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INTRODUCTION:
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
(FCYO) is a collective of national, regional and local grantmakers
and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth
organizing as a strategy for youth development and social justice.
The mission of the FCYO is to substantially increase the
philanthropic investment in and strengthen the organizational
capacities of youth organizing groups across the country.
The following are several of their publications.
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At
a Crossroads: Youth Organizing in the Midwest
By Melissa Spatz. Spatz challenges the notion of a homogenous
Midwest, to map the contours of a growing and increasingly
varied youth organizing field in and beyond Chicago.
Traditions
and Innovations: Youth Organizing in the Southwest
By Daniel HoSang. HoSang transports readers to a Southwestern
landscape—beautiful and culturally rich on one hand, and
historically oppressive and contentious on the other—to reveal
youth organizing that draws heavily on tradition, yet is boldly
innovative in its approaches.
Changing
the Rules of the Game: Youth Development and Structural Racism
By Julie Quiroz Martinez, Daniel HoSang and Lori Villarosa.
Presents findings from the Youth and Racial Equity Project,
which conducted an 18-month study on the ways community groups
engage youth in confronting structural racism. Features 16
organizations integrating youth development and racial equity
goals.
The
West Coast Story: The Emergence of Youth Organizing in
California
By Ryan Pintado-Vertner. Explores the regional and statewide
context of California that has spurred, facilitated and
challenged contemporary youth organizing efforts, and how that
context has shaped the current priorities and approaches of
organizations.
A
New Generation of Southerners: Youth Organizing in the South
By Charles Price and Kim Diehl. Describes the sociopolitical and
historical backdrop of efforts by youth and their communities to
build hope and local power for social change and justice, and
how local and regional dynamics have shaped those organizing
efforts.
Structural
Racism and Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Implications.
The Roundtable on Community Change at the Aspen Institute,
February 2004. Discusses the need for a structural racism
analytical framework in the field of youth work. Includes comments
on youth organizing's particular success in pushing racial equity
outcomes as an explicit part of the mission and values of youth
work.
Prepared by the training and support
organization LISTEN, Inc., this paper explores the influences of
community organizing and youth development on youth organizing;
describes a continuum that identifies different levels and models
of youth engagement; and outlines the fundamentals of youth
organizing: its processes, guiding principles, practices and
impacts.
By Daniel HoSang. This paper traces
the history of youth involvement in 20th- and 21st-century social
change efforts and examines some of the major organizations,
themes and trends in this burgeoning, but nascent field. The paper
explores characteristics common to youth organizing and three
primary issue areas around which youth organizing efforts are
focused: public school reform, criminal justice, and environmental
justice.
Youth
Organizing: Expanding Possibilities for Youth Development
By Shawn Ginwright. The author
discusses the nexus of youth development and youth organizing, and
the promise of youth organizing in yielding both individual
transformations and social change. The paper examines how
processes unique to youth organizing have pushed and broadened
youth development practices to include a deeper analysis of issues
such as inequality and discrimination and their impact on the
development of young people and their communities.
By Social Policy Research
Associates. Drawing upon the fields of youth development,
community organizing and civic engagement compiled to centralize
information about the existing resources from and for the field of
youth organizing. This appendix presents a digest of research and
reports, reflections from the field, and youth organizing
curricula and toolkits.
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