How to Help
Your support helps young people build confidence, resilience, leadership skills, and stronger connections to their community.
Help eliminate barriers and create pathways for young people today
Your donation helps DTBY create meaningful programs, and experiences that give young people room to grow, lead, and belong.
Help youth Thrive through Change
Dare To Be Youth Charity creates meaningful opportunities for young people through leadership, wellness, mentorship, movement, and community-based programming.
Whether you donate, volunteer, sponsor a program, join a campaign, or introduce DTBY to your workplace, your support helps us build safe and positive spaces where youth can grow.
Choose the way you want to support DTBY.
Every gift helps us create more opportunities for youth to lead, connect, move, reflect, and grow.
Donate Online
Make a secure online donation to support DTBY programs, campaigns, events, and youth-focused initiatives.
Using Your Donor Advised Fund (DAF)
You’ll need to give this information to your financial advisor or DAF account manager.
Our registered charitable number: #816162242RR0001
Address: 551 Maple Ave Unit 313, Burlington, ON L7S 1M7
For questions or gift notifications, contact Shannon Tobin at shannon@dtby.ca.
Monthly Giving
Become a monthly donor and help DTBY plan ahead with reliable support for youth programming.
e-Transfer
Transfers can be emailed to info@dtby.ca. Please include your full mailing address in the notes section so DTBY can issue your tax receipt.
Corporate Sponsorship
Support DTBY through workplace giving, event sponsorship, employee engagement, or community partnership.
Legacy Giving
A gift in your will helps create a lasting legacy for youth, supporting programs that build confidence, connection, and brighter futures.
Join our Current Campaign
Start a fundraising page, join a campaign, invite your network, and help raise support for youth.
Create Your Own Fundraiser
Launch a third-party fundraising initiative, share it with your network, and help support youth through community action.
Give the Gift of Securities
A tax-smart way to support DTBY through eligible stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or other securities.
Tribute Gifts
Make a donation in honour, celebration, or memory of someone meaningful.
Gift Matching
Many employers match charitable donations. Ask your workplace if your gift to DTBY can go further.
Donation Matching
See if your employer will match your donation to DTBY and help double your impact for youth.
Donate Proceeds
Support DTBY by donating a portion of your sales, event proceeds, or campaign revenue. Complete our Cause Marketing Proposal Form to share your idea and help raise awareness for youth.
Volunteer
Give your time and skills to support youth programs, campaigns, community events, and outreach.
Volunteer With DTBY
Volunteers help bring DTBY programs, campaigns, and community events to life.
Adult Volunteers
Adult volunteers can support DTBY through events, youth programming, campaign support, fundraising, administration, mentorship, and community outreach.
Apply as an Adult VolunteerYouth Volunteers
Youth volunteers up to age 24 can get involved with DTBY programs, campaigns, community events, and leadership opportunities.
Your support creates real impact.
Every donation, partnership, volunteer hour, and campaign action helps create stronger opportunities for youth.
Start a Conversation
Interested in supporting DTBY through sponsorship, corporate giving, school partnerships, employee volunteering, fundraising, or community collaboration?
Fill out the form and our team will follow up with the next steps.
- ✓ Corporate sponsorships
- ✓ School and student partnerships
- ✓ Campaign and event support
- ✓ Fundraising and donor inquiries
- ✓ Newsletter & Program Impact
- ✓ The Leader Within Program for ages 14-24
- ✓ Financial Literacy Program
- ✓ Community Youth Council (CYC)
- ✓ In-kind Support
- ✓ Collaborating as a Community Partner
Support DTBY today.
Your support helps create meaningful programs, campaigns, and community experiences that give young people room to grow, lead, and belong.
Our Impact
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DTBY helps youth thrive, not just survive.
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These programs help young people thrive by capitalizing on their strengths to build and grow a healthy foundation of resilience to navigate life’s challenges.our stories
Hear first-hand how our volunteers have helped youth using educational programming, peer-to-peer support and workshops offered throughout the organization.invest in youth
Whether it’s $25 or $5 a month, your donations help build positive relationships and build community engagement through various volunteer and leadership opportunities today’s youth wouldn’t otherwise have.alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
Thank you to our incredible volunteers & ambassadors. Mentorship and volunteer initiatives play a vital role in helping young adults develop mental wellness, resiliency and confidence.
empower youth to thrive through change
By meeting youth where they are and guiding them from engagement to self-leadership and opportunity, we are shaping a generation of resilient, connected, and empowered young people. At DTBY, youth do not just participate. They grow into mentors, leaders, and a powerful force for authentic impact.
Since it’s first program launch in 2021, well over 3,600 youth have engaged in initiatives designed to prepare them for life beyond high school and inspire them to make an authentic impact.