Youth Movement Groups in the Bay Area
     
  • Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s (APEN) Laotian Organizing
    Project (LOP)
  • Californians for Justice
  • Center for Young Women’s Development
  • Communities for a Better Environment
  • Leadership Excellence
  • Schools Not Jails
  • Youth Making a Change / Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
  • Youth Space
  • Youth Together
  • Young Women United for Oakland
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    Organizations that Support Youth Organizing
         
  • Data Center - Research center that serves progressive organizing groups around the country and internationally.
  • Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing - A collaborative of youth organizing funders that do grantmaking to youth groups as well as educate other funders on the importance of youth organizing work.
  • Highlander Research and Education Center - A movement institution for the past 70+ years, Highlander trained many important organizers and leaders of the US civil rights movement and continues to support youth and community organizing in the southern US.
  • LISTEN, Inc. - A national intermediary dedicated to building the organizational capacity of youth movement groups through training, support and technical assistance.
  • Movement Strategy Center - Engages young people and adults across geography and sectors to build movements for social change.
  • Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network - A network of over 60 grassroots groups working in low-income communities and communities of color in the southern US.
  • Youth Action - Youth organizing intermediary focused on the southern US, which offers training and technical assistance to grassroots youth groups in rural and other underserved areas.
  • Youth in Focus - Provides support and training to youth groups on youth-led research, evaluation and planning.
  • Youth Media Council - Trains young people and youth organizations on media advocacy to strengthen the impact of these groups’ campaigns for equity and social justice.
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    Social Justice Movement
         
  • Applied Research Center - A nationally-recognized research center which published the groundbreaking report, Youth Rising, in 2003.
  • Center for Third World Organizing - National training and retreat center for organizers of color, based in Oakland, Calif. which runs the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP).
  • Generation Five - Works to end child sexual abuse within five generations.
  • Republican Protests
  • The Women’s Building
  • War Times - Newspaper dedicated to bringing alternative voices to the national debate on war and peace to local communities and organizations.
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