In order to be considered for the Youth Power Lab groups must:
Be a base building organization with an explicit commitment to anti-racism and a practice of running grassroots organizing campaigns
Share power with youth in critical organizational decision making processes and centers young people of color and/or working class young people
Commit to grapple with questions of effective power building strategies and the scale needed to shift conditions at the local, state, and national level
Be willing to be honest and vulnerable about the strengths and limitations of their current and historical approach to organizing and organizational model
Commit to have at least one organizational leader - defined as someone who has significant decision making power or influence within your organization - to fully participate in the Miami gathering (May 14th - 17th, 2020) as well as the pre-gathering virtual sessions and shared study
Be open to engaging in shared experimentation following the Lab’s in-person gathering (ex. projects, collaborations, shared strategies, etc.). Groups who decide to not continue with the Lab beyond the in-person gathering commit to completing an exit interview
Be willing and able to shift current base building, leadership development, and campaign development methodologies to improve the youth organizing field and broader social justice movement