3rd Eye Youth Empowerment
New Bedford, MA
2011
3rd Eye Youth Empowerment develops youth leadership through mentoring, skill building, and social justice organizing campaigns.
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Beantown Society
Boston, MA
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
The vision of Beantown Society is to unite youth in Boston across race, class, culture, and neighborhood to end youth violence. We believe in changing youth's oppression, neglect-ion,...
Boston Mobilization
Boston, MA
2018
Boston Mobilization was founded in 1977 as part of a national movement for workers rights and smart green energy. Since then we have taken leadership and support roles...
Boston-area Youth Organizing Project
Boston, MA
2016
We are an organization of youth, led by youth and supported by adults, who are united by a common purpose: to increase youth power and create positive social...
Connecticut Students for a DREAM
Bridgeport, CT
2015, 2014
Connecticut Students for a DREAM is a statewide organization of DREAMers and alies that seek to empower undocumented students and their families by advocating for their rights and...
Hearing Youth Voices
New London, CT
2018, 2015
We are a youth-led social justice organization in working to create systemic change in the education system in New London, Connecticut. We do this by supporting the development...
Journey to Free
Hartford, CT
2017
Journey to Free's mission is "To empower Afro-Caribbean women to challenge and change the misogynous social, legal and economic systems that support and fuel the sexual abuse of...
Life In My Days, Inc
Waterbury, CT
2019
Life In My Days, Inc is a peer and youth led international non-profit built on a foundation of peer support, disability justice, racial justice, divestment from capitalism and...
Out Now
Springfield, MA
2011
Out Now originated in 1995 as a weekly support group for LGTB youth from the greater Springfield area. There was one advisor and no more than five young...
Prison Birth Project
Northampton, MA
2015, 2014, 2013
When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options,...
Providence Student Union
Providence, RI
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
The Providence Student Union (PSU) is a youth-led student organizing program whose mission is to build the collective power of students across Providence to ensure youth have a...
Providence Youth-Student Movement
Providence, RI
2014
PrYSM was founded on November 8th, 2001, when a series of repeated Cambodian gang fights and resulting deaths inspired youth and local college students to fight for positive...
Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM)
Amherst, MA
2014, 2013, 2011
The 500,000 people who make up the Massachusetts public higher education community are the sleeping giant of Massachusetts politics. By mobilizing a large and engaged grassroots network, PHENOM...
Reflect and Strengthen
Boston, MA
2012
Reflect and Strengthen's (R&S) mission is for young, working-class women, ages 14-30 from Boston's urban neighborhoods to create and nurture environments for positive social change through creative expression,...
Resilient Sisterhood Project
Boston, MA
2015, 2014
The Resilient Sisterhood Project’s mission is to educate and empower women of African descent regarding common but rarely discussed diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect them...