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Youth Development
Grants Awarded

Year Organization and Summary Amount Location Description
2022 Youth Leadership Institute $50,000 San Francisco, CA

This general operating grant continues the storytelling and policy work of Calafia- a youth media fellowship.

2022 Youth Communication $50,000 New York, NY

Youth Communication (YC) will leverage the transformative power of teen-written narratives to address the systemic issues of inequality that directly impact youth across New York City.

2022 The City School, Inc. $50,000 Dorchester, MA

The grant designed to the Youth Justice and Power Union will support BIPOC youth organizers and members ages 14-25 to lead basebuilding and campaign work to decrease the scope of Boston policing and shift funding to youth jobs, affordable housing, and community-led safety and wellness.

2022 Oakland Kids First $70,000 Oakland, CA

This general operating grant supports Oakland Kids First (OKF) to build power and equity for high-need Oakland students by providing transformative youth leadership programs, amplifying youth voice in student organizing campaigns that improve school culture & climate, and activating youth power to advocate for policies that increase educational equity.

2022 Naitonal Economic and Social Rights Initiative $40,000 New York, NY

This grant supports the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a national coalition of over 100 organizations fighting to end school pushout. Funds will advance local campaigns for Solutions Not Suspensions, engage youth in leadership structures and support collective national action.

2022 Education Law Center $40,000 Philadelphia, PA

This grant provides trainings, technical assistance, resources, and legal services to youth-focused organizations and youth. Education Law Center (ELC) aims to deepen understanding of student rights among Philadelphia organizations and youth to build their advocacy capacity. ELC will learn from the experiences of youth and elevate their voices in our advocacy.

2022 DRUM $60,000 Jackson Heights, NY

This general operating grant supports work to strengthen intergenerational organizing model through continuing to develop youth leadership in all aspects of DRUM’s Organizing work.

2022 Communities United $40,000 Chicago, IL

This grant supports Ujima.

2022 Communities United $100,000 Chicago, IL

This general operating grant supports work to develop sustainable youth leadership through a healing and justice approach to advance systems change and effective policy implementation aimed at creating supportive school climates, and shifting public investment from punitive to restorative approaches.

2022 Chicago Freedom School $40,000 Chicago, IL

This grant provides support for Chicago Freedom School’s NorthStar Liberatory Training Collective, which develops young leaders into trainers of trauma-informed, healing-centered practices that teachers, cultural workers, and youth workers can use in classrooms and youth programs.

2022 Californians for Justice Education Fund $80,000 San Jose, CA

This general operating grant will advance educational justice through youth power. Californians for Justice builds youth power through leadership development — deepening skills of youth so they can advocate for student-centered reforms — and organizing and advocacy to improve school systems and culture for low-income students of color.

2022 California Youth Connection $80,000 Emeryville, CA

This general operating grant will support statewide, youth-led outreach, training, and advocacy model, wthe work of  Foster Youth in Action program.

2022 Youth United for Change $60,000 Philadelphia, PA

This is a general operating grant to Youth United for Change.

2022 Temple University: University of Community Collaborative of Philadelphia $40,000 Philadelphia, PA

This grant will support for the Leadership Development Continuum, a series of after school and summer programs, internships, media production, and paid employment that enables young people to advocate for systemic change.

2022 RYSE Center $60,000 Richmond, CA

The grant provides general operating support to the RYSE Center.

2022 Philadelphia Student Union $60,000 Philadelphia, PA

This is a general operating support grant to Philadelphia Student Union.

2022 Oaklands Kids First $50,000 Oakland, CA

Oakland Kids First (OKF) builds power for BIPOC Oakland students through youth leader development, Oakland Youth Vote Coalition leadership, and building sustained election infrastructure in order to realize the historic Measure QQ – Oakland Youth Vote (OYV) campaign win after it passed with 67% of the vote in 2020.

2022 Mikva Challenge $85,000 Chicago, IL

This grant supports Mikva Challenge‘s Citywide Youth Council Program that promotes youth voice and youth leadership by providing young people with the knowledge, skills, agency, and access to have a meaningful impact on public policy decisions that significantly impact Chicago youth.

2022 Make the Road New York $60,000 New York, NY

This is a grant to Make the Road New York to support the Urban Youth Collaborative.

2022 Make the Road New York $60,000 New York, NY

This grant provides general operating support to Make the Road New York.

2022 Juvenile Law Center $50,000 Philadelphia, PA

This grant supports Juvenile Law Center‘s Youth Engagement projects that create opportunities for youth with experience in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to use their personal stories and experiences as a platform for social change in their communities.

2022 Coro New York Leadership Center $50,000 New York, NY

This grant supports the youth leadership development program goal of deeper sustainable partnerships and youth impact on policy and practice.

2022 Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth $115,000 San Francisco, CA

This is a general operating grant.

2022 Center for Court Innovation $50,000 New York, NY

The Center for Court Innovation’s Youth Justice Board is an after-school program that brings together young people to study and propose solutions to the public safety challenges that most affect them.

2022 Bend the Arc New York $60,000 New York, NY

This is a grant to Bend the Arc New York to support the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing.

2022 All Chicago $50,000 Chicago, IL

This grant supports the Youth Action Board of the Chicago Continuum of Care.