What We Do
We pursue our mission by engaging in public outreach, funding youth-serving organizations, doing research with youth on important issues like youth caregiving and homelessness, and collaborating with other like minded institutions.
Our Initiatives
Our initiatives provide valuable insights into the development and implementation of effective programs and policies, and we actively foster spaces for youth engagement, ensuring that young people are not just beneficiaries but co-creators in the change-making process.
Pursue
We pursue our mission through a multifaceted approach that includes: strategic philanthropic investments, evidence-informed grantmaking collaboration with key stakeholders across sectors.
We target a variety of leverage points in the child and youth resiliency picture, including policy, community resilience, and youth leadership. We believe this will lead to long-term societal shifts in terms of resilient systems and increased supports for children and youth, including economic, familial, community, cultural and educational ones.
Support
The Helix Foundation has a strong Youth Advisory Team which is focused on working together on advocacy and research related to at-risk youth and mental health and well-being. The Youth Advisory Team is chosen each year for their lived experiences with homelessness, racism, homophobia, and more. See the Hub they created in 2026.
How we’ve propelled change
Too often, youth are seen as recipients of charity rather than as individuals capable of leading change. At Helix, we wanted to ensure that our philanthropic choices were guided and supported by youth with lived experience of poverty and discrimination. As such, we started a Youth Advisory Team with the express purpose of making funding decisions, and putting them at the forefront of our work. The outcome has been that our philanthropic decisions are better aligned with the communities we are trying to serve.
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