• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agency: Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC)

Campaign Academy is a leadership training and scholarship program designed to give young leaders the skills and knowledge to lead a campaign to make positive change in their community. Each year, we recruit a core of eight to ten youth leaders to organize a campaign on a community issue selected by the group. The youth leaders research the issue, identify targets, develop strategies, and organize their peers and allies to achieve their campaign goal. Previous youth-organized campaigns include: advocating for healthier school lunches, improvements to the Community HUBS/Open Space Project in Chinatown, and most recently implementing Ethnic Studies in the San Francisco Unified School District.

• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agencies:  Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) & People Organized to Demand Economic Rights (PODER)

Common Roots Youth Organizer Program is a collaborative summer youth leadership program serving low-income Chinese and Latino youth in San Francisco. The Common Roots Program provides an opportunity to develop cross-cultural and cross-racial awareness and links among youth from the two largest immigrant communities in the U.S.

The youth participating in the program go through an intensive environmental and economic justice leadership development program. Moreover, the youth are rooted in grassroots, direct action campaigns that impact on local and regional institutions that affect youth, low-income residents and people of color. The program aims to instill in youth an understanding and commitment to participating in the political process and broader movements for social change.

• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agency:  Mission SF Community Financial Center (Mission SF)

The mission of the New ERA (Economic Rights for All) Campaign is to support youth efforts to raise awareness about economic rights andpromote financial literacy in their communities. We have seen that youth are powerful spokespeople for the issue, educating their peers, parents and family members and inspiring action on the part of other stakeholders due to their passion and thoughtful analysis. At Mission SF, youth develop confidence, organizing skills, and a sense of their power as leaders.

• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agency:  South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN)

The goal of SOMCAN's Community Organizing program is to build and support an organized South of Market (SoMa) community that takes collective action and leverages the power needed to ensure that all residents have the opportunity to voice their concerns, actively engage in civic matters and keep San Francisco City Hall accountable to their neighborhood and city.

• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agency:  Center for Young Women's Development (CYWD)

Young Mothers United (YMU) is a youth-led advocacy project that works to ensure the rights of pregnant and parenting young women during incarceration. YMU provides support and advocacy services for young mothers ages 16 to 24. YMU Project Coordinator works predominately with young mothers who are in lock-up and/or have an active Child Protective Services case. Support services include a Department of Human Services certified 12-week peer led parenting class, court advocacy and accompaniment. Our parenting classes cover topics such as healthy relationships, the impact of family violence, gender roles and more. In addition to support services, YMU coordinator engages young mothers and community members in organizing to change policy on a local, state and national level.

• Funding Area:  Youth Philantrophy
• Agency:  Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids (CHALK)

Youth Funding Youth Ideas (YFYI) is a youth-led program of Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids (CHALK) that funds youth-led projects in San Francisco that benefit the community. YFYI is composed of 15 youth from various backgrounds between the ages of 14-18. YFYI's youth staff makes funding decisions of up to $10,000 per youth project, totaling $150,000 per year.

• Funding Area:  Youth Organizing
• Agency:  People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)

POWER's Youth in Power (YIP) reaches out to youth in high schools and community centers, and use their own stories and experiences to develop a vision for Bayview Hunters Point and for the City that can offer them and all people real opportunities for economic security and emotional and social growth.

Project Sponsor:   EPSF & Horizons

Our group is EPSF which stands for Environmental Prevention San Francisco and our project has three main components: First, we will do more research through our survey asking about norms and perceptions around underage drinking. We will then design and develop the Public Service Announcement (PSA), petition, and materials for marketing tools (shirts and survivor bracelets) for our message. Finally we will host an event/open house at Horizons for the unveiling of the PSA and commitment petition.

Project Sponsors:   Mission High School & Pie Ranch

Through "Changing the Roots" students will bring locally grown foods to Mission High from Pie Ranch (an organic farm), teach healthy cooking to students, write a cook book and hold a community healthy food fair at our school at the end of the spring semester. We will also paint a food systems mural at our school and bring a CSA to the community.

Project Sponsor:   Out of Site Youth Arts Center

The Out of Site Youth Arts Center is a non-profit organization that offers free after school and summer programs in visual and performing arts to San Francisco public high school students. Out of Site youth discover the power of the arts and community to transform their community as well as their lives. This past Fall, students from the Architecture class designed a parklet that will be installed in front of Mamá Arts Cafe at 4754 Mission Street. Over spring break a group of 10 students will get to finalize the design as they build and install the parklet. This project benefits the community as a whole: beautifying the Excelsior, creating a public gathering space, making the neighborhood more green, and providing meaningful job opportunities for youth.

Project Sponsors:   College Track & 100% College Prep Institute

"Hear Our Voice" is collaboration between youth from College Track and 100% College Prep Institute. Our planned project is a youth-centered Bayview community conference with San Francisco political leaders from City Hall and the Board of Supervisors. The goal is to invite city leaders to our community in order for them to address an important issue that affects all youth in Bayview, which is the environment. Our definition of environment consists of five elements: Ecology, Health, Education, Opportunity and Safety.

Project Sponsors:   Mission SF & Gear UP

Operation GEAR UP is a partnership between Mission SF Community Financial Center and GEAR UP, a San Francisco Unified School District afterschool program designed to prepare students for college. Operation GEAR UP pilots Mission SF's innovative and nationally-recognized MY Path model in eight SFUSD high schools to provide peer-delivered financial education, specialized Prize Linked Accounts for Youth (PLAY), support to set personal savings goals, and incentives to meet them. So far, Mission SF has trained sixteen GEAR UP youth to become financial educators in their schools and communities and has offered 50 PLAY accounts to student participants.

Project Sponsor:   Chinese Community Development Center

The mission of the Adopt-An-Alleyway (AAA) Youth Empowerment Project, a youth run, youth led advocacy program, is to have high school students monitor and organize clean-ups to beautify Chinatown's forty-one (41) alleyways, provