Grantmaking and Capacity-Building: Resourcing & Sustaining Youth Organizing

To strategically resource, build and sustain youth organizing efforts, the FCYO aims to:

• Regrant nationally through pooled funds and a fully supported, cost-effective, collaborative learning process

• Promote networking and infrastructure development to connect and strengthen youth organizing efforts, and support peer exchange and relationship-building;

Click here to read about the 2002 National Youth Organizing Exchange.
Click here to read about the 2003 National Youth Organizing Staff Retreat.

• Build the capacity of youth organizing groups, most recently through the Roots Initiative and the publication of The Roots Toolkit in October 2007.  This is the product of a three-year collaboration with youth organizing groups to study issues of sustainability in youth organizing and share the findings with the field.  Three main themes emerged from this research.  Each one represents issues critical to the field: Leadership Transitions in Youth Organizing; Negotiating the Relationship between Youth Organizing groups and their “Parent” Organizations; and Rethinking the Relationship between Youth Development and Youth Organizing projects. 

To download the Roots Initiative Toolkit click here.

(To obtain a complimentary, print copy of the Toolkit, please contact us at info@fcyo.org.)

• Strategically partner with key youth organizing intermediaries and youth-serving professionals to strengthen and support grassroots groups at all stages of development.