PRODUCTS & SERVICES  
PKGraphics - 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 - One of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies.

 

LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT  
Project South - 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 - 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 - 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.

 

 



 

      OUR GENEROUS FUNDERS

        

         

        

 

Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, N.A. and James S. Wachs, Co-Trustees, Christ Church Cathedral and a whole lot of amazing individuals! THANK YOU!