Your gifts support LGBTQ+ youth to survive, thrive, and lead.
Support LGBTQ+ youth empowerment
You can be a part of sustaining a safe and supportive space for LGBTQ+ youth to lead, learn, talk about their experiences, make friends, build leadership and professional skills, learn about and fight for social justice, make art and music, build community, gain the support, referrals, advocacy skills, mentorship and confidence needs to successfully navigate the struggles they face.
Support youth to survive, thrive, and build sustainable lives. Support Groups and related activities foster resiliency, pride, self-advocacy, and self-care. Youth work with peers and adult mentors to address the obstacles they face. Art, music, writing and other programs engage youth in healing trauma through creative expression.
Sustain youth leadership and professional development through staff positions, Fellowships, internships, leadership programs, and Board membership. Stonewall Youth is youth-led and is committed to empowering youth to lead by providing the training, resources, and support necessary for youth to maximize their leadership within Stonewall Youth and in their communities.
Encourage life-long learning: We build a community of growth, mentorship and learning. Youth gain support for their educational goals. We learn together about many critical topics, from street survival to college financial aid and dismantling oppression. We educate schools, agencies, and our communities through trainings and other events.
Work for positive social change. Along with educating youth and our communities about social justice, Stonewall Youth collaborate with local and statewide organizations to make crucial changes in state, local, and school policies that discriminate against or otherwise harm LGBTQ+ people and intersecting communities.
Donate
Make a tax-deductible donation online: Every dollar counts! Click the form above to donate through Bloomerang/Kindful, or choose the best way for you:
Paypal (@stonewallyouth)
We still love checks! You can send them to Stonewall Youth, PO Box 7383, Olympia WA 98507 :-)
Combined Fund Drive: If you’re a current or retired Washington State public employee, please consider supporting Stonewall Youth through the Washington State Combined Fund Drive. (Our code is 0316285).
Matching Gifts: Check to see if your workplace is has a "Matching Gift" program to match its employees' charitable contributions. If there is no current program, consider asking your employer to set up a Matching Gift program!
Make make a tax-deductible donation of stock to our brokerage account. (Contact Bryn at bryn@stonewallyouth.org for more information.)
We welcome offers of setting up a bequest or paycheck deduction.
Gender Affirming Clothing Closet
W endeavor to maintain a size inclusive, gender affirming clothing closet located at Stonewall Youth. Our clothing closet is mostly supported by community donations! Here are a few criteria if you’d like to donate:
The Clothing Closet takes a myriad of donations whether it be: clothes, gender affirming items, shoes, accessories, bags, socks, or jewelry.
We cannot accept underwear, Underworks binders, garments that glorify substance use, display oppressive or offensive text or images, and garments that need to be mended or repaired.
Please wash your donation or let us know if your donation needs to be washed.
The Clothing Closet is stocked by season. If you’d like to donate in the summer, please try to donate clothes that can be comfortably worn in warm weather. If you’d like to donate in the winter, please try to donate clothes that will keep folks warm and dry.
We ask that if you’d like to donate to the Clothing Closet, that you contact Stonewall Youth so that one of our staff can accept your donation by appointment. We also ask, at the time of your appointment, that you stay for the duration of your donation. Thank you.
Volunteer
Volunteers make Stonewall Youth’s world go around! There are many ways for you to engage in mutually inspiring service with awesome LGBTQ+ youth.
We provide extensive volunteer training and will help you tailor a volunteer experience that works for you. We appreciate folks with a strong social justice analysis who want to continue to build these skills with us and support youth leadership. We value leadership in the many different forms it may take! Interested? Click here for more information.
And consider joining our Board of Directors. You don’t need to be a know-it-all to join our Board! We value skill-building and skill-sharing. Click here for more information.
Help Us Rise With An Elevator
Stonewall Youth bought our building in 2018. We use the 1st floor, which is ADA accessible, for our activities. Now we’re ready to renovate the second floor so it will be accessible as well. It is unjust that so many places in our community aren’t accessible to all members of our community. YOU can help us in our quest to install an elevator and make other needed improvements! More information →
Support Youth Leadership and Community Organizing
LGBTQ+ youth run Stonewall Youth! Support youth empowerment by contributing funds to pay youth staff members, Fellows, and youth participants for their work and leadership training at Stonewall Youth and for their social justice work in our communities.
Give basic Necessities to low-income LGBTQ+ youth
Stonewall Youth provides many basic necessities to low-income LGBTQ+ youth, many of whom are homeless. This includes food, bus tickets, gas cards, gender-affirming items (such as cosmetics, wigs, and binders), school supplies, clothes, and more.
Send youth to Glitter Camp and other fabulous places!
Glitter Camp is our annual youth-led camp for LGBTQ+ youth and Stonewall staff, volunteers and Board members. Since 2010, we’ve gone an an annual excursion to for three or four days to a comfortable camp (heated cabins!) to plan and revision Stonewall Youth programs, bond, share, and participate in awesome workshops. More information →