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Program: Youth Development Grants Year: 2007
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Program: Youth Development Grants
For Year: 2007
Hope Street Youth Development
316-263-7325
1157 N Piatt
Wichita, Kansas 67214
Jake Lowen
316-263-7325
http://www.hopestreet.com
Size: $60,000/2 yrs
2007
Youth Development Grants
Since 1990, Hope Street Youth Development has fostered a community of middle and high school youth leaders who take an active role in the improvement of their own lives. In 2003, Hope Streetbegan a multi-site school based organizing program called Students United which has focused primarily on issues of youth criminalization. Students United has worked on several campaigns and won significant victories including, modifying the School District’s zero-tolerance policy and creating changes to district suspension and expulsion policies that reduced the overall expulsion rate by over 48%. Currently, Students United is working on site campaigns at its three school chapters and a district wide campaign focused on removing tasers from Wichita schools and instituting a number of reforms to ensure student safety. Hope Streetwas awarded a grant of $60,000 ($30,000 a year for two years) to support its citywide, multi-school organizing project to create change in both individual schools and at the district level.
Hyde Square Task Force
617-524-8303
375 Centre Street, PO Box 301871
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
Claudio Martinez Executive Director
617-524-8303
http://www.hydesquare.org
Size: $35,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
Founded in the 1980’s by a diverse group of neighbors, the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) began as an effort to reverse the trend of youth violence in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde/Jackson Square. In 1999, the Youth Community Organizers (YCO) initiative was formed to train youth in community organizing skills and to organize campaigns to improve Boston community and educational systems. Youth leadership within HSTF’s “Youth First in Jackson Square” campaign mobilized hundreds of teens and community supporters to demand the creation of a 30,000 square foot Youth and Family Center in Jackson Square which is projected to be completed in 2010. YCO’s current campaigns, the “Campaign for Civics” and the “Campaign for Wellness”, are working to institute political education and sexual health curriculums in the Boston Public High Schools. In the spring of 2007, YCO drafted and presented the first youth-written hearing order in the city’s history before the Boston City Council. With $35,000 from Hazen, YCO continues its campaign work for policy change within the Boston Public School System.
Oakland Kids First!
510-452-2043
1924 Franlin Suite 310
Oakland, California 94612
Julie Iny
510-452-2043
http://www.kidsfirstoakland.org
Size: $30,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
Oakland Kids First! is a multiracial organization which creates opportunities for Oakland youth to positively transform their schools and communities through advocacy, organizing, creative arts and leadership training. REAL HARD, the youth organizing program of Kids First is organizing a base of Oakland high school students to address Oakland’s low graduation and college attendance rates through three youth-initiated solutions 1) Creating and working with the district to implement a peer academic counseling program 2) Simplifying transcript design so students and parents can more easily track progress towards high school graduation and college entrance requirements and 3) Starting graduation education workshops to help students plan for high school graduation/college. Kids First was awarded a $30,000 grant to support its Peer Counselor and Culture Change campaign focused on building a critical mass of students organized to change power dynamics at their schools.
