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Program: Youth Development Grants Year: 2009
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CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES
718-220-7391 x22
2473 Valentine Avenue
Bronx, New York 10458
Haeyoung Yoon, Executive Director
718-220-7391 x22
http://www.caaav.org/
Size: $60,000/2 yrs
2009
Youth Development Grants
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV) organizes low income Asian immigrant communities in Chinatown and the Bronx in New York City. 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 by addressing issues such as economic development, employment, public education, criminal justice, immigration/anti-deportation and health justice. CAAAV was awarded a $60,000 renewal grant from Hazen to support CJP’s campaigns protecting low-income Chinatown residents from displacement and gentrification with the O.U.R. (Organizing and Uniting Residents) Waterfront Campaign and Alternatives to Mass Evictions Campaign. YLP will continue training Cambodian and Vietnamese youth as organizers to win new and improved health protections for the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx.
CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE
562-951-1015
1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 317
Oakland, California 94612
Jeremy Lahoud, Executive Director
562-951-1015
www.caljustice.org
Size: $30,000
2009
Youth Development Grants
Californians for Justice (CFJ) is a statewide, grassroots organization that has built a base of conscious, active youth leaders in four regions of California: Oakland, San Jose, Long Beach and Fresno. CFJ’s vision is to reframe and influence the public debate on education issues, improve the quality of education and increase opportunities to learn in school districts in which CFJ organizes and to increase education funding statewide. CFJ waged four local campaigns in 2008 and 2009, all focused on winning improved college access policies in local school districts. CFJ was awarded a $30,000 grant to support their new statewide campaign, “100 % Prepared for College and Career” and to continue developing an active core of youth leaders from low-income communities of color who lead campaigns for racial equity in California’s public schools.
COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
415-239-0161
459 Vienna St.
San Francisco, California 94112
N'Tanya Lee, Executive Director
415-239-0161
http://www.colemanadvocates.org
Size: $30,000
2009
Youth Development Grants
Founded in 1975, Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth is one of the oldest child advocacy organizations in the country. Youth Making a Change (Y-MAC) is a citywide, multi-ethnic youth organizing group of a broader, multi-issue base at Coleman Advocates. Today, YMAC has a membership of 250 students in four high schools. YMAC students, working alongside Coleman parent members, researched and developed a “Right To Graduate, Right to College: A-G Equity Plan”, and pushed its passage all the way to victory on May 26th, 2009 with a historic, unanimous school board vote. Starting with the class of 2014, all San Francisco students will have access to college and career-track courses, and will be required to take them in order to graduate. Hazen awarded Coleman Advocates $30,000 to provide ongoing support to strengthen Y-MAC and its work to win youth-led organizing campaigns for educational equity.
