2020
Grants Awarded

This grant will support the Calafia Fellowship Program, which will make possible 1) the production of Calafia, a statewide youth policy journal; 2) close collaboration with youth advocates and data to set the Calafia agenda; and 3) pairing Calafia Fellows with professional journalists for mentorship.

This is a general operating support grant

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will advance local member-led campaigns for Dignity in Schools Campaign Solutions Not Suspensions, engage youth in leadership development, and support collective national action

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support efforts to provide training and technical assistance to youth-led/youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia, expanding their capacity to empower students as change agents and deepening their understanding of the legal solutions available to address educational barriers facing students.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant provides support for Chicago Freedom School’s Youth Leadership Training Cohort, which develops young leaders into trauma-informed healing justice trainers for teachers, cultural workers, and adult youth workers.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Bank Street’s Cohort 1 teacher residents through graduation from its Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Teacher Residency Program, launch the first-year residency for Cohort 2 teacher residents, and continue its work to secure government support to sustain the model.

This grant will support the growth of Learning Policy Institute’s Educator Preparation Laboratory initiative and to more deeply integrate social and emotional learning into the initiative.

Youth United for Change’s (YUC) model of community organizing brings diverse groups of youth together to target common concerns and act collectively on their own behalf, both to impact institutions and policy and to develop themselves as young leaders. As a Stone Leader for Change, Executive Director Rapheal Randall deepened his understanding of participatory budgeting as a means to expanding the democratic participation of Black and brown working-class communities.

The Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) builds the power of young people and provides youth with tools that will allow them to organize and build their own power in order to make a positive change in their schools and communities. As a Stone Leader for Change, Executive Director Fred Pinguel has had the opportunity to strengthen the organization’s communications and financial literacy in order to make it more efficient with planning, performance, operations, and to productively communicate PSU’s story.