Financial gifts​ are essential to Young Life because regional and area staff are responsible for raising 100 percent of their budgets, which mainly include staff salaries and benefits, administrative costs and programming costs. As a donor to Young Life, you can specify how you want your money to be used — program expenses, funding a yearly event such as a banquet, sending a teenager to camp (campership), purchasing a much-needed van, you name it! You can also give to various missionwide initiatives, like to campership for kids from multicultural areas or to Young Life's ministry outside of the United States.