Our Campaign

Your gift on Giving Tuesday will help support our mission to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline.

What is Giving Tuesday?

We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. Each year, on the Tuesday immediately following Thanksgiving, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

It’s a simple idea. Just find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to come together to give something more. Then tell everyone you can about how you are giving. Join us and be a part of a global celebration of a new tradition of generosity.

The Youth Advocacy Foundation (YAF) was established in 2001. We are the non-profit arm of the Massachusetts juvenile public defender agency: the Youth Advocacy Division (YAD) of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS).

For nearly twenty years, we have been working to protect and defend Massachusetts' most vulnerable youth. Some of our key successes include:

• Changing how Massachusetts youth interact with the criminal justice system;

• Fighting for the establishment of regional juvenile public defender offices in Massachusetts;

• Advocating in favor of raising the age to be tried as an adult to eighteen years of age;

• Calling attention to the grave injustice that is sentencing juveniles to life without parole.

A gift from you helps ensure Massachusetts' most vulnerable youth have access to the educational advocacy and services that they deserve.

The Youth Advocacy Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.