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PRODUCTS &
SERVICES
PKGraphics
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A national player
and a recognized leader in custom flyer design and printing
services.
Badgerland Products,
Inc. - A full service designer and printer
of labels for business and industrial application.
TechSoup
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One
of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology
assistance agencies.
LEADERSHIP &
DEVELOPMENT
Project South
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Striving
to build a stronger movement for social & economic justice
by connecting local organizing efforts to
consciousness, vision, and strategy.
Highlander Research and
Education Center - Gathers workers,
grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and
researchers to address the most pressing social,
environmental and economic problems facing the people of the
South.
Urban Leadership
Institute
- Empowers youth
and adults to create and launch their own enterprises, and
to take greater responsibility for their lives and
communities. ULI leads a growing global liberation movement
of youth and adults.
SOUL -
Serving
as a training center to develop a new multi-racial
generation of young organizers - especially young women,
young people of color, queer youth and low-income youth -
who will have the skills and the vision they need to
struggle for the liberation of all oppressed people.
RESEARCH &
CAPACITY BUILDING
The Innovation Center
- Unleashes
the potential of youth, adults, organizations, and
communities to engage together in creating a just and
equitable society.
Resource Generation
- Works with young people with financial wealth who are
supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive
social change through the creative, responsible and
strategic use of financial and other resources.
Grassroots Institute
for Fundraising Training -
Helps develop and
strengthen the grassroots fundraising skills of people
working for social justice as our contribution to building
the movement.
Data
Center -
Exists to build the capacity of a broad-based social justice
movement that embodies, embraces, and honors diverse
cultures to create the new systems and institutions
essential to building a just and equitable world.
Applied Research Center
- A
public policy institute advancing racial justice through
research, advocacy and journalism.
MEDIA
Alliance for Community
Media -
The
Alliance for Community Media is committed to assuring
everyone's access to electronic media. The Alliance advances
this goal through public education, a progressive
legislative and regulatory agenda, coalition building and
grassroots organizing.
Community Technology
Centers' Network - A US-based network of
more than 1000 organizations united in their commitment to
improve the educational, economic, cultural and political
life of their communities through technology.
Ohio Community
Computing Network -
A sustainable
member-driven organization supporting community technology
to promote full participation in a digital world.
The Public Radio Exchange
- A web-based marketplace for public
radio pieces.
Alternet: Special
Coverage: Wiretap - Database of online blogs
and posts.
The Spin Project
- For
organizations working to build a fair, just and equitable
society that want to be heard in today’s crowded media
environment.
Youth Media Council
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A Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development,
media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to
developing youth-led strategies for media justice.
COALITIONS
New
Progressive Coalition
- Provides a marketplace for progressive politics, a
place where people and organizations can connect and
exchange information and resources.
Community Justice
Network for Youth - The primary function
is to be a support network for organizers and practitioners
who are on the ground working with youth who are at risk or
already involved in the juvenile or criminal justice
systems.
LOCAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Lighthouse Youth
Services -
A
comprehensive youth and family services organization that
provides a wide range of programs including emergency
shelter, residential treatment, foster care, juvenile
corrections, transitional living services for older homeless
youths, and in-home service for families in crisis.
Media
Bridges - Over-the-Rhine based organization
providing video production resources and excellent classes
and programming for the community.
Ohio Justice and Policy
Center
- Cincinnati based
organization with national ties working on several important
fronts of prison reform work.
Literacy
Center West -
Providing literacy instruction, GED preparation and
job-readiness assistance at no cost to the community.
YOUTH
CENTERS:
Hope Street
- A youth development program that is designed to
empower young people with leadership skills that will impact
their educational, career and life choices.
j.u.i.c.e.
– Hip Hop
based youth center in Los Angeles, California open once a
week out of a local church, currently looking to open a
branch in New York city as well.
The Neutral Zone
- An Ann Arbor youth-oriented, youth-advised place which
offers a fun, entertaining environment for teenagers to meet
with friends and meet new people, learn new things and
satisfy their need for a home away from home; a place to
call their own during high-risk hours.
The
Point
– Hip Hop based
youth center in the Bronx, New York.
Providence Youth-Street
Movement -
A grass-roots, multiracial youth activist organization.
