Every month in 2024, we are highlighting the work of Give Lively member nonprofits in one category of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. 

The United Nations website states that “the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”

We find inspiration and insight from these selected nonprofits and hope you do too. Is your nonprofit engaged in similar work? Use the feedback tool at the bottom of this article to tell us about it.

‍SDG Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

The nonprofits

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Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia

This organization is committed to the belief that good design matters in every community and is a tool to achieve community revitalization goals, such as promoting economic development or creating healthy public spaces. Founded in 1991 as a pilot program of AIA (American Institute of Architects) Philadelphia, Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia (the Collaborative) is an independent nonprofit with a network of over 1,000 volunteers. Together, the volunteer design professionals and nonprofit partners have invested more than 100,000 hours in strengthening neighborhoods through over 600 community design projects.

Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia uses a Give Lively-powered Simple Donation Widget on its website. It also used a Campaign Page to fundraise for its yearly campaign, Leverage 2024 | Our home... our neighborhoods, which brought in close to $80,000.  

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Lititz Springs Park Inc

The mission of the Lititz Springs Park is to operate, maintain, develop and improve public park grounds in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This includes the Memorial Square and the Lititz Welcome Center. Although it was maintained by the Lititz Moravian Church until 1956, Lititz Springs Parks is today a nonprofit organization, is maintained through volunteer help and is not supported by tax revenue. The annual Fourth of July celebration and antique shows are the only fundraising efforts to keep the park thriving as a beautiful centerpiece to the town.

Lititz Springs Park has used a Give Lively-powered Event Ticketing page for the annual Fourth of July event each year since 2021 (see the Event Ticketing page for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024). 

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India Youth Fund

This nonprofit works with children aged 11-17 growing up in India's slums in conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation. India Youth Fund seeks to improve their daily lives by instilling life skills and job skills to break the cycle of poverty for them and their families. Operating in five major cities in India, the charity effectively delivers programs through after-school arts, sports and job skills training in sectors like photography, fitness, beauty and robotics. These programs build children’s confidence and self-esteem and encourage active decision-making. Since its inception in 2012, India Youth Fund has positively impacted more than 27,592 children.

India Youth Fund used a Give Lively-powered Campaign Page to fundraise over $100,000 during the 2024 India Youth Fund Annual Fall Soiree.

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Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan, Inc. (dba Gotham Park)

This nonprofit works with New York City agencies to restore public space and access beneath and around the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge. The goal is to create freely accessible, inclusive, flexible and environmentally sustainable recreation spaces that engage and delight all ages, abilities and backgrounds. In these newly reactivated recreation spaces, Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan, Inc. (known as Gotham Park) will provide arts, cultural, educational and athletic programming in a community underserved in all these areas. It was founded in 2021 when community members concluded that, without strong directed advocacy, funding and a plan to reopen, build and protect this neighborhood park, which had been closed for over a decade due to bridge repair work, it could languish for another 10 years. After only two years of advocacy efforts, the first acre of an envisioned nine-acre public space was opened on May 24, 2023, the 140th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Gotham Park links to a Give Lively-powered Core Profile page to collect donations through its website. The 2024 Founding Circle Campaign has raised over $425,000 from 86 donors. 

More nonprofits

For more in our UN SDG series, see the previous article.