Kids Helping Kids

Name

Kids Helping Kids

Legal name

Kids Helping Kids

Website

https://kidshelpingkidsct.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Community Service Programs

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Mentoring & Positive Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAD)

Keywords

• Youth volunteer programs
• Community service projects
• Youth leadership development
• Nonprofit youth initiatives
• Charitable community programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Stamford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Corporate Sponsorships & Donations: Local businesses and corporations donate $500 or more in supplies or funds, receiving recognition on the organization's website. Includes sponsors like ShopRite, Deloitte, Bankwell, and other Fairfield County businesses.
2. Individual Donations: Direct donations from individuals supporting youth-led programming. The organization accepts donations through its website and offers various giving options.
3. Fundraising Events (Pumpkin Bread Bake): Annual signature fundraiser where volunteers prepare and sell thousands of loaves of pumpkin bread. The Pumpkin Bread Bake has been a staple for over 15 years, with proceeds funding youth-led programming. Bread is prepared with professional bakery partners and sold in the community.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kids Helping Kids is a Stamford, CT-based nonprofit organization that empowers youth to design, initiate, manage, and lead their own service projects benefiting other children in the community. Core offerings include annual Signature Projects (Handled with Care Boutique, Gift of Giving, Hope Day, Smiles for School, Pumpkin Bread Bake), the Spark-a-Project youth leadership grant program, short-term Show Up & Serve volunteer opportunities, and leadership bodies (Youth Advisory Council and Junior Board of Directors).

Product overview

Kids Helping Kids operates a multi-component youth service organization with a unified mission of empowering youth to develop leadership skills through impactful, youth-led projects. The core offering consists of Signature Projects (large-scale annual events including Handled with Care Boutique, Gift of Giving, Hope Day, Smiles for School, and Pumpkin Bread Bake), Spark-a-Project (a youth leadership grant program for high school students to design their own service initiatives), and Show Up & Serve (short-term volunteer opportunities). Additional programs include the Youth Advisory Council for student leadership development and a Junior Board of Directors for alumni engagement. All programs work together to serve children in the Stamford, CT community while developing the next generation of leaders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Signature Projects Large-scale annual youth-led service projects that deliver tangible benefits to children from low-income families in the Stamford, CT community. Includes Handled with Care Boutique (free formal outfits for special occasions), Gift of Giving (toy and gift drive), Hope Day (mental health awareness event), Smiles for School (back-to-school supplies), and the Pumpkin Bread Bake (annual fundraising bake sale).
• Spark-a-Project Youth leadership program for high school students who design and lead their own service initiatives, receiving grants and mentorship to bring their ideas to life.
• Show Up & Serve Short-term volunteer opportunities (1-3 hours) for youth and adults to participate in pre-planned community service projects.
• Youth Advisory Council Leadership opportunity for students in 9th grade and up who have been with KHK at least 4 years, meeting twice monthly to plan large-scale service projects and events.
• Junior Board of Directors Board comprised of KHK alumni in college or post-grad careers that hosts annual alumni gatherings and outreach programs.
• Monthly Volunteer Orientation Required orientation for new volunteers to learn about KHK, its mission, volunteer expectations, and ways to get involved.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,000+ service projects completed to date
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cingari Family Markets (ShopRite)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerShopRite in Stamford partners with Kids Helping Kids for the Pumpkin Bread Bake, producing thousands of loaves. The Cingari family has been a long-standing community sponsor, with ShopRite stores serving as pickup locations and sales venues.
• Boys & Girls Club (Stamford/Greenwich)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner for the Spark-a-Project program where high school volunteers lead enrichment activities (tennis, guitar, art, STEM, dance, chess, etc.) for children at the Boys & Girls Club. The CEO of Boys & Girls Club Greenwich (Bobby Walker, Jr.) serves on the KHK Board.
• Stamford-Area SchoolscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with 140+ schools in the Stamford area for student volunteer recruitment and program delivery. Schools participate through student volunteers, hosting events, and providing access to students for service projects.
• Food Bank of Lower Fairfield CountyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization benefiting from Cingari family community service tradition of fighting hunger. Connected through community service initiatives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Youth Service America (YSA): National nonprofit focused on youth-led service, leadership, and civic engagement. Direct sector peer with comparable youth-driven service learning mission, larger geographic scope, and similar reliance on schools and corporate funders.
• DoSomething.org: Large youth-activism and volunteerism nonprofit that drives social-impact campaigns led by young people. Highly comparable mission and youth-led project model, but at significantly greater national scale and with digital infrastructure.
• Points of Light Foundation: Major volunteer-service nonprofit ecosystem (parent of GenerationOn and HandsOn Network). Comparable as a youth and community service infrastructure nonprofit; broader portfolio but overlapping programmatic and corporate-sponsorship playbook.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: Established youth-mentoring nonprofit sharing comparable nonprofit mission around youth leadership outcomes, school-channel partnerships, and corporate sponsorship base. Broader national scope and older demographic programming.
• Boys & Girls Club of America: National youth-development organization; Kids Helping Kids explicitly partners with the Stamford/Greenwich Boys & Girls Club for Spark-a-Project, and the CEO of Boys & Girls Club Greenwich sits on KHK's board. Closely comparable youth-development mission and corporate-funder ecosystem.
• 4-H (National 4-H Council): Long-running youth-development organization rooted in school and community clubs. Comparable in cultivating leadership through project-based work for K-12 youth, with comparable school channel penetration and adult-mentor volunteer model.
• City Year: Youth-service nonprofit deploying young people as mentors and volunteers in schools. Comparable mission around youth-driven service in school settings and similar corporate-sponsor base (Deloitte, etc.).

Direct peers

• GenerationOn (Points of Light): Youth-led service-learning initiative that empowers young people to design and lead community service projects. Closest model analog to Kids Helping Kids' Spark-a-Project and signature-project structure.

Emerging players

• VolunteerMatch: Digital volunteer-matching platform for nonprofits. Comparable adjacent volunteer-recruitment function, though operates as a tech-enabled intermediary rather than a direct service-program operator like KHK.

Regional players

• United Way of Western Connecticut: Regional United Way affiliate covering Fairfield County, including Stamford. Directly comparable as a local nonprofit operating in KHK's exact geography with overlapping corporate-sponsor base (ShopRite, Deloitte, PepsiCo sponsorship).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@KidsHelpingKidsCT
• Facebookfacebook.com/KidsHelpingKidsCT
• Instagraminstagram.com/kidshelpingkids_ct
• Xx.com/CTKHK
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kids-helping-kidsct

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Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

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