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OPS 2 - Youth and Community Organizing Today
Published in 2003, OPS 2 traces the historical involvement of youth in social change efforts throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and examines how the current phenomenon of youth organizing shapes community issues and community organizing. OPS 2 was part of the first three installments of the series, which looked at the fundamentals of youth organizing practice and its theoretical underpinnings.
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OPS 1 - An Emerging Model for Working with Youth
Published in 2000, OPS 1 was developed by LISTEN, Inc., then a training and support organization, and tackles the basics of youth organizing—origins, concepts, models, principles, and practices. OPS 1 was part of the first three installments of the series, which looked at the fundamentals of youth organizing practice and its theoretical underpinnings.
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National Youth Alliance for Boys & Men of Color 2015 Statement & Recommendations
A statement from the National Youth Alliance on Boys and Men of Color (formerly the Youth Table on Boys and Men of Color) released in 2015, which outlines recommendations for policy and philanthropic investment to truly improve the lives of boys and young men of color.
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New Forms & Tactics in a Changing Landscape
In April of 2015, FCYO held the second webinar as part of our new Youth Community Organizing Resource Exchange (Youth CORE), a set of projects that will seek to build a more powerful and well-connected youth organizing field. On this webinar, FCYO and field leaders will share lessons and strategy on building and expanding power in a new youth organizing landscape.
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Using the ReGenerations: Leadership Pipeline Tooklit for Transitions
February 18th at 1pm ET, the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) will hold the first webinar as part of our new Youth Community Organizing Resource Exchange (Youth CORE), a set of projects that will seek to build a more powerful and well-connected youth organizing field over the next three years. This first in a series of field-wide webinars, one component of the Youth CORE projects, focuses on the ReGenerations: Leadership Pipeline Toolkit produced by FCYO and the Movement Strategy Center.
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Building Power Through Voter Engagement: Opportunities and Challenges
In December of 2015, FCYO held the fourth webinar as part of our Youth Community Organizing Resource Exchange (Youth CORE), a set of projects that seeks to build a more powerful and well-connected youth organizing field.On this webinar, FCYO shared some of our lessons learned about youth organizing and voter engagement and attendees heard from two organizations that have successfully integrated voter engagement into their work.
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2010 National Youth Organizing Field Scan
FCYO's 2010 Youth Organizing Field Scan is a result of in-depth regional conversations, on-line surveys and one-on-one discussions with over 100 organizations. The field scan used a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to document trends, challenges and opportunities present in the youth organizing field at the time.
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Media in Action: A Field Scan of Media & Youth Organizing in the U.S.
From 2012-2015, Global Action Project, Data Center and Research Action Design conducted a national research project—Media in Action: A Field Scan of Media & Youth Organizing in the U.S. The project sought to understand how youth organizers are using media to advance social justice and movement-building work throughout the United States.
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Looking Forward: Youth Leading the Way Toward a Sustainable Planet
"Looking Forward: Youth Leading the Way Toward a Sustainable Planet”captures lessons learned from our grantmaking initiative, Regenerations: Youth Leadership Expansion for Environmental Justice (ReGen/EJ). This report provides case studies in two key areas – climate justice and clean water – and highlights the multiple impacts ReGen/EJ made on individual young people, organizations, the environmental justice community, and mainstream environmentalism.
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Now or Never: The Fight for the Millennial Generation
Released in 2015 in partnership with Quadrant Metrics, LLC, Now or Never is a research report on the youth civic engagement ecosystem in the current political landscape. The report examines how civic engagement leaders can look to the field of youth organizing for promising new strategies to assist them in increasing voter participation, passing beneficial policies, affecting redistricting in 2021, and changing how the Millennial Generation thinks about values and policies for their lifetimes.