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Program: Youth Development Grants Year: 2007
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Program: Youth Development Grants
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CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV)
718-220-7391 x22
2437 Valentine Avenue
Bronx, New York 10458
Jane Sung E Bai Executive Director
718-220-7391 x22
http://www.caaav.org
Size: $30,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV) organizes low income Asian immigrant communities in Chinatown and the Bronx, New York. Through the Chinatown Justice Project (CJP), launched in 2000, Fujianese immigrant youth organize low-income Chinese tenants and immigrant street vendors to challenge displacement and gentrification in Chinatown. The Youth Leadership Project (YLP) based in the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx, focuses on combating poverty through economic development, employment, public education, criminal justice, immigration/anti-deportation, and now a new health campaign. YLP recently began research on the health of their community and launched the Southeast Asian Health Justice Campaign to address the health needs of their war-impacted community. CAAAV was awarded a $30,000 renewal grant to support the Youth Leadership Project and the Chinatown Justice Project’s continued work on these campaigns.
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO)
614-280-1984
175 South 3d Suite 250
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Bill Faith Executive Director
614-280-1984
http://www.cohhioyep.org
Size: $30,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
The Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) was founded in 1994 as a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to ending homelessness and promoting decent, safe, fair, and affordable housing for Ohio residents. The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) was established in 2000 to provide homeless youth with the skills and support to organize their peers and improve the living conditions of homeless families in Ohio. YEP’s campaigns have addressed budget cuts in homeless education funding, changed shelter policies, and won resources for new family facilities and ensuring youth benefit from the successful campaign to raise the minimum wage which COHHIO was key in organizing. Moving forward COHHIO and YEP will carry out its ongoing local campaigns for homeless youth access. YEP will also advocate for a new state law that will protect the education rights of homeless children and youth. COHHIO was awarded a $30,000 renewal grant to support YEP’s efforts to organize for the educational and housing access of homeless youth.
FUNDERS' COLLABORATIVE ON YOUTH ORGANIZING
Jewish Fund for Justice
212-725-3386
183 Madison Avenue, Suite 919
New York, New York 10016
Joan Minieri Interim Executive Director
212-725-3386
http://www.fcyo.org
Size: $25,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
Launched in February 2000, the Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a collective of national, regional, and local foundations, and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social justice. FCYO works to increase philanthropic resources for youth organizing groups and to promote the leadership of low-income youth of color in social justice organizing. FCYO’s most recent accomplishments include launching “ReGen EJ”--an initiative that has distributed a total of $300,000 in grants to 11 multi-generational environmental justice organizing groups. In 2007, FCYO released “The Roots Toolkit: On Sustainability” and the final installment of its Occasional Paper Series, “Urban Transformations: Youth Organizing in the Northeast”. Hazen’s $25,000 grant supports FCYO to strengthen its organizational capacity, continue strategic grantmaking initiatives and to educate funders about new trends and funding opportunities.
