ReGeneration examines the powerful visions and strategies of young people in the U.S. environmental justice movement. Movement Strategy Center interviewed groups across the country, and found that youth organizers in the environmental justice movement are creating new ways to expand leadership, build intergenerational alliances, work sustainably and bridge issue areas and communities. The groups profiled in this report offer models and strategies to reinvigorate every sector of the national progressive movement.
Bringing It Together reveals how youth organizing groups across the country are incorporating innovative approaches to support the holistic - emotional, physical, spiritual and political - development of their members. This report profiles six groups that are using a wide range of support strategies, depending on history and context. These new approaches are creating healthy lives in tandem with community change, and leading to a more sustainable social justice movement.
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Read a review of Bringing It Together by The Free Child Project
Strucual Racism and Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Implications. The Roundtable on Community Change at the Aspen Institute, February 2004. Includes comments on youth organizing's particular success in pushing racial equity outcomes as an explicit part of the mission and values of youth work.
The WORST PLACE TO BE BLACK in America: MILWAUKEE, WI.If you want know where black families fare the worst, where the lowest wages and life expectancy are, where to find the highest unemployment and the greatest number of single parent households among African Americans, you don't need an online survey. You certainly don't count the black businesses or the black elected officials. You count the black prisoners, and the former prisoners, and the ruined communities they come from and are discharged into. That's what this study did and here are the results.
From the Frontlines: Youth Organizers Speak, LISTEN, Inc. Spring 2004 A report by LISTEN, Inc. based on interviews of 52 youth organizers to understand, from their perspective, the importance and distinctiveness of the work.
Occasional Paper Series -A series of papers aiming to capture and document growing knowledge around youth organizing, and address key issues and questions commonly posed by funders and practitioners about the work and field overall.Click images below to read the Papers:
By Melissa Spatz. Occasional Paper No. 7. September 2005. Melissa Spatz challenges the notion of a homogenous Midwest, to map the contours of a growing and increasingly varied youth organizing field in and beyond Chicago.
Special Edition of Fall 2003 GCYF Insight- The FCYO and Edward W. Hazen Foundation jointly guest-edited a newsletter of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families, a membership association of over 400 grantmaking institutions. The newsletter underscores a paradigm shift, following the emergence of positive youth development, that emphasizes authentic youth leadersip in public life. The publication includes contributions about youth organizing, youth participatory research and youth media from the Southwest Youth Collaborative, Social Policy Research Associates, Youth in Focus and Youth Communications.
Links provided by the Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing
