Amount: $15,000
2015
National
The Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a collaborative of funders and youth organizing practitioners that provides capacity building, grantmaking support and advocacy, and networking opportunities to youth organizing groups addressing these issues. Hazen’s renewal grant will enable FCYO to support its newly developed Youth Community Organizing Resource Exchange (Youth CORE), a set of activities aimed at bringing together a large number of youth organizers from across the country to share learnings, build relationships, and develop common strategy. Among the activities the grant will support are an annual field-wide convening (200 organizations participated in the November convening); webinars and peer learning circles for youth organizers; “tables” that engage young people working with specific constituencies or issues (e.g., the Youth Table on Boys and Men of Color). FCYO also will continue to serve as an advocate among funders for expanding the resources available for youth organizing.