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Health Initiatives for Youth is a multicultural organization whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of underserved young people through innovative youth leadership, popular education and advocacy, in pursuit of multi-level social change.

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Are you throwing any youth events in the bay area? Or are you looking for any youth events to go to? Do you have any news or announcements that youth might be interested in? Sign up for HIFY's Youth Email listserve and keep up to date with what's happening in the world of bay area youth! Simply send an email to HIFYYouthEmail@gmail.com with "ADD ME!!!" on the Subject Line. The emails are sent out every month.

 



How You Can Support HIFY


Other Ways to Support HIFY

Honor special people or occasions with your contribution. You may give a gift in honor of someone's birthday, graduation or in someone's memory. (We will send them a special acknowledgment that the gift was from you.) Or ask family or friends to give gifts to Health Initiatives for Youth in your honor.

Make an in-kind donation. Donations of office equipment and supplies help keep our administrative costs down.
View our current Wish List

Support HIFY as you surf the net! Check this out! HIFY is on goodsearch.com. If you specify HIFY before doing a search on the site each search is worth a penny. Yeah, we know it's not alot, but if we a few people to search the site each day it adds up!!!

Double your gift to Health Initiatives for Youth — have your employer match your gift. Ask your employer for the form, fill it out, give your gift to HIFY and your company will do the same once the paperwork is complete. You, the employee must do this; HIFY cannot request a match by your employer.

Donate your old clothes and goods to Community Thrift (on 623 Valencia Street near 17th in San Francisco) and identify HIFY as the recipients of a portion of the profits.

Join our Board of Directors. Contact Elizabeth Samayoa, Executive Director, at 415-274-1970 x21 or samayoa@hify.org.

 

Our Wish List

HIFY could definitely use donations of healthy Mac computers that operate in OS-X or above.

Other than that, in-kind donations of books and research relevant to our work, plants to brighten our office, and movie passes or other incentives for the young people we work with are always appreciated.