"NYC Youth Leadership Councils (YLCs) are a network of youth groups focused on policy, practice, and advocacy to make local change happen.

Each YLC is a space to team up with others, share ideas, create solutions, and put those solutions into action with the support from City agencies, schools, and community organizations.

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Your voice can make a difference in your community.

YLC members create solutions for:

• Advocating for mental health support and resources

• Preventing gun violence in communities

• Influencing citywide environmental sustainability awareness initiatives

• Encouraging nutritious diets and healthy lifestyles

• Connecting youth to digital resources for research and advocacy

• Using art as a tool for social action

• And more!

For a full list of active YLCs and the issues they’re working on, visit the YLC Application."

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"Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides award-winning experiential social justice education to over 500 young women and gender-expansive youth in New York City and Newark each year. Operating at the intersections of love and rigor, Sadie Nash Leadership Project utilizes the methodology of popular education to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness for our students.  We lay a foundation so that our participants (whom we refer to as Nashers) can lead lives in committed pursuit of joy and liberation for themselves and their communities.  Over nineteen years, we have built a community of Nashers and Sadie Nash alums who have grown into young adults in the context of our supportive programs.

Our work responds both to the gender gap that persists within economic, political, and social spheres, and to the rising extracurricular gap between low and middle-income youth. Almost all our students (or “Nashers”) are women of color, and many come from working-class or low-income families. "

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The NYCLU is a movement of people fighting together for justice, freedom, and equality, and our activists help turn our fundamental values into reality.

Real change starts with you - and every one of us can help make a difference. 

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Mission

"SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.

Vision

We envision American and world histories that fully acknowledge the importance of immigrants and ethnic communities in the past, strengthen such communities in the present, and inspire discussion about their role in the future."

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