Youth Development
Grants Awarded

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This grant supports Ujima.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The grant provides general operating support to the RYSE Center.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

This is a general operating grant.

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.

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

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