Project Blowed - Creating a community of young
people who are dedicated to learning new technologies,
acquiring employable skills and participating in digital
arts and new media training.
The Spot
– Hip-hop based
youth center in Denver, CO that has been instrumental in our
growth.
S.T.A.R.S.
- primarily targets at-risk teenagers. Our teens gain
positive, self-esteem building experiences through their
daily involvement with S.T.A.R.S. The program offers
Columbus youth an opportunity to learn about all facets of
the music industry... from music composition to marketing
and distribution.
Street Level Youth
Media -
Educates Chicago's
inner city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for
use in self-expression, communication, and social change.
The Center for Teen Empowerment -
Empowering youth
and adults as agents of positive individual, institutional,
and social change.
Urban
Underground
– Dope youth based organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
currently working on opening a hip hop based youth center.
UTEC
-
safe-haven for youth development and grassroots organizing
located in western Massachusetts.
ZUMIX - East-Boston
organization based around art & music with the youth of the
community ages anywhere from 8-20.
INTERMEDIARY
ROLE PLAYERS:
Highlander Research & Education Center -
to provide education and support to poor and working people
fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and
environmental destruction in Tennessee
Movement Strategy Center -
committed
to advancing the next generation of leaders for a
sustainable progressive movement based in Oakland, CA.
National Training & Information Center -
mission is to build
grassroots leadership and strengthen neighborhoods through
issue-based community organizing.
Praxis Project - a national, nonprofit organization
that builds partnerships with local groups to influence
policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of
community problems. Committed to closing the health gap
facing communities of color, we forge alliances for building
healthy communities.
Project South - work with communities pushed forward by
the struggle to strengthen leadership and provide popular
political & economic education for personal & social
transformation.
School of Unity & Liberation -
is working to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation
movement by supporting the development of a new generation
of young organizers - especially young women, young people
of color, queer youth and working-class young people.
Southeast Regional Economic
Justice Network -
organized
to enable organizations of Southern workers, women, and
youth, and the general public better understand and
proactively respond to economic restructuring and worsening
conditions in our communities.
YouthAction -
provides resources for building a social change movement in
which young people play an important role in creating and
fighting for solutions to the problems affecting them and
their communities.
OTHER:
Asian Pacific American Legal Center -
Advocating for
civil rights, provide legal services and education and build
coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Pacific
Americans and to create a more equitable and harmonious
society.
Barrios Unidos -
Preventing and curtailing
violence amongst youth within Santa Cruz County by providing
them with life enhancing alternatives.
A Better Way Foundation Connecticut - Founded in
response to the need to institutionalize efforts to educate
Connecticut's leaders about alternatives to war on drug
policies.
BLOC Network -
To elevate the leadership of
young people in all social justice sectors.
Books 4 Prisoners Crew - Providing free
reading materials to the prisoners in the Cincinnati area.
Bus Rider's Union - A progressive civil rights and
environmental justice membership organization dealing with
the mass transit and public health needs of minorities in
the LA area.
Californians for Justice -
a statewide grassroots
organization working for racial justice by building the
power of communities that have been pushed to the margins of
the political process.
Campus Progress - Strengthening
progressive voices on college and university campuses
nationwide; counter the growing influence of right-wing
groups on campus; and empower new generations of progressive
leaders.
Circle of Discipline -
Provide youth and young adults with alternative programs and
enrichment activities that address physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual needs.
Community Coalition -
Transforming
the social & economic conditions that foster addiction,
crime, violence, & poverty by building a permanent community
institution involving thousands of people in creating,
influencing and changing public policy.
Davey
D's Hip Hop Corner
- Great site for
news and media in hip hop culture and beyond.
Destiny Arts Center - Arts center and violence
prevention center.
Detroit Summer
- A multicultural, intergenerational, youth movement to
rebuild, redefine and re-spirit Detroit from the ground up.
Ella Baker Center
– San Francisco, California based organization working on
several important social justice issues.
Freechild Project - Connects young people to create
social change, particularly those who have historically been
denied the right to participation. Offering resources,
programs, training, and more.
Hip Hop Association -
In response to this
misrepresentation of Hip-Hop culture, was formed with the
goal of facilitating, fostering and preserving Hip-Hop’s
original vision.
