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A Place Called Home - Provides South Central Los Angeles at-risk youth with a secure, positive family environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self respect and learn skills to lead a productive lifestyle free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surrounds them.
Advocates for Youth - Dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
America’s Promise Alliance - Multi-sector collaborative dedicated to the well-being of children and youth.
Beat Within, The - This site features writing done by young people who take part in the weekly YO! writing workshops in San Francisco's juvenile hall.
Campus Activism - Strengthens progressive social movements around the world through the sharing of contacts, event information, ideas and resources.
Campus Greens - A national student-based, non-profit organization dedicated to building a broad-based movement for radical democracy on America's high school and college campuses.
Campus Progress - A project of the Center for American Progress to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide; counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus; and empower new generations of progressive leaders.
Choices Campus Leadership Program - The Feminist Majority Foundation started the Campus Program to inform young feminists about the very real threats to abortion access, women’s rights, affirmative action, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights posed by right-wing extremists. FMF works with students on college campuses to effect change at the grassroots, national, and global levels.
CityKids Foundation - CityKids teaches young people problem-solving and decision-making processes that include themselves as part of the solution. Through programs focusing on self-esteem, health and education, CityKids learn to communicate positive values to their peers. CityKids' messages are shared via grass roots programs, television appearances, live CityKids Repertory performances, videotapes, books, interactive workshops, events, focus groups, and other innovative youth communication.
College Media Network (CMN) - The largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the United States.
Destiny Arts Center - An innovative Oakland, California, youth development organization incorporating arts education and violence-prevention for youth ages 3-18.
First Call -Child and youth advocacy coalition in Vancouver, British Columbia.
freecuklture.org - Organizing center of a new student movement to support free speech, free software, and free culture.
General Union of Palestine Students - Aims to unite Palestinian students on campus and provide a forum for social, political and cultural interaction.
Girls Inc. - Dedicated to inspiring girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Provides educational programs to American girls, particularly those in high-risk, underserved areas.
Global Youth Connect - Working to build a community of youth working to defend human rights and social justice and to inspire and empower a new generation of youth to act for meaningful social change.
Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) - A leader in the national movement to unionize graduate students, GESO works to represent and promote the interests of graduate students at Yale. GESO has won higher stipends for incoming students, better wages for teachers, free health care coverage, teacher training and career services support for graduate students.
Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) - Dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States. HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential agent for social change which must be responsibly and proactively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice.
Huckleberry Youth Programs - A community-based agency founded on the belief that adolescence is a turbulent time during which many young people are at risk for life-threatening crises that include drug and alcohol addiction, physical and sexual abuse, emotional illness, physical illness (including HIV infection), family breakdown, homelessness, delinquency and suicide. Huckleberry Youth Programs provide San Francisco and Marin county adolescents with services ranging from prevention to crisis intervention to stabilization and growth.
June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE) - Helping a diverse group of students achieve high academic standards, to grow into independent, reflective thinkers, and to build connected, socially just communities, both inside and outside of school.
Larkin Street Youth Services - Helps young people find alternatives to street life by developing the skills, resources and strategies to achieve stable housing and economic self-sufficiency.
Left Hook - A radical youth journal based in the U.S.
Medical Students for Choice (MSC) - MSC is more than 5000 medical students and residents representing students at more than 100 medical schools across the U.S. and Canada. MSC works with other national groups (and individual medical schools) to encourage medical school and residency programs to add training in abortion to their curriculum.
Muslim Students Association (MSA) - Serves Muslim students during their college and university careers by facilitating their efforts to establish, maintain, and develop chapters of Muslim Student Associations, Unions, Organizations, and Islamic Societies.
National Center for Children in Poverty - Identifies and promotes strategies that reduce the number of young children living in poverty in the U.S., and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under age six who are growing up poor.
North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) - NASCO is an association of campus cooperatives in Canada and the U.S., providing student cooperatives with operational assistance, encouraging the development of new student cooperatives, and serving as an advocate for student cooperatives.
