Criteria
In order to be considered for the Youth Power Lab groups must:
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