DCPS

The DCPS mission is to ensure every student feels loved, challenged, and prepared to positively influence society and thrive in life. The school district's vision focused on guaranteeing students reach their full potential through rigorous and joyful learning experiences provided in a nurturing environment.

Bridges Inc.

Our vision is to transform vulnerable communities into empowered, self-sufficient communities where each resident has an opportunity to thrive and succeed. Our primary objective is to assist vulnerable communities in navigate complex systems that are often bureaucratic, unsupportive, or unresponsive to their needs. We view ourselves as catalyst to change, seeking to transform and improve these very systems that serve our most vulnerable residents through a capacity building lens.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, FBR

The FBR Clubhouse provides quality youth development programming to children living in Ward 8.  Our members have access to the Clubhouse afterschool, weekends, and during the summer at our Camps.  In addition, the FBR Clubhouse provides support children through community outreach efforts.

DCPL

The Marshall Heights Civic Association (MHCA) is the direct conduit to local District of Columbia elected and appointed officials, law enforcement, and emergency first responders to discuss and resolve issues directly related to our quality of life within the Marshall Heights community. MHCA is an organization where passion, commitment and community pride come together. 

DC Alliance of Youth Advocates

The DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA) is a coalition of youth-engaged organizations, youth and concerned residents formed to ensure that all children and youth in the District of Columbia have access to high-quality and affordable developmental opportunities. DCAYA's accomplish this mission by crafting policy recommendations, providing structured advocacy opportunities for our members and allies, networking and empowering youth.

Social Justice School

We seek to build an intentional community and foster the passions of our students. Our model blends rigorous academics with community-centered project based learning and liberatory design thinking. 

The Social Justice School is led by a team of educators with over 50+ years of combined experience in education and social justice work. 

Community Mediation DC

Community Mediation DC (CMDC) envisions a city where mediation is used to build strong and peaceful communities, and every DC resident has access to high-quality, collaborative conflict resolution services. CMDC provides mediation services at no cost and works to ensure every DC resident has access to high-quality, collaborative conflict resolution services.

L. M. Foundation

L.M. (Life Ministry) Foundation believes we can help build a new foundation in a person's life while we minister to their needs by offering a place to stay while they heal, we will also offer  food, and clothing. Built on biblical principals; "I will say to the Lord, My Lord is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalms 91:2 (NIV)

Fly By Nature Foundation

FBN’s mission is to empower DC area youth by strengthening their knowledge, skills, and attitudes to heal from childhood trauma. Using the CASEL 5 Core Competencies, we designed our curriculum around healing centered engagement and positive youth development. Our trauma-informed approach helps caregivers, families, schools and students align with a common understanding around healing.

Girl Scouts Nation's Capital

Girls Scouts is 2.6 million strong—1.8 million girls and 800,000 adults who believe in the power of every G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ to change the world.Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

KeepDC4Me

KeepDC4Me is a branch of Black Lives Matter DC, and is a leaderFULL coalition committed to finding non-police solutions to intra-community violence and ending police brutality, terror and murder. We do this in ways that disrupt, confront, and dismantle institutions and systems of state sanctioned violence and oppression that displace and criminalize Black people through political education, building community power, and direct action.

Youth Action March

The Youth Action March is intended to turn political hopelessness into political empowerment. No matter your age, you have a tremendous ability to move your city, your state, and your country in a more inclusive and forward-looking direction - whether by engaging our government or by working with non-governmental organizations. A sixteen-year-old is just as capable of volunteering at a phone bank for hurricane disaster relief as a sixty-year-old. A twenty-year-old’s vote is worth the same as their parent’s. Anyone at any age can stand up to a bully, be it in the middle school parking lot or on the senate floor.

Vote16USA

Vote16DC is coalition of youth, adult allies, and organizations that believe DC should lower the voting age to 16.  Extending voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds in DC can go a long way to ensuring that the District's young people become engaged, lifelong voters. Our democracy works best when more people participate, and lowering the voting age is an important step to make sure young people build a habit of engagement that can last a lifetime.

Listen First Coalition

There is growing, even violent, division in communities across America. This polarizing trend is affecting society at large as well as workplaces, schools, and personal relationships. Listen First creates opportunities and teaches skills for conversations that tip the scales toward a stronger and more equitable future for our nation and better relationships in our daily lives.

Girl Represent

Girl Represent teaches workshops around the country how to get involved in civic leadership, identify what they are passionate about, and connect with role models in their communities.

Through games, interactive exercises, and Q&A with role models youth spend time with mentors and discover ways to make a difference. Young ladies walk away with new friends, new ideas, and new role models.

National Voter Registration Day 

National Voter Registration Day is a national holiday celebrating our democracy. It was first observed in 2012 and has been growing in popularity every year since. Held on the fourth Tuesday of September, National Voter Registration Day will be observed on Tuesday, September 25th this year. The holiday has been endorsed by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). It is further supported by the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).

WeavingCommunity

During this spasmodic chapter in America’s history, millions of Americans face grave physical, mental, social, and economic challenges. WeavingCommunity responds to this moment of crisis by inviting honest conversation, authentic human connection and meaningful civic action. It strives to turn this moment of shared pain into a moment of shared possibility.

Youth for Peace and Development

Youth for Peace and Development is a Zimbabwean based youth-led organization which promotes active youth participation in peace building, development and decision making through advocating for youth friendly policies and programs. The overall objective of the organization is to empower young people and protect them from being engaged in conflict and violence. Through its programs, the organization encourages youth to serve their communities so that they actively take part in sustainable development

United Network of Youth for Peace and Diplomacy

UNYPD is a young women-led non-profit organization that works to create a violence free society in Nigeria by promoting peace, equality and dignity for underprivileged youth. We believe that it is the human rights of young people to be free from violent conflicts, live in good health and well-being and to participate meaningfully in shaping lasting peace and development.

United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth

The UNMGCY is the UN General Assembly-mandated, official, formal and self-organised mechanism for young people to meaningfully engage in the UN. We act as a bridge between young people and the UN system in order to ensure that their right to meaningful participation is realized. We do so by engaging formal and informal communities of young people, in the design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up, and review of sustainable development policies at all levels. 

Justice Is Us Project

Justice Is Us Project’s mission is to teach Afrocentric civic education to Black youth in the United States and the Caribbean to encourage partnership in policy advocacy and community engagement on shared injustice across the African diaspora. 

Students Helping Honduras

Honduras has a 66% poverty rate and is currently the most unequal country in Latin America. Crime and violence remain rampant, as Honduras continues to have one of the highest homicide rates in the world. 37% of Honduran children of secondary school age (12-16) are out of school. Of the poorest quintile, 62% are out of school. The mission of Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is to alleviate extreme poverty and violence in Honduras through education and youth empowerment.

UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development

UN IANYD is the United Nations inter-agency mechanism for matters related to youth. It works to advance and increase the effectiveness of the UN’s work in youth development and policy by strengthening collaboration, creating coherence and enabling exchange among all relevant UN entities. Its membership consists of over fifty United Nations entities whose work is relevant to youth. UN IANYD Youth Caucus provides a space for dialogue to support meaningful youth engagement in the work of UN IANYD and serves as its third co-chair.

iRead To Live

The iRead To Live Initiative is an NGO committed to achieving and advocating for Sustainable Development Goals of Quality Education in Nigeria and promoting reading cultures in Students and youths. In accordance with the Vision 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. this initiative focuses on advocating for Quality Education and improved learning conditions in both government and private owned Schools in Nigeria.

Youth Activism Project

Youth Activism Project (YAP) help teen activists build the skills, networks, and resources to lead movements in their communities.