People and Planet - Student action on world poverty and the environment.
Positive-Youth Foundation (PYF) - A non-profit organization created for youth, by youth to promote awareness of bigotry through music and culture in order to educate and foster dialogue.
Project on Youth and Non-Military Alternatives (Project YANO) - Software for educating young people about the realities of military enlistment and introducing them to nonmilitary alternatives for skills training, community service and college financial aid.
Rock the Vote - Dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and helping young people realize and utilize their power to create change in the civic and political lives of their communities.
SchooltoPrison.org - Provides a password-protected forum for impact litigators, direct services attorneys and other legal advocates across the nation to share ideas and strategies to challenge the push-out of children from schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. With the common goal of challenging the school-to-prison pipeline, members of the community can exchange litigation, policy, legislative, and organizing strategies and resources among allies. The site brings together experts from disparate legal fields including juvenile justice, educational rights, racial justice, disabilities' rights, immigrants' rights, and children's rights.
Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) - Student-run arm of the Sierra Club. The purpose of the SSC is to help students become effective activists. The Sierra Student initiates and organizes national, regional, and local issues campaigns, uniting individual students, campus groups, and environmental organizations to create positive change.
Speak Up! - A mobile youth civic engagement and voter registration campaign.
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) - A student and youth run national network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is to uproot environmental injustices through action and education.
Students for Free Culture - An international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) - Diverse coalition of students, faculty, and community members at the University of California, Berkeley with an interest in the human rights of the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation under Israeli occupation.
Students for Quality Education (SQE) -
Formed in 2007-2008 by students in the California State University (CSU) system to build the student movement for educational rights in public higher education.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) - An international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the War on Drugs is failing our generation and our society. SSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future, while fighting back against counterproductive drug war policies, particularly those that directly harm students and youth.
Summer Search -
A national leadership development program that helps low-income young people graduate high school, go to college, gain successful careers, and give back to society.
TakingITGlobal - Encourages young people to believe in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. Creates environments where people are exposed to new thinking, a diversity of voices, and new opportunities. Driven by youth, its goal is to foster a sense of leadership and social entrepreneurship through the innovative use of technology, creating meaningful experiences for young people around the world.
Tavis Smiley Foundation: Youth Leadership Training - Mission is to enlighten, encourage and empower black youth by providing leadership skills that will promote and enhance the quality of life for themselves, their communities and our world.
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) - A grassroots organization run entirely by youth and students. It develops youth leadership and run strategic student-labor solidarity campaigns with the goal of building sustainable power for working people.
University of California Students Association (UCSA) - Campaigning for student involvement in the governance of the University. The UCSA is a coalition representing the over 200,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the University of California. UCSA is the official voice of UC Students to the Regents, the legislature, the office of the Governor, and the Office of the President. UCSA's mission is empower students to advocate on their own behalf for the accessibility, affordability, and quality of the University of California system.
WritersCorps - A community-based San Francisco arts program oriented to the mentoring and skills development of at-risk youth.
Young Communist League - Fighting a system that promotes selfishness, exploitation, racism and police brutality, military intervention, discrimination against women; a system that robs young people of jobs and educational opportunities, and allows communities to be overrun by drugs and disease.
Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES) - A non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to join forces for social justice and environmental sanity.
Youth Law Center - A non-profit, public interest law office that has worked to protect abused and at-risk children since 1978. With offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the Center works nationally to serve children, focusing particularly upon the problems of children living apart from their families in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The goal of the Youth Law Center's work is to ensure that vulnerable children are provided with the conditions and services they need to grow into healthy, productive adults.
Youth Noise - A social networking joint for people who like to connect based on deeper interests than Paris Hilton's wardrobe and get engaged within a cause.
Youth Outlook - An award-winning monthly publication by and for young people who have stories to share. Features in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages.
Youth Portraits - Seeks to give voice to young people who have been in prison - to give them the tools to tell their own stories, to teach them an important set of skills, and to empower them to speak up about their own experiences.
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