Your Gift COUNTS!
One Million Safer Kids starts with YOU!
You can add to our count toward One Million Safer Kids with your donations! Give any amount to be used where needed most or choose from our Donation Drive options below to direct your gifts. All gifts are tax deductible in the US.
For each $10 you give, we can increase our Safer Kids count by at least one more child! In addition, your gift helps to create and share resources that can prepare thousands of people of all ages and abilities to take charge of the emotional and physical safety for themselves and their loved ones. See our Donation Drive options for ways your contribution can have an impact.
Book Drive:
Direct your gift to send Kidpower Books to schools and libraries across the U.S. and around the world and increase our Safer Kids count! Let’s make sure EVERY school, youth-serving organization, and community library has resources to help people learn important skills to make their kids safer.
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Help us send Kidpower books to each and every school and library in the US and electronic versions to your choice of organizations worldwide and we will add even more kids to our Safer Kids count! We know that our materials in the hands of adults who work with kids help make many more kids safer than we are adding to our count, so if you choose the organization these books go to you can also Tell Us how many more kids it will benefit than our count below!
Amounts below include shipping for printed books in the US. An international electronic book drive is below – or you can add to the gift to cover extra postage to ship a print book outside the US.
$35 = 4 Kids. Send print copies of both of our new Kidpower Safety Comics books for younger (3-8) and older (9-13) kids to a school or library of your choice in the U.S.. with a note saying this is from you. We’ll also add 4 kids to our Safer Kids count or more if you tell us!
$40 = 5 Kids. Send a print copy of our newest book, Bullying – What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe, to a school or community library of our choice in the US. with a note saying this came from you. We’ll also add 5 kids to our Safer Kids count!
$55 = 7 Kids. Send a print copy of the new edition of our now available comprehensive and highly acclaimed book, The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Advocacy, & Confidence
For Young People, to a school, library or youth organization of our choice in the U.S., giving them the information they need to help young people build powerful skills to grow safe and strong. We’ll also add 7 kids to our Safer Kids count.
$120 = 30 Kids. Send our cartoon-illustrated five-manual Teaching Kit to a classroom or youth group leader of your choice. These include step-by-step lesson plans and coaching guides to prepare adults to teach Kidpower safety skills to groups of children.
International eBook Drive:
$15 = 2 Kids. Send an electronic copy of our Kidpower Guide for Parents and Teachers in English or Spanish to a school, youth-serving organization, or library of your choice anywhere in the world, with a note that this is a gift from you.
$20 = 5 kids. Send an electronic version of our newest book, Bullying – What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe, to any school, library or NGO that YOU choose, anywhere outside of the U.S., and we will include a note that it is a gift from you. We’ll also add 5 kids to our Safer Kids count. (Please provide a named contact, email address and the name of the school, library or NGO so we can get the ebooks to the right people.)
Scholarship Drive:
Direct your gift to provide scholarships for low-income kids and families to take a Kidpower Workshop. No one should be without the skills to be safer because of a lack of funds. Help Kidpower train our most at-risk kids and families.
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$30 Covers the cost of a child participating in one of our school classroom programs.
$75 Funds e-mail consultation to help a parent, teacher, or other caring adult worried about the safety of their kids. We’ll add to the Safer Kids count based on the number of kids we are aware of who will benefit from each consultation.
$125 Creates the opportunity for a low-income family to learn and practice Kidpower skills together. We’ll add to the Safer Kids count based on the number of kids we know will benefit from each family attending a workshop.
$480 Funds the cost of 3 teens at risk because of disability or abuse participating in a Full-Force workshop with the head-to-toe padded instructor, which greatly increases their confidence.
$900 funds a parent workshop or a parent-child workshop for a school or youth-serving organization in need. We’ll add to the Safety Kids count based on the numbers participating.
$1,200 funds the cost of preparing a classroom teacher with a Kidpower in Action program including coaching and materials to incorporate “People Safety” skills into her or his classroom now and for years to come. We’ll add to the Safer Kids count based on the number of kids we know will benefit from the teacher training in the year that the teacher is trained. We will let the the teacher then report on additional Safer Kids as he or she shares the Kidpower as part of class curriculum.
$3,000 Gives domestic violence shelter staff training and materials to help the women and children they serve develop crucial safety skills. We’ll add to the count based on the number of kids we know will benefit from the staff training in the year that the staff is trained. We will let the staff then report on additional Safer Kids as they share the Kidpower information and skills that they’ve learned. (This will turn into hundreds of Kids we can add to the count for direct service every year!)
Publishing Drive:
Direct your gift to fund the creation of a new article or publication that can reach thousands of parents, teachers, and other caring adults.
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Contribute to one of the following projects to make countless kids safer by adding important resources to the violence prevention and self-defense fields. For gifts of $500 or more, you can be credited for your donation in the article or book acknowledgements you are supporting if you choose!
$500 funds the cost of a new article about safety that reaches thousands of people worldwide. We will add 500 kids to the Safer Kids when the article is published and another 5 kids (or more if someone tells us differently) each time the article is downloaded from our website or requested or used elsewhere.
$2,000 funds the cost converting another publication to an electronic format, greatly increasing the accessibility of this content. Current projects needing support are our Safety Comics in English and Spanish, Comprehensive Training Manuals, and Teaching Kits.
$20,000 funds the cost of developing and publishing a new book. Current projects needing support are: SafePower Self Defense – a cartoon-illustrated guide to teaching self-defense skills to people of different ages and abilities; Unlimited Adaptability – How to Teach People With Special Needs to Take Charge of Their Safety; and Teenpower – How to Take Charge of Your Safety and Your Freedom!
