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Program: Youth Development Grants Year: 2003
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Program: Youth Development Grants
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ALBANY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
773-583-1387
4419 N. Kedzie, 3rd Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Kirk Noden Executive Director
albanypark@sbcglobal.net
773-583-1387
Size: $30,000
2003
Youth Development Grants
In 2001, the Albany Park Neighborhood Council began Project Y, a youth-led organizing project that engaged local youth in organizing campaigns around specific issues. Since then Project Y has developed a core of 25 youth leaders and a membership base of 125 youth, successfully organized their base to press for the adoption of Youth Bill of Rights by the local police commander emphasizing the freedom from police harassment due to immigrant status, secured commitments from the Chicago Public School system for improved safety measures at a local high school and joining with a statewide organizing initiative that won the passage of legislation enabling undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at local public colleges and universities. Albany Park Neighborhood Council received a renewal grant of $30,000 to enable Project Y to involve 250 youth in local projects to increase school safety, improve community police relations and expand access to higher education for immigrant students.
APPALACHIAN WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP PROJECT
304-824-5660
8106 Court Avenue
Hamlin, West Virginia 25523
Shelly Gaines Executive Director
304-824-5660
http://www.awlp-wv.org
Size: $30,000
2003
Youth Development Grants
Founded in 1996, the Appalachian Women's Leadership Project (AWLP) seeks to help girls and young women become active decision-makers in their own lives and communities. AWLP works with about 80 girls and has a core leadership group of y young women. When AWPL was founded seven years ago, there were 4 junior high/high schools, and 16 elementary schools in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Since then nine elementary schools have been closed or consolidated due to budget cuts and a declining student population resulting in long commutes, larger class sizes and diminished programs and services for students. Through the Girls Resiliency Project, AWLP is engaging girls and young women in an organizing campaign to halt the closing and/or consolidation of more schools. AWLP received a $30,000 grant to expand its membership base and core leadership, as well as to continue the anti-consolidation and school closings campaign in Lincoln County.
BROOKLYN ACORN
New York Agency for Community Affairs
718-246-7900
88 3rd Avenue, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn,
Lorna Blake Board Chairperson
nyacorn@acorn.org
718-246-7900
http://www.acorn.org
Size: $30,000
2003
Youth Development Grants
In 2002, after a successful youth-led campaign to stop the elimination of funds for a school based prevention program, the Brooklyn chapter of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) officially launched the Association's first youth organizing project. The ACORN Youth Union trains and organizes youth in local public high schools around school and community issues. Hazen's $30,000 grant will help the ACORN Youth Union expand its base of leaders and members, create a citywide youth steering committee, as well as pursue campaigns to increase summer youth employment opportunities for local youth and halt the practice of racial profiling of youth in department stores.
