Children are growing up in a world where learning, friendships, entertainment, creativity and opportunity increasingly happen online.
Unfortunately, so do exploitation, manipulation, grooming, trafficking and other risks that many young people, and the adults who care for them, are not always prepared to recognize.
A child should not become more vulnerable simply because they go online.
Protect Us Kids Foundation works to change that.
We help children and young people, particularly those living in rural and under-resourced communities, build the knowledge, confidence, resources and support they need to navigate the digital world more safely.
Protecting children online takes more than telling them to be careful.
It takes education. Prevention. Trusted adults. Strong communities. Research. Technology. Partnerships. And an understanding of how quickly online threats continue to evolve.
What Your Donation Makes Possible
Your support helps us turn prevention into action.
Donations help Protect Us Kids:
- Equip young people with practical online safety skills and the knowledge to recognize digital risks.
- Expand our Global Youth Life Network, connecting young people through education, leadership, peer engagement and digital safety programming.
- Deliver youth-centered training, workshops and community safety programs.
- Provide resources for families, educators, caregivers and community leaders navigating rapidly changing online threats.
- Strengthen community readiness through research, education and cross-sector partnerships.
- Build pathways for young people to participate more safely and confidently in digital spaces and emerging technologies.
- Support travel and program logistics that allow us to reach schools, community organizations and rural communities directly.
- Conduct research into emerging online risks affecting children and young people.
- Develop technology-driven approaches that strengthen prevention, early identification and access to trusted support.
- Build partnerships with schools, researchers, technology professionals, public agencies, community organizations and others working to protect youth.
Your gift helps give young people the protection, support and trusted guidance they need to grow up safer online.
Why Your Support Matters
The digital world is changing faster than many of the systems designed to protect children.
Young people move across social media, gaming platforms, messaging apps, online learning environments and emerging technologies every day. The risks they encounter do not always look like the threats adults were taught to recognize.
Exploitation can begin with a conversation.
A friendship request.
A game.
A photograph.
A promise.
A person pretending to be someone they are not.
That is why prevention has to begin before a crisis.
Young people need to know how to recognize risk, where to turn for help and who they can trust. Parents, caregivers, educators and communities also need the tools and information to support them.
The responsibility for protecting children online cannot rest on children alone.
Families, schools, technology providers, community organizations, researchers, government and industry all have a role to play.
Protect Us Kids relies on sustained support to:
- Operate the Global Youth Life Network and youth-led safety programs.
- Deliver awareness, education and prevention initiatives in rural and under-resourced communities.
- Support research into emerging digital risks affecting children.
- Maintain the technology, compliance, safeguarding and volunteer infrastructure necessary to deliver programs responsibly.
- Build and sustain partnerships that help us reach more young people and communities.
- Continue developing new approaches to online safety as technology and threats evolve.
A sustainable funding base allows this work to continue throughout the year rather than only when project-specific resources are available.
Your Donations at Work
We work to make every contribution meaningful.
Your support helps fund the programs, people, technology, research, outreach and operational safeguards required to deliver our mission responsibly.
That includes direct youth programming, educational materials, community workshops, travel to schools and communities, research, technology development, volunteer coordination, child safeguarding, compliance and the infrastructure necessary to keep our programs operating safely and effectively.
Your support helps put prevention, education and trusted resources closer to the young people and communities that need them.
Building What Comes Next: The We-Rise Portal
Protecting young people online also means preparing for what comes next.
The We-Rise Portal is part of our long-term vision for a secure virtual environment where young people can access digital safety resources, education, trusted support and connections to mental and behavioral health resources when needed.
Our goal is to create a space that supports prevention, early identification of risk, responsible use of technology and human-led support while respecting the privacy and trust young people deserve.
Your support helps us continue moving this vision forward while sustaining the programs and community work already happening today.
Reaching Kids Where They Are
Not every child has access to the same level of technology education, digital safety resources or community support.
Some young people are navigating the same online risks with far fewer resources around them.
Protect Us Kids works to help close that gap.
Our work reaches young people through schools, community organizations, youth groups, virtual programs and local partnerships. We combine youth education, research, technology, public health, cybersecurity and community engagement to build stronger systems of prevention around children.
Sometimes that means teaching young people how to recognize unsafe online behavior.
Sometimes it means helping parents and educators understand new digital risks.
Sometimes it means supporting youth as they lead their own peer-to-peer safety efforts.
And sometimes it means bringing resources directly into communities where specialized support may otherwise be difficult to access.
The goal is the same: help young people stay safer wherever they learn, communicate, create and connect.
What Your Gift Can Help Support
Every contribution matters.
Your gift can help support:
- Digital safety resources and educational materials for young people.
- Training materials for community workshops and youth sessions.
- Youth-led awareness and peer education initiatives.
- Travel and logistics for outreach to schools and communities.
- Research into emerging online threats affecting children.
- Development of technology-driven safety tools and resources.
- Continued development of the We-Rise Portal.
- The safeguarding, compliance and operational infrastructure needed to deliver programs responsibly.
Whether you give $10, $25, $50, $100 or more, every gift helps us continue this work. Please consider donating today and sharing this fundraiser with others who believe a child’s safety should not end online.
Thank You
Your support makes it possible for us to keep showing up for young people who need education, protection, trusted guidance and stronger systems of support around them.
Online spaces will continue to evolve.
So will the risks.
Our commitment is to make sure the work of protecting children evolves with them.
A child’s safety shouldn’t end online.
Thank you for standing with Protect Us Kids Foundation and the young people we serve.
With gratitude,
Protect Us Kids Foundation
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