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Community-Building
Resources
Organizations
and information to help develop community-building programs for teens;
and others that recognize teens for their community service.
Community Partnerships
with Youth, Inc.
A nonprofit that puts youth on an equal footing with adults
in advisory roles, working with such neighborhood organizations as churches,
schools, and parks departments. CPY's training programs include Youth
As Trustees, which helps young people look at how they can get involved
in communities; Youth in Governance, which teaches kids how to be an effective
board member (including sections on fundraising and group process); and
Are You Ready, which prepares community organizations for participation
from young people on their board.
America's
Promise/The Alliance for Youth
This organization founded by General Colin L. Powell
promotes the need for "safe places" where young people can find
interesting activities and caring adults outside of school.
Brower
Youth Awards - Earth Island Institute
The Brower Youth Awards recognize
the outstanding and innovative leadership efforts of youth across
the country who are working on environmental conservation, preservation
and restoration.
Echoing
Green Foundation, New
York, NY
Echoing Green is a non-profit Foundation
that offers full-time Fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs.
Our Foundation applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy
by providing seed money and technical support to individuals creating
innovative public service projects that seek to catalyze positive
social change.
Growing
up in Cities
What does the process of urbanization mean
in the lives of young people? From young people’s own perspectives,
what makes an urban neighborhood a good place in which to grow up?
Can cities be positive places for young people-places that support
and nurture their development as constructive, contributing members
of a civil society? This website explores these questions.
Points
of Light Foundation, Washington,
DC
The Foundation's mission is to engage more
people more effectively in volunteer community service to help solve
serious social problems.
Search-institute.org
This nonprofit works with almost 600 communities
that are trying to make themselves healthier for the youth in their
midst.
YouthCoalition.net
Another Australian site devoted to "promoting the well-being
and aspirations of young people." Includes information on an
April, 2002 forum "aimed at improving relations between young
people, crime and young people's use of public space."
Youth
Service America, Washington,
DC
YSA is a resource center and premier alliance
of 200+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality
of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally,
or globally. YSA's mission is to strengthen the effectiveness, sustainability,
and scale of the youth service movement. YSA envisions a powerful
network of organizations committed to making service the common
experience and expectation of all young Americans. A strong youth
service movement will create healthy communities, and foster citizenship,
knowledge, and the personal development of young people.
The
Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community - Hitachi
Foundation
Each year ten high school seniors
from around the United States receive the Yoshiyama Award on the
basis of their community service activities; the Award is accompanied
by a gift of $5,000 that recipients may use at their discretion.
Yspace:
International Youth & Public Space Network
A great site from Australia with loads of
information on enhancing young people's access to - and investment
in - public space through design, programming, security and more.
Created for researchers, young people, government staff, planners,
and youth services staff to share information, insights, good practice,
resources and concerns.
PPS Resources:
100
ways you can make a difference
Simple things that you can do to make
your community more livable.
Youth
Resources on Urban Parks Online
Urban Parks Online is PPS' comprehensive
resource center on transforming parks into true community places.
Its "Youth" topic links into information and success stories
ranging from how cities can manage skating to accommodating young
people in public space to partnerships with high schools.
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