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We are excited to share news about our upcoming leadership transition. Eric Braxton is moving on after more than twenty years in the FCYO family. Mónica Córdova will now serve as the Executive Director of FCYO.
Young Organizers Are Taking On the Greatest Challenges of Our Time. Donors Need to Take Notice.
FCYO is seeking highly-organized, passionate, and multi-talented candidates with a commitment to supporting youth-led social justice and skills for organizational administration to fill two new positions: Program Associate and Operations Associate.
Check out this recap of the YO-CARE informational webinar!
Join FCYO's informational webinar to learn more about The Youth Organizing for Climate Action and Racial Equity (YO-CARE) Capacity-Building Fund. This webinar will cover details about the program, requirements, and application process. There will also be a designated time for Q&A.
The YO-CARE Capacity-Building Fund is a bold effort to grow the power of youth organizing at the intersections of racial justice and climate justice. A year-long learning community, the YO-CARE Capacity-Building Fund will support youth organizers from both racial justice and climate justice organizations to deepen their analyses of the root causes of climate injustice and racial inequality, develop and sharpen their organizing capacities, and build and strengthen relationships.
Ford Foundation, The California Endowment, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and more take the FCYO’s Youth Power Pledge aimed at mobilizing resources to ensure that young people have the tools to drive social change.
Check out the recap of the Take Action for Power Fellowship Informational Webinar
FCYO is hosting an informational webinar about our newest program for youth leaders - the Take Action for Power Fellowship. This webinar will cover details about the program and project requirements, the application process, and time commitment. There will also be a designated time for Q&A.
The Take Action for Power Fellowship is a year-long leadership development program designed for emerging organizers ages 18-24 passionate about social justice and transformative systemic change. Through the Fellowship, organizers will receive political education and organizing training, opportunities for collective practice, a peer learning community, and financial resources that will support them to build and implement a social justice project in their own community. This program is about building collective leadership and requires fellows to apply and jointly work on a project in pairs or a group of three.
Congratulations to our Organizing to Win Lab cohort of grantees!
Our 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan: 20 Years of Youth Power is our largest and most comprehensive review of the youth organizing field to date! The scan identifies and offers an analysis of trends, opportunities, and challenges over 20 years and how the field has grown over time.
Our 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan is the most comprehensive review of the field to date! Register today for the #PowertoWin series where we will bring together key youth organizing leaders to discuss the field scan’s findings: http://bit.ly/power2winseries
FCYO is excited to announce the release of our 2020 Funder Scan Investing in the Power of Young People: 20 Years of Philanthropic Support for Youth Organizing, which evaluates the critical role philanthropy has played in shoring up a youth organizing field poised to meet the multiple challenges of this moment. This report is part of FCYO’s 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan, a series of four reports that together offer an in-depth look into a field that has grown in significant ways over the last two decades.
Our 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan is the most comprehensive review of the field to date! Register today for the #PowertoWin series where we will bring together key youth organizing leaders to discuss the field scan’s findings: http://bit.ly/power2winseries
Today, June 22, 2020, marks the beginning of a weeklong, nationwide call to support young people and their allies in the fight for police-free schools. This national week of action is being called by the National Campaign for Police-free Schools led by the Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) and Advancement Project National Office and supported by the Center for Popular Democracy, the Communities for Just Schools Fund, and the Funder’s Collaborative for Youth Organizing.