About

Sunday Friends empowers very low-income families to break the generational cycle of poverty by fostering positive development in children while educating and guiding parents to support their children's life success. Under the Sunday Friends’ model, children and parents work together to learn, earn and serve the community.

For over 22 years, Sunday Friends, a recipient of YMCA Project Cornerstone 2019 Asset Champion Award, has supported over 10,000 children and parents with programs funded mostly by individual donors and grants and run in collaboration with hundreds of local community organizations. Collectively, we take pride in our operating model: “the working alternative to charity”. We don’t believe in handouts; instead we provide opportunities to serve, to learn, and to earn.