OUR PARTNERS

DoSomething is grateful for the significant four-year commitment from the MacArthur Foundation, extending our partnership to 2026. Since our collaboration began in 2020, this partnership has demonstrated our shared dedication to equipping young people as catalysts for positive change worldwide. Together, we’re able to advance our mission across our three key pillars, each identified by the young people we serve. These pillars drive systemic change and equip young leaders to influence their communities and beyond, focusing on equity and justice, deepening civic participation, fostering economic mobility, advancing racial, LGBTQIA+, gender, and disability justice; climate and sustainability, promoting environmental resilience, just energy transitions, and individual sustainability; and safety and wellbeing, combatting the youth mental health crisis, promoting digital wellbeing, and building safer communities. We are immensely grateful for commitments like this that support the evolution of our work.

For nearly a decade, General Motors has been an unwavering ally of DoSomething, joining forces on vital road safety initiatives. Together, we've made significant strides, addressing diverse facets of road safety through innovative campaigns. Whether combating texting and driving with Crash Text Dummy, advocating for seat belt safety via Ride & Seek, or confronting speeding and reckless driving with Brake It Down, our collaborations have left a tangible impact.

In 2021, our efforts evolved to encompass the intersection of mental health and road safety with Road to Self Care where young people shared a mental health and road safety checklist to help keep their friends safe on the road. With a total of 11 impactful campaigns to date, we take pride in the enduring partnership we've cultivated and continue to nurture.

For the last several years, DoSomething and Allstate have teamed up to inspire young people to make a difference in their communities. This has included hosting hackathons with our members to develop campaigns at the intersection of education and racial justice. Through these hackathons we developed two new DoSomething campaigns, It’s (Not) All In Your Head, which mobilized young people to promote access to more diverse mental health resources in their school and Whole Histories, which crowdsourced a guide identifying gaps and opportunities for educators to provide more culturally competent history curriculum.

We have also developed campaigns to turn The Allstate Foundation’s other impact programs into powerful activation opportunities. For example, as part of their annual sponsorship of the Allstate (AFCA) Good Works Team, we mobilized young people to engage in service actions inspired by the commitment to service demonstrated by these college football stars. And,. most recently we are channeling viewers of the new Roadtrip Nation series, “The New Volunteers,” to take actions inspired by the stories of young changemakers profiled in the series.

DoSomething proudly teams up with GAP brands for its Do Good initiative, allowing shoppers to give back by donating their rewards to various organizations such as ours. As part of their family of brands, GAP supports initiatives and programs like DoSomething that equip young people and foster social change. GAP's commitment to our mission was further demonstrated as the featured sponsor of our 30th Anniversary event, Futures Ball. We appreciate corporate partners who share our vision of advancing the next generation and creating positive societal impact.

Despite its image as a bastion of civic engagement, DoSomething found that only 58% of young people believe in their ability to affect change as compared to 72% of their counterparts nationally. To address this gap DoSomething set out to form and co-lead the New York City Youth Civic Engagement Coalition in partnership with YVote and with support from The Charles H. Revson Foundation. The coalition boasts an impressive lineup of members from government, higher education, and community based organizations, including 18by Vote, Campaign Finance Board, NYC Votes, Citizens’ Committee for Children, CUNY SPS Youth Studies’ Intergenerational Change Initiative , Democracy Prep Public Schools, Generation Citizen, Global Kids, League of Women Voters of NYC, Mikva Challenge, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Press Pass NYC, Riley’s Way, Service Learning Project (SLP), YA-YA Network, Young Governors, YouthBridge-NY, Youth Power Coalition, and YVote.

To kickstart the work of the coalition, DoSomething conducted an ecosystem assessment to identify gaps and opportunities within the current NYC youth civic engagement ecosystem to serve as shared priorities for the coalition. Building on the ecosystem assessment, the coalition has been working to advance adoption of New York's Seal of Civic Readiness in schools, hosting gatherings to help young people amplify their civic voice, and building a cohesive digital hub to magnify civic involvement both within and beyond educational settings.

DoSomething Strategic (DSS) supported The American Red Cross in their work to develop a more holistic youth engagement strategy that can better serve the evolving needs and interests of youth volunteers today and in the future. To develop this strategy, DSS fielded surveys with DoSomething members and current volunteers of The American Red Cross to better understand the future of youth volunteerism and forces shaping how best to reach and engage volunteers with the full set of volunteer programming The American Red Cross has to offer.