Youth Power Coalition
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Youth leaders and adult allies building an intergenerational movement for youth-led collective impact.
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What is our intergenerational movement for youth-led collective impact?
Youth Power Coalition is youth leaders and adult allies building an intergenerational movement for youth-led collective impact
- Intergenerational = young people, adults, elders, we all contribute
- Movement = self-organized, action-oriented, at scale
- Youth-led = young people most impacted by inequity lead
- Collective impact = both outcome and process. The outcome is every Black teenager is safe, every child has housing, every young person can shape the world. The process is community-led, comprehensive, co-creative, equity-centered, well-capitalized, caring, and courageous
How do we build the movement?
We support youth-led collective impact efforts with advocacy, community, leadership development, information, and resources.
Youth Voting RightsWe, young people at the Youth Power Coalition, fight for participation on Community Boards and for lowering the voting age. Nothing about us without us, we deserve the right to vote!
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Top COVID-19 ResourcesWe've partnered with youth-led organizations to curate the top COVID-19 resources for NYC youth and families. Please take care of yourselves and your communities, and we hope this list helps. ❤️
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Online HubVisit our online hub to share information across the entire city, from asks and offers of support to upcoming events to resources for youth and intergenerational leadership.
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Our other initiatives, past and present
- Youth Power Hub Learning Library: our movement’s best resources for youth-led collective impact
- 2020 Build Youth Power Convenings: youth leaders coming together to define youth power, collaborate inter-organizational, and envision the future
Why do we need this movement?
- Young people of color are most impacted by issues like education and climate change, so why aren’t we in the rooms where decisions about us are being made?
- Even when we’re in the rooms, from classrooms to city hall, we’re invited as advisors, feedback givers, and photo op participants; we don’t actually get a vote.
- So we organize, we advocate, we create our own spaces, but we need resources. Less than 10% of funding goes to Black, Indigenous, and people of color led nonprofits.
- We need a movement, we need you, to invest your time, money, and talents directly in our efforts, our priorities, our leadership. We’re the ones who truly know what’s going on.
- Only when young people lead can we create a world in which ALL young people are equipped to thrive