The Catalog for Giving of New York City Information

The Catalog for Giving is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming the lives of New York City children by identifying and providing crucial funding and operational support to emerging innovative community-based organizations that assist underserved youth throughout the City. Our Story The Catalog was founded in 1994, inspired by the idea that thoughtful donors would like to support the best emerging youth-development programs in NYC. Since that time, The Catalog has identified, funded and empowered more than 65 young programs, which in turn have served thousands of young people with programming in arts, sports, academics, mentoring, technology and more. What We Do Every three years The Catalog scours the City, and selects the best youth development programs from dozens of applicants. The organizations are between two and ten years old and have budgets under $1.5 million dollars. We provide “second stage funding” for a three-year period to help our member organizations grow from early success to self-sufficiency and long-range sustainability. We put our organizations through a rigorous screening process involving detailed operational and financial reviews, as well as site visits by our staff and Board. So when you invest your philanthropic dollars with us, you can rest assured that the children you are helping will receive the maximum benefit from your donation. The organizations we support are not your everyday charities – they’re truly breaking new ground by exploring new and better ways of helping kids. What they have in common is a proven track record for providing kids with self-esteem, motivation, crucial life skills, and academic support to make sure they are better prepared to lead happy and productive lives. By providing multi-year unrestricted support, The Catalog allows member organizations to invest in the future by hiring staff, increasing program capacity, improving their facilities and developing donor support.