Homies Unidos - A
gang violence prevention and
intervention organization with projects in San Salvador, El
Salvador and Los Angeles, California.
Inner-City Muslim Action Network -
IMAN hopes to effect holistic change in the conditions and
root causes of suffering in the inner city Chicago.
Inner-City Struggle -
A core value of ICS is to
promote the active involvement and unity of Boyle Heights
and East Los Angeles residents that have been historically
marginalized and silenced.
League of Independent Voters
– Youth based
national organization working on electoral politics
campaigns and connecting people in major ways.
Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement
– New York, New
York based organization working on several important social
justice issues.
Movement Strategy
Center -
Helping activists
to develop the skills, culture, analysis & vision to work
together in broad, cohesive alliances—with a strong emphasis
on the leadership of base-building groups working to address
the needs of young people, low income communities and
communities of color.
National Hip Hop Political Convention
– National network of hip hop heads working for political
power.
National Organizers Alliance - NOA's mission is to
advance progressive organizing for social, economic and
environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture
the people of all ages who do it.
Native Graffix - Youth training and entrepreneur program
based on graphic design and printing.
Ohio Justice & Policy Center
- Non-partisan, non-profit, public interest law office based
in Cincinnati, Ohio dedicated specifically to reform the
state's criminal justice
system.
Philadelphia Student Union - the Student Union has
remained a youth run organization committed to fighting for
a high quality education for all young people.
Prison Moratorium
Project
– Youth based
organization in New York, New York doing amazing organizing
to stop the rise of youth prisons.
Public Allies -
Advances
diverse young leaders to strengthen communities, nonprofits
and civic participation.
Project Hip Hop -
A youth-led organization,
through the study of hip hop culture and the history of
social movements we engage young people in a process of
critically analyzing the past and present so they can take
action to make a better future.
PrYSM -
a grass-roots, multiracial youth activist organization.
Purpose is to build campaigns, networks, and movements that
strengthen the values of justice, community, and love.
The Ordinary People Society - Provide rehabilitation
to the repeat offenders while creating a program that target
the youths before they reach the Criminal Justice System
ROCA - Roca is a multicultural human development and
community building organization based in Chelsea and serving
the communities of Chelsea, Revere, East Boston and Lynn,
Massachusetts.
Southern Californians for Youth - Southern
Californians for Youth's vision to create a strong
multiracial/ multiethnic youth movement led by youth of
color committed to social justice.
Urban Life Center -
Located in
Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, Urban Life Center
integrates academia, internships, streets smarts, the arts
and more in experiential programs, seminars and tours.
Vizionary Productions
- An educational program that uses the medium of Hip-Hop
music and culture to help students realize the importance of
education and to develop skills associated with “cultural
capital”.
Vision Youthz -
provides avenues for
skills-building, relationship-building, and inner awareness
for vulnerable, inner-city youth.
Voces De La Frontera -
Educating
low-income and immigrant workers in the Milwaukee community.
What Kids Can Do - A national not-for-profit
organization founded in 2001 for the purpose of making
public the voices and views of adolescents.
WK Kellogg Foundation
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helping people
help themselves through the practical application of
knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and
that of future generations.
Yo! The Movement
- A
non-profit organization that hosts and promotes safe events
and happenings for youth in the Twin Cities.
Youth Activism Project - A non-partisan organization to
encourage young people to speak up and pursue lasting
solutions to problems they care deeply about.
Youth Movement Records:
The Movement - Youth-based organization in
the Bay Area that uses music, mentoring, entrepreneurship
and good-times to build self-esteem and community change.
Young People For Civil Liberties -
Committed to
protecting and promoting our nation’s core values by
identifying, engaging and empowering young leaders and
activists and equipping them to work toward positive social
change in their communities and across the nation.
Youth Rights Media -
engages youth in video media
production and community organizing so that young people are
equipped with tools, skills, and strategies for affecting
change within themselves, their communities, and
Connecticut’s deeply troubled juvenile justice system.
Youth United for Change -
an organization dedicated to
developing young leaders in Philadelphia and empowering them
to improve the quality of education and services in their
communities to better meet their needs.
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