How Can You Help

• Be an advocate for kids whenever you can. When you vote, volunteer time, or give a donation, ask the number one question: "Is it good for kids?"
• Become a friend of Student Advocacy by making a donation. You can make a general contribution or support one of our projects such as one focusing on young people with developmental disabilities, children who are learning disabled or ADD, youth with serious emotional problems and school problems, or students involved in the juvenile justice system. See Our Programs. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
• Volunteer to serve on Student Advocacy's Board of Directors. Volunteer to serve on the Overcoming the Odds Awards Selection Committee. Volunteer to work at our Parade of Pets event.
• Support our Overcoming the Odds Awards Dinner, our annual event which takes place each May. Community volunteers help us select the student honorees, arrange the dinner, and run the silent auction and raffle. We hope that you will attend the dinner and bring your friends. You can underwrite part of the event's cost, place a message or ad in our Dinner Journal, or donate an item or service to be used as a prize in the raffle or auction.
• Introduce Student Advocacy to your place of work. Your company may have a matching gifts program, a United Way Campaign, a gifts-in-kind program, or a foundation. Perhaps there is a wellness day or other program at which Student Advocacy could make a presentation about how we help families.
• If you belong to a club, organization, church or synagogue that would be interested in the work that we do, arrange to have us introduce Student Advocacy to your membership.

To pursue any of these suggestions or for more information, call us at (914) 347-7039 ext. 100.