Securities

By giving securities (e.g., stock, mutual funds) to Y.O.U., you will make a real difference in the lives of youth, while avoiding capital gains tax on your gift. Making a stock gift to Y.O.U. is a two-part process. First, please contact Marianne Moberly, Director of Development, at 847-866-1200 x 231 or marianne.moberly@youevanston.org to notify her of your gift.

Second, please transfer the securities to the account of Youth Organizations Umbrella at Romano Brothers & Co. Wealth Management. Here are the key details your broker will need to make the transfer:

Clearing Firm = First Clearing LLC

DTC # = 0141

Account # = 1187-3345 FBO Y.O.U. Transfer Account

Our contact at Romano Brothers is Brett Larson at (847) 866-7700 if any questions arise.

In-kind Donations

Y.O.U. accepts in-kind donations to support and improve all areas of our organization. These can include office and school supplies, arts and crafts materials, and recreational supplies. These materials and equipment are valuable for our youth programs.

The program staff currently has a wish list of items to be used during recreational activity time. These items include:

Coupons for rentals of DVDs
TI83+ graphing calculators
Sports equipment including new soccer balls, tennis rackets, bike helmets, pool balls and cues
Washer/dryer
Comfortable couches and chairs for youth center
Large screen television
Camping equipment
New and gently used bicycles
New board games

To find out more about making an in-kind donation, please contact Marianne Moberly at 847-866-1200 x 231.

Empowers a youth with 10 years of ltransformative Y.O.U. support and services, from 3^rd grade to 12^th grade.