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Help Young People
Find Hope, Healing & Belonging

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Your Gift Makes a Difference

Every young person deserves someone who shows up, listens, and helps them navigate life’s challenges.

Your gift helps FLYY provide relationship-centered mental health services that meet young people and families where they are, with care built on trust, connection, and hope.

Join the FLYY Monthly Giving Society

Monthly giving provides the steady support that helps young people and families access connection, belonging, and hope all year long.

A young person and supportive adult create art together in a welcoming space, representing the Connection Society and the relationships that help young people feel safe, supported, and valued.
Two young people share a warm conversation and smile together, representing the Belonging Society and the connection, trust, and relationship-centered support that help young people thrive.
A group of young people stand together with arms around each other at sunset, representing the Hope Society and the long-term support that helps build brighter futures for youth and families.

Why Your Support Matters

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Mental health challenges don’t follow a schedule, and healing rarely happens in a single visit.

✓ Flexible, community-based support
✓ Relationship-centered care
✓ Services that meet youth where they are

Your support makes that possible.

Other Ways to Give

Give Needed Items Directly

Purchase art supplies, sensory items, games, snacks, comfort items, and other resources that directly support young people and families participating in FLYY programs.

Shop FLYY’s Amazon Wishlist

Give through your Donor-Advised Fund

Recommend a grant from your Donor-Advised Fund to support young people and families served by FLYY. DAF giving is a simple, tax-efficient way to make an immediate impact or plan future support.

Forward Learning Youth and Young Adults

EIN: 45-4942089

Visit the DAFDirect website

Donate Appreciated Securities

A gift of stock or mutual funds may allow you to avoid capital gains taxes while making a meaningful investment in the mental health and wellbeing of young people and families.

View our Stock Transfer Instructions

Give from Your IRA

If you are age 70 1⁄2 or older, you may be able to make a tax-efficient gift directly from your IRA through a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD). A QCD can help satisfy your required minimum distribution (RMD) while supporting FLYY’s mission.

Forward Learning Youth and Young Adults
EIN: 45-4942089

To learn more about IRA giving, contact: 

Darren Bell
Director of Operations & Finance
darren@flyy.org.

Note: The annual QCD limit is adjusted periodically by the IRS.

Create a Lasting Impact

Including FLYY in your will, trust, retirement account, or life insurance policy helps ensure future generations of young people and families have access to the support, connection, and care they deserve.

Interested in learning more? We’d be happy to have a conversation. Contact:

Michelle Sweet
Director of Development
michelle@flyy.org
608-354-1780

Questions About Giving?

Contact:

Michelle Sweet
Director of Development
michelle@flyy.org
608-354-1780

FLYY is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. EIN: 45-4942089
All donations made to FLYY are tax deductible.