$25,000 / 2015
2135 Clarke Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tameeka Bennett, Executive Director
Website: www.youthunited.net
This one-year $25,000 renewal grant will assist Youth United in Community Action (YUCA) in providing a safe space to develop and support a core of young people to organize on affordable housing, education reform and immigrant rights issues for Brown, Black and Pacific Islander communities in East Palo Alto, CA. Over the next year, YUCA will develop and support a core of young people in East Palo Alto (EPA) to organize on social and environmental justice issues centering on affordable housing policy and education and to engage parents around student support and curriculum reform. YUCA sits on the community advisory committee for the EPA General Plan process in East Palo Alto. YUCA members have also knocked on all 1800 west side East Palo Alto apartment units in an effort to inform and educate tenants of the General Plan process that is currently happening in the city. YUCA continues to lead and participate in the Empower, Transform and Build EPA Coalition (ETB-EPA) and has expanded this coalition to include new organizations and individuals committed to preserving affordable housing in East Palo Alto. YUCA is also reaching out to community organizations in EPA and the Bay Area who have a specific focus on Education to work together through the “EPA Education Network.”