Getting Ready For The Mayor’s Council
Jonathan Phillips Our youth are getting ready for a planning meeting for the Mayor’s Council which is set to start soon. This creation of this… Read More »Getting Ready For The Mayor’s Council
Civic Spring Project
Lasting change in Elizabeth
Gryffin Mendonssa from Groundwork Elizabeth shares how working on the Civic Spring Project changed her mindset and motivated her to continue to be civically involved in her… Read More »Lasting change in Elizabeth
Surveying the community during COVID
This week our team was focused on getting our survey out to the community, as requested by the City Director of Health and Human Services.… Read More »Surveying the community during COVID
Prepping to speak to Kentucky teachers
This week we have a presentation to the Kentucky Department of Education teacher talk. We have been working very hard to prepare for this presentation… Read More »Prepping to speak to Kentucky teachers
Prichard Committee Student Voice Team/Coping with COVID-19 Study
Students head back to school but that doesn’t slow down the team’s work This week we have continued to conduct interviews among participants of the… Read More »Prichard Committee Student Voice Team/Coping with COVID-19 Study
Updates from Houston: more editors, Chromebooks from the City and our first newsroom day!
Shift Press fellows are receiving Chromebooks the City of Houston loaned us! This is making fellowship activities, like drafting pieces and joining Zoom workshops, much… Read More »Updates from Houston: more editors, Chromebooks from the City and our first newsroom day!
The final week in Newark and website updates!
Kaleena Berryman The Abbott Leadership Institute’s summer program ended on 8/31/20. During the final week, students worked on finalizing content development for the website. Final… Read More »The final week in Newark and website updates!
See Youth Work in Elizabeth (video)
Our videographer, Tyler Kubicz was able to edit and present us with a short video expressing the Elizabeth Civic Spring youth experiences with the program,… Read More »See Youth Work in Elizabeth (video)
New youth influence in Elizabeth
Our Youth Leader and Team management were able to follow up with a Board of Ed and Freeholder, after they visited the August 27th virtual… Read More »New youth influence in Elizabeth
Community Conversations and Shift Press Journalism Fellows
The Institute of Engagement, a youth-created and youth-run civic action organization, is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and building community among youth through its youth-produced… Read More »Community Conversations and Shift Press Journalism Fellows