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Through the intersection of arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and high quality artistic presentation, Youth Speaks creates safe spaces that challenge young people to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of societal change.Youth Speaks exists to shift the perceptions of youth by combating illiteracy, isolation, alienation, and silence, creating a global movement of brave new voices bringing the noise from the margins to the core.
In 2008 the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI) established its youth services program: Reviving Our Youths’ Aspirations (ROYA), named in memory of Roya Forouzesh, who was a close supporter of the clinic and a counselor who passionately worked with at-risk youth and their families. The purpose of the ROYA program is to promote resiliency, help youth develop their full potentials, and train the future leaders. The ROYA program helps these youth build their self-esteem and confidence, develop more effective communication and coping skills, and repair family relationships. Participating youth also learn to set goals and get the individualized support they need to stay in school, finish high school or get a GED, enroll in college, and, ultimately, become productive citizens and community leaders. ROYA provides at-risk children and youth with individual and group counseling, case management, mentoring, tutoring, job readiness, housing, and other support services, in conjunction with family counseling and parent education.
We are YR, a national network of young journalists and artists. We collaborate with our peers around the country and top media professionals to create content that matters. For 25 years, our non-profit production company has invested in future generations— championing our voices, and those before us— to build critical skills in journalism, arts and media. If you are a student, a young artist or writer, an activist, a parent, a teacher, or someone who believes in the power of this generation, you are in the right place. Hang out and explore our reporting and creative content on politics, identity, and rising artists.
The Center works to strengthen our community by fostering greater opportunities for people to thrive, offering aid in organizing for our future, celebrating our history and culture, and ultimately building resources to create a legacy for future generations. The Center is sought out as a collaborative leader and partner, leveraging the work of community-based organizations through active engagement with over 70 local organizations. Today, when visitors arrive at the Center, they will find free services such as career counseling, job fairs, a computer lab, social activities, mentorships, youth meals, and various workshops. Here LGBTQ people can connect and organize to secure our equal rights.
We stand in solidarity to protect women’s rights, human rights, our safety, our health, and our planet, as we move toward a positive and just future. We are actively nonviolent in words and action. We work to unify our nation’s diverse communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots. We recognize that there is no true peace, freedom, or inclusion without equity for all.
Bring Change to Mind’s High School Program gives teens a platform to share their voices and raise awareness around mental health. Our goal is to empower students to educate one another, and their communities, and to create a culture of peer support within their schools.
BAVC is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, serving over 7,500 freelancers, filmmakers, job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. BAVC provides access to media making technology, storytelling workshops, a diverse and engaged community of makers and producers, services and resources. BAVC advocates for those whose stories aren't being told, and provides the resources for anyone to create and share, and amplify their stories and those of their communities. BAVC's diverse, innovative programs lead the field in media training for youth and educators, technology and multimedia focused workforce development, visually-driven new media storytelling and audio-visual preservation. BAVC has been a trusted community educator, collaborator, incubator, community builder and resource for the media arts world since 1976.
Millions came together for the largest global protest in history to remind the world that young people have the power to drive real change. Every day since March 24th, 2018, we have been expanding our coalitions and working with new advocates in order to create a movement that ends the violence and elects morally just leaders into office. We will not stop our advocacy until we see the change we demand.
March For Our Lives was founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas students and alumni, coming together to make this moment different.
Upwardly Global’s mission is to eliminate employment barriers for skilled immigrants and refugees, and integrate this population into the professional U.S. workforce. We envision a United States where skilled immigrants are seamlessly integrated into the professional workforce and the fabric of American life, and are recognized for the value they add to both.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter Bay Area chapter covers all 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, and work closely with our sister chapter in Sacramento. BLM Bay Area members organize and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. We support Black-led organizations that amplify power and voices on Black communities here at home; and we work in alliance with Black communities and other oppressed communities across the country. BLM Bay Area is led by a core team of founding members, and driven by working groups and committees. Every other month, BLM Bay Area hosts a general meeting in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Our current priorities are to strengthen radical Black organizing and create opportunities for everyday Black folk to engage, build local political power, and support action and policy to end the mass incarceration of all Black people.
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (BAGRC) empowers young people through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity, and teamwork. BAGRC is committed to gender justice and creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of marginalized gender identities and expressions.
Because Justice Matters supports women who are victims of sexual exploitation and domestic violence as well as those experiencing isolation due to economic and cultural challenges. Located in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, BJM meets women’s physical and emotional needs by building genuine relationships with these women through coffee/mother’s brunches, nail days, youth dance classes, parenting classes, ESL classes, and more.
Camp Reel Stories
Camp Reel Stories
Camp Reel Stories believes that when women and girls are better represented behind the scenes in the media, they will be better reflected on the screen. Camp Reel Stories empowers young women with the skills to create their own media, to view current media critically and thoughtfully, and to aspire to leadership in their field.
MISSSEY supports and advocates for youth who are victims of child sex trafficking. They are a survivor-centered, trauma-informed organization confronting the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Oakland, in Alameda County, and throughout California.
Oasis for Girls partners with young women of color aged 14-18 from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures. Oasis’ three programs—RISE Life Skills, CREATE Arts Education, and ENVISION Career Exploration—each focus on key tenets of holistic girls’ development.
Oasis for Girls partners with young women of color aged 14-18 from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures. Oasis’ three programs—RISE Life Skills, CREATE Arts Education, and ENVISION Career Exploration—each focus on key tenets of holistic girls’ development.
Techbridge Girls inspires girls in underserved communities to discover a passion for science, technology and engineering by providing access to hands-on learning and real-world exposure needed to pursue their dreams and careers. Techbridge Girls works with families, role models, school districts, and other partners to help guide the path to success for the girls they support.
is a participatory grantmaking experience that RSF has experimented with and championed for over eight years. The process shifts decision-making and allocation authority for gift money from donors to Circle participants, otherwise known as grantees. By transferring control of grant funds, we nurture a space where trust, accountability, reciprocity, and relationship can occur beyond what we’ve seen with traditional philanthropic models. And since we design Circles with a key issue area in mind, participants have their proposals reviewed by peers in the field, opening up the prospect of powerful collaboration.
We are thrilled to host another WCC Shared Gifting Circle at our offices in San Francisco, and look forward to the meaningful collaboration and sharing that’s to come.
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