Current and Past Partners

Funders join the FCYO by making a grant in support of its programs and operations.
They thereby access:

• A community of learning though staff and a network of funders, practitioners and other field leaders
• Expanded scope and capacity through a centralized hub of information and staff support at a national, field-level perspective
• Tailored opportunities and focused programming for learning, strategy support and other technical assistance
• A pooled regranting mechanism that offers experiential, collegial learning and leverages resources for greater, national impact

Since 2000, the FCYO's membership has included over 45 funder and practitioner organizations including the following:

Active Element Foundation Albert A. List Foundation Beldon Fund Boston Women's Fund Boston-area Youth Organizing Project Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Catholic Campaign for Human Development Center for Third World Organizing Colorado Progressive Coalition Commonstream Fund Cricket Island Foundation Edward W. Hazen Foundation Cricket Island Foundation Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Ford Foundation Fund for Social Change/FAR Fund Hill Snowdon Foundation Inner City Struggle James Irvine Foundation Jewish Funds for Justice

Levi Strauss Foundation LISTEN, Inc. Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Merck Family Fund Movement Strategy Center Native Movement New World Foundation New York Foundation One Nation Enlightened Open Society Institute Overbrook Foundation Philadelphia Students Union Public Welfare Foundation Rockefeller Brothers Fund School of Unity and Liberation Southern Partners Fund Surdna Foundation Third Wave Foundation Tides Foundation Urban Underground William T. Grant Foundation

Current Board Members (2008)

The FCYO Board consists of practitioner and foundation representatives from across the country who work in close collaboration with staff.

Elizabeth Sak Cricket Island Foundation Soyun Park Community Learning Project Carmen Balentine Edward W. Hazen Foundation Loren Harris Ford Foundation Nat Williams (co-chair) Hill Snowdon Foundation Maria Brenes Inner City Struggle Brinda Maira Merck Family Fund Taj James Movement Strategy Center Evon Peter Native Movement	Erlin Ibreck Open Society Institute Rini Banerjee Overbrook Foundation Eric Braxton Formerly, Philadelphia Students Union Naomi Jackson Rockefeller Brothers Fund Robert Sherman (co-chair) / Jee Kim Surdna Foundation Monique Mehta Third Wave Foundation Reggie Moore Alexie Torres-Fleming Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice Amy Dixon Jewish Funds for Justice