Resources

Youth Activism

Youth Activism Project - http://www.youthactivism.com/
Youth Activism Project is a national clearinghouse providing help and information to parents, mentors, teachers, principals, policy-makers and other adult allies who want to collaborate with youth to achieve positive community change.

Do Something - http://www.dosomething.org
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them.

YouthNOISE - http://www.youthnoise.com
Youth Noise is a group of young people--from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 118 countries--together with a group of adults working to provide information from more than 300 nonprofit partners to date that will spark youth action and voice. Current events from teens perspective, stories of youth who make a difference, ways you can help various issues locally and globally.

Youth In Action Network - http://www.teaching.com/act
Learn about important issues, Talk to young people from over 80 different countries, and Take Action with surveys, petitions and lobbying tools!

Power to the Youth - http://www.youthpower.net
Power to the Youth is an organization of youth around the nation who are taking charge of their schools, lives, and world.

The Free Child Project - http://freechild.org
This is a great website with an A-Z list of links for all issues for relating to teens.

Monitoring the Future - http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
Monitoring the Future reports on a continuing study of American youth.

Funding Resources

Waging Peace - http://www.wagingpeace.org

Swackhamer Peace Essay Contest
The contest is open to all high school students throughout the world. The topic: How would a Peace Education course in your school benefit students, the school, the community and the world? What lessons and issues do you think should be included in such a course?

2003 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards
The contest – with youth under 12, youth 13-18, and adult categories – is designed to “encourage poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit.” Participants submit 3 type-written poems for consideration.

Gleitsman Foundation - http://www.gleitsman.org/citizen/nomination.html
Citizen Activist Award
The Citizen Activist Award salutes individuals in the US who most exemplify individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of those who have initiated social change.

Do Something - http://www.dosomething.org
A national nonprofit organization that trains, funds and mobilizes young people to be leaders who measurably strengthen their communities. Do Something Grants are awarded three times each year to support young people under the age of 30.

Co/Motion Challenge Grants - http://www.comotionmakers.org/newsletter/2-1/challenge.html
The matching challenge grants will help youth turn their vision into action by providing the cash they need to support their activities and make a commotion to stop gun violence.

Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund - http://www.openmeadows.org/special.htm
Provides grants of up to $2000 to women 19 and under who propose to develop and lead projects focused on activism and social change.

YouthActionNet Awards - http://www.youthactionnet.org/minigrants.php
Offers $500 Awards for young people who are working on projects that support social change and are helping to connect youth with their local communities.

Youth As Resources - http://www.yar.org
Encourages youth-led and youth-designed community projects. They help young people from ages 5 to 21 to find funding sources and adult assistance within their communities to get their projects going.

Anti-Curfew

Curfew Protest - http://apll.freeyellow.com/curfew1.html
This page has links that comprise the most extensive listing of articles relating to curfew laws and their destruction of responsibility and parental control.

Curfew.org: Fighting Youth Curfews - http://www.curfew.org
Provides ammunition for teenagers and adults that are looking to battle curfews in their hometown. This website is intended to help fight laws passed in localities, not the rules of malls, stores, or other private venues.

Anti-Censorship

Peacefire - http://www.peacefire.org
Advocates open Internet access for all young people. Includes software that negates popular at-home blocking software.

Rock Out Censorship - http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/CommunitySupport/YSJ/ysj.html
Opposes music censorship and the right of young people to decide what they want to listen to.

Anti-Youth Criminalization

No War On Youth - http://www.colorlines.com/waronyouth/
Media and organizing information relevant to building opposition to the criminalization of youth, focusing particularly on California's Gang Violence And Juvenile Crime Prevention Act.

Youth for Social Justice - http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/CommunitySupport/YSJ/ysj.html
YSJ is a network of youth, run by youth, who encourage each other to take leadership roles in their communities and schools, to increase understanding of social justice issues relevant to them such as sexism, ageism, racism, homophobia, multiculturalism, and environmental and community development issues.

Anti-Ageism and Anti-Discrimination

Addressing Adultism - http://freechild.org/SNAYR/adultism.htm
This informative page includes links to a dozen sites that explore Adultism. You'll find definitions, deep explorations, and other information to inform and combat this enemy of youth everywhere.

Peace and Non-Violence

Student Peace Action Network - http://www.studentpeaceaction.org
Through coordinated direct actions, demonstrations, teach-ins, letter-writing campaigns, dissemination of materials, and other tactics, SPAN activists all over the country challenge policies like these and work for non-violent, constructive alternatives.

Waging Peace - http://www.wagingpeace.org
The Youth Outreach Initiative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports opportunities for youth to contribute toward a world at peace, free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

Crossing Borders - http://www.crossingborder.org
Crossing Borders is a newspaper written by young Israelis, Arab-Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians. It is published in English every two months While it does focus on the conflict, its main aim is to produce a newspaper covering everything teenagers are interested in: poetry, sports, politics, society, culture, and opinion.