The City of Elizabeth is in the process of creating their 10-year Master Plan. Groundwork Elizabeth will provide opportunities for youth voices to coordinate policy… Read More »Civic leader stays with youth on call for nearly two hours!
The Minnesota Young Champions team in Minneapolis has been steadily working with local lawmakers to introduce provisions for young people lacking unemployment. Last week a… Read More »Minnesota Young Champions Working With Local Lawmakers
In the midst of school closures, our team wondered both about the pre-existing educational inequities that we’ve been working to address since our inception and… Read More »Coping with COVID Student Study August News Coverage
Amand Ebokosia, Newark Youth One Stop During the Gem Project Fellows final week, they took part in week 2 of an intensive, where they were… Read More »Gem Project Fellows wrap up final week
The Civic Spring Project was featured on MSNBC in August. WW President Rajiv Vinnakota and Civic Spring Project youth grantee Emanuelle Sippy were interviewed by… Read More »Civic Spring Featured on MSNBC
Chris Suggs, Kinston Teens, Inc This week, Kinston Teens and NC Field led efforts towards the fulfillment of our project goals. One major goal for… Read More »capacity-building & expanding our network
PRICHARD COMMITTEE STUDENT VOICE TEAM Pragya Upreti Coping With COVID-19: Student-to-Student Study Lexington, KY “We’re major stakeholders in the fight to create a more equitable… Read More »We’re major stakeholders in the fight to create a more equitable education in the midst of added uncertainty
The COVID-19 crisis exposes and exacerbates pre-existing inequities in our education system that aren’t being reported enough. Through a mixed methods student-led research approach, we… Read More »Learning to present data and working on inter-generational teams
Through a mix of art, research, policy briefs, advocacy training, personal narrative writing, videography, and photography, Newark youth will grapple with the effects of COVID-19… Read More »Gem Project virtual museum live; ALI conducts key interviews
The focus for this week was collaboration and understanding intentions. We started the week with a meeting of NC FIELD’s Poder Juvenil Campesino (PJC) group… Read More »Equipping youth with proper tools to be effective and conscious