2002 Grants Awarded:

TOTAL: $620,410

Alternatives for Community and Environment Roxbury, Massachusetts
To support the development of new youth organizers in the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project and the work of REEP interns on existing ACE environmental justice campaigns.
$20,000

Boston-area Youth Organizing Project Boston, Massachusetts
To support expansion of BYOP’s efforts to increase youth power and create positive social change in the Boston area through: 1) chapter development; 2) curricula and training for youth
and adult youth organizers; and 3) capacity building.
$25,000

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities New York and Bronx, New York
To support the development of organizing skills and leadership among poor Southeast Asian youth to become agents of social change through organizing projects which address the conditions
of poverty and institutional racism/xenophobia of their refugee/immigrant community.
$25,000

Californians for Justice California, Statewide
To support youth and parent organizing in a statewide campaign for educational equity in California.
$25,000

Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment Greenville, South Carolina (statewide)
To support and strengthen CAFÉ’s youth organizing efforts in South Carolina as part of its mission to uplift working families by building a democratic and multicultural organization that increases the power of working families to win fair treatment.
$25,000

Center for Young Women’s Development San Francisco, California
To support the Sistas for Change Organizing Project, and its efforts to create real change in the juvenile justice system through building the power of young women involved in the juvenile justice system, on the streets, and living in poverty.
$25,000

Chicago Youth United Chicago, Illinois
To support CYU’s efforts to unite youth from the north and south sides of Chicago to gain leadership skills and demand change in their communities and to support outreach and alliance building.
$25,000

Chinese Progressive Association/PODER San Francisco, California
To support the ongoing development and implementation of Common Roots: Youth Organizer Program, a joint effort between CPA and People Organizing to Demand Economic and Environmental Rights (PODER) to develop campaigns led by low-income immigrant youth of Chinese and Latino descent in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission districts.
$20,000

Citizens for Community Improvement of Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa
To support the empowerment of Des Moines youth through organizing to make positive and systemic change on issues they care about, particularly educational issues.
$25,000

Citizens for Quality Education Lexington, Mississippi
To support CQE’s efforts to enable students, parents, teachers, and administrators to work together to create first-rate quality educational opportunities for children and families in Homes County and the state of Mississippi by holding public officials accountable.
$25,000

Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio Columbus, Ohio
To support the Youth Empowerment Project, which organizes and builds leadership among currently and formerly homeless youth to address issues they identify in breaking the cycle of homelessness.
$15,000
$7500 Technical Assistance

Colorado Progressive Coalition Denver, Colorado (statewide)
To support the Campaign to Stop Racial Profiling in the Streets and in Our Schools, a youth and community campaign to fight the unlawful and discriminatory treatment of people of color by law enforcement and school administrators and teachers in Denver.
$25,000

FIERCE New York, New York
To support the Save Our Space Campaign against gentrification and police violence on the Christopher Street Pier and in the West Village of New York City that adversely affects youth who are of color and/or LGBTSTQ and/or homeless.
$15,000
$8000 Technical Assistance

Gay Straight Alliance Network California (statewide)
To support GSAN’s Make It Real Project, a youth organizing and policy implementation project that will ensure implementation of California’s recently amended school non-discrimination policy covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
$25,000

Hope Street Youth Development Wichita, Kansas
To support Hope Street’s work to empower youth with leadership skills that will impact their educational, career and life choices that will better enable them to contribute to the social change of the neighborhood, the city they live in (Wichita), and the country now and in the future.
$20,000

Indianola Parent Student Group Indianola, Mississippi
To support efforts to build new accountable grassroots leadership and organization, involving students and parents, to impact the formation of public education policy in the Indianola public school district, fight racism in the school district, and create quality public educational opportunities for all families in Indianola.
$25,000

Kids First! Oakland, California
To strengthen the Kids First Youth Organizing Fellowship program through researching best practices, development of a multiracial citywide youth organizing curriculum, implementation of an authentic peer-to-peer youth organizing model and incorporation of a youth membership component.
$25,000

Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Bronx, New York
To support Sistas and Brothas United, a project that develops the capacity of low and moderate income young people in the Northwest Bronx to change their communities through leadership training, organizing campaigns, and direct action, while offering an alternative to at-risk youth.
$25,000

Philadelphia Students Union Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To support the work of empowering young people to transform Philadelphia’s public schools into places that ensure all young people a quality education, especially in fighting the proposed privatization of the school district, and in local school improvement campaigns.
$25,000

Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Reno, Nevada
To support the development of a youth-led, adult-assisted project that will culminate in the creation of a new statewide progressive youth organization to empower young people.
$10,000

Sista II Sista Brooklyn, New York
To support the community organizing work of SIIS focused on confronting violence against young women of color in East Williamsburg/Bushwick Brooklyn.
$15,000

Sisters in Action for Power Portland, Oregon
To support a girl-driven intergenerational organization that develops the leadership of low-income girls and girls of color age 11-19 to take leadership in their communities, work intergenerationally with low income women and women of color to build a community based organization, and to develop community driven campaigns to address social and economic injustice.
$25,000

Southwest Youth Collaborative Chicago, Illinois
To hire three youth apprentices through the Youth Organizing Apprenticeship Program, provide stipends for twelve youth interns in the Summer Youth Leadership Institute, and for programming and administrative costs associated with Generation Y.
$25,000
$4910 Technical Assistance

UPROSE Brooklyn, New York
To support UPROSE’s ongoing youth organizing efforts for environmental justice in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and for the establishment of the Youth Justice Initiative which will increase the number of youth activists and expand their leadership and training opportunities.
$25,000

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Bronx, New York
To support YMPJ’s youth organizing capacity, to further develop its organizing campaigns for environmental justice and police reform, to increase the number of youth organizers who receive stipends, and to provide additional training opportunities for youth organizers.
$20,000

Youth Organizing Communities Los Angeles, California
To support organizing efforts working to gain educational justice and equity and address the problems related to decreasing support of public education and disproportionate support of incarceration.
$15,000

Youth United for Change Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To support organizing efforts of low-income public high school students to improve their education and communities to better meet their needs including YUC’s efforts to organize against the state takeover and privatization of the Philadelphia public school system.
$25,000