📍 Livingston, New Jersey ✉️ LivingstonYouthLeaders@gmail.com 📸 @livingstonyouthleaders
Youth-led since 2021

Kindness, turned into action.

We are middle and high school students from Livingston, New Jersey who believe no one is too young to make a difference. Five years, eleven projects, and more than $30,000 raised and donated for people who needed it.

Livingston Youth Leaders members standing together at a Livingston Township Council meeting
Presenting our work to the Livingston Township Council.
$30,000+Raised and donated since 2021
11Community projects
325+Free health screenings
5Years of student leadership
The Fall Fiesta fundraiser outside Livingston High School
Who we are

A nonprofit run entirely by students

Livingston Youth Leaders started in May 2021, when a group of Livingston students heard about India's oxygen shortage during the peak of COVID-19 and decided a bake sale was better than doing nothing. It raised and donated $8,150.

Since then we have grown into a year-round group organizing fundraisers, supply drives, and free health clinics. Every project is planned, staffed, and run by middle and high schoolers. The goal is simple. We promote philanthropy among young people and build the next generation of community leaders.

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Why join us

What you get out of showing up

Service that counts for something, for your community and for you.

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Make a real difference

Every dollar we raise goes to a specific, named cause. Cancer screenings, food pantries, disaster relief. Nothing disappears into overhead.

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Lead, don't just help

Students plan the events, manage the budgets, and pitch the partners. You will run things, not just staff a table.

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Build your community

Work alongside students from across Livingston who care about the same things you do, planning together, solving problems together, and building friendships that outlast any one event.

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Take on a real role

Leadership positions open up every year, from fundraising and partnerships to finance and social media. You take on responsibility, not just a shift.

Our track record

Five years of showing up

Most recent first, from a full calendar of drives and clinics back to the bake sale that started it.

2026
  • Winter Coat Drive. Collected new and gently used coats, hats, gloves, and scarves for patients at Trinitas Hospital.
  • Seniors Tech Camp. Set up at Kearny Hindu Temple on 19 April to help 22 senior citizens with everyday tech, from video calls and scam spotting to photos and battery life, with free vitals checks alongside.
  • Essentials Drive. Ran 15 July to 15 August with six drop off points across Livingston, collecting travel size and sample toiletries, then packed them into 110 kits for Franciscan Charities of Newark.
2025
  • Health Screening Camp. Organized with Let's Save Ma, GKHET, and Lions International, offering free health checks. Completed 100 bloodwork panels, 100 vision tests, 100 hearing tests, and 25 mammograms.
2024
  • Fall Fiesta. Held 8 September outside Livingston High School with food stalls, a silent auction, a car wash and a book drive. Raised and donated $5,872 for Bridges Outreach for the Homeless and the Livingston Education Foundation.
  • Medical Equipment and Supplies Drive. An ongoing drive that has so far rehomed 18 pieces of equipment, including crutches, bath benches, walkers, rollators and canes, for uninsured patients in need.
2023
  • Spring Bazaar. A Mother's Day bazaar at the Livingston Oval on 7 May. Raised and donated $8,060 for free breast cancer screenings through Let's Save Ma and for Turkey earthquake relief.
  • Thanksgiving Food Drive. Run with GKHET through to 15 November. Collected 150 cake mixes and 108 stuffing mixes for St James Roman Catholic Church in Newark.
2022
  • Food and Art Fair. Held 5 September at the Livingston Oval with GKHET. Raised and donated $7,980 to fund HPV vaccination for children in India and humanitarian relief through Hope for Ukraine.
2021
  • Bake Sale. Held 23 May at the Livingston Oval. Raised and donated $8,150 for COVID-19 relief in India, funding oxygen concentrators and BiPAP machines in partnership with GKHET.
  • School Supply Drive. Collected backpacks, books and stationery through August for children in Ethiopia with the Future Generations Foundation, with a portion of the books going to schools in Newark.
Recent work

What we have been up to

A few highlights. The full archive lives on our projects page.

Volunteers beside the mobile mammography unit
2025 · Health

Health Screening Camp

A free clinic on 27 June with Let's Save Ma, GKHET, and the Livingston Lions Club, plus a mobile mammography unit. 325 screenings in one day.

Student volunteers at the tech help desk
2026 · Seniors

Seniors Tech Camp

22 senior citizens, one afternoon, and a lot of patience. Phones fixed, scams spotted, and free vitals checks at Kearny Hindu Temple.

Volunteers running the craft table at Fall Fiesta
2024 · Fundraiser

Fall Fiesta

Food stalls, a silent auction, a car wash, and a book drive outside Livingston High School. $5,872 raised and donated for Bridges Outreach and the Livingston Education Foundation.

“Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the whole world for one person.”

Radiate Kindness, the idea we started with
In partnership with

Organizations we work alongside

Our projects reach further because of the groups who partner with us.

GKHET

Our first partner. Together we sent oxygen concentrators and BiPAP machines to India during the 2021 COVID-19 crisis, and we have collaborated on health projects since.

Let's Save Ma

Free breast cancer screenings and mammography access for women who would otherwise go without.

Lions International

Co-organized our 2025 health screening camp, providing vision and hearing testing at no cost.

Bridges Outreach

Support for people experiencing homelessness across New Jersey and New York.

Franciscan Charities of Newark

Distributes the hygiene kits and essentials we assemble to individuals and families in need.

Livingston Education Foundation

Funds programs and resources for students in our own school district.

Hope for Ukraine

Delivered the humanitarian aid funded by our 2022 Food and Art Fair to families displaced by the war.

Future Generations Foundation

Carried the backpacks and school supplies from our 2021 drive to children in Ethiopia.

Ready to do something about it?

Whether you are a student who wants to join, a parent who wants to help, or a business willing to sponsor a project, we would like to hear from you.