Giving Friends

Giving Friends supports families in New York City and surrounding counties who live in poverty, shelters and residential treatment centers, helping to build a positive foundation for their future. We hand deliver gifts of new toys, clothing, school supplies, infant care needs and other essentials during the holiday season and throughout the year. Giving Friends is funded through grassroots fundraising efforts, community partnerships, local drives, events and corporate sponsorships

Delivering essentials to struggling families and help break the cycle of poverty.

Goal One: Support families by providing basic essentials to help them focus on getting life on track.

Goal Two: continue to expand our holiday toy drive to more families

Goal Three: focus on new moms and babies, support the journey from the very beginning

We support our team every step of the way. We are volunteer and board based and driven. We appreciate and rely on everyones input, experience, suggestions and together create strategies to serve our community. Each individual brings value to our mission. We have committees led by team members with subject matter expertise on each project/program to lead us to successful outcomes. Works brilliantly everytime. Happy volunteers = happy events = happy communities

We have been lucky to partner with a local growing nonprofit where we have shared media coverage and community partnerships have flourished. We all share the same excitement to GIVE to our community, all in different ways, but all with the same hopeful outcomes. Each time, successfully. Recently we were able to deliver over 600 new coats and - three local nonprofits came out on the coldest day of the year (6 degrees) and delivered new coats, shoes, hats and more to a large local community. This event brought smiles and warmth to the community AND all the partners reinforcing the pillars to come together.