Want to turn a day hanging out with friends into a fundraiser?
There are so many ways you can transform your hobbies and hangouts, even your Instagram/TikTok accounts into a quick way to fundraise for InvisiYouth! Here's some examples:
- Virtual Movie of TV Show nights (our volunteers love a Bachelor franchise viewing party and friends donate a small amount to their Venmo, and the host donates that via our website)
- Donation Bingo! Turn your Venmo account into a quick fundraiser tool! We send you a black grid of a view empty boxes and get your friends do pick a box and donate a few dollars!
- Fantasy Sports! Have your friends choose the winners of a Premiere League game or Superbowl and collect a pot of donations! Half goes to the winner and half donates to InvisiYouth!
- Buy some merch! Sell some of our bracelets!
- Coffee Donations! Make a cup of coffee and donate that few cents to InvisiYouth!
Want to give back but don't know what fundraiser idea you can turn into reality?
Shop and Events
A portion of how InvisiYouth fuses together our activism, leadership, and volunteer programs is through our new merch store, exclusively on Etsy! The InvisiYouth Charity SHOP is all about merch that gives back while adding some activism into your life with subtly.
There's three exciting elements to the Shop:
- 100% of sales goes directly towards InvisiYouth's FREE "medically adult-ish"™ programs and resources. So with every purchase, you're making a direct donation that directly impacts the young adult chronic illness/disability community.
- EVERY item is made and/or packaged by young adults living with chronic illnesses and/or disability in the community! Supporting our store with a purchase is supporting our hardworking "medically adult-ish"™ people!
- Each item in our store will fall into our subtle activism branding so you can make a statement without being too loud. This is for all the introverts and ally supporters that want to support our cause, and will instill curiosity in people. So when someone asks about your item, you can tell them about InvisiYouth and the teen/YA chronic illness/disability community.
As of December 2021, we're selling our first limited edition item: InvisiYouth Subtle Activism Color Block Bracelets!
These bracelets are handmade and adjustable, and made in InvisiYouth Charity's signature grey-yellow color combination with a sliding knot. They're gender-neutral, minimalist bracelets that can add a pop or color to your outfits with two-textured materials AND these are the first handmade bracelets to InvisiYouth's Shop. These bracelets are a great way to GIVE BACK while adding some minimalist style to any outfit!
Stay tuned to more products being added to InvisiYouth Charity Shop in 2022!
When the InvisiYouth Charity team works with teens and young adults with chronic illnesses, there is one program that we knew had to be incorporated into the execution of our platform in a unique, InvisiYouth way: fun events.
Each year, InvisiYouth Charity provides fun, free events to youth around the United States and internationally all on the same day called the InvisiEvents: Multi-City Series.
These series of events, funded solely by donations and fiscal sponsors, brings together teens and young adults with all types of chronic illnesses and their friends in different cities to enjoy a day of fun activities, to meet new people in their cities and abroad through social media conversations, and to learn from one another about the uniqueness of the teen-illness experience.
We provide our events to give so many young people with illness a much-deserved day of fun outside of their health struggles, where they can connect with other InvisiYouth members around the world, and educate each other on ways to navigate between illness life and youth life. InvisiEvents are held every year on the same day in multiple cities with the help of amazing volunteer cohosts. We also encourage them to bring friends and siblings who do not have illness to create an environment of inclusion. This lets our youth learn from each other about teen life and expand the understanding to the general youth population about what teen illness can be like so misconceptions can shed.
With all of our social media hashtags like #InvisiEvents, our teens and young adults can communicate with our entire international community while they also get to do fun activities like baking classes, amusement parks, sporting events, lunches and more.
*As of Q2 of 2021, the events program for InvisiYouth will be closing to focus more of our efforts on virtual resources, leadership programs and interactive activism campaigns. While events inspired and focused around InvisiYouth will remain, as well as the hangout-style fundraising events from our community and volunteers, this formal events branch of the nonprofit will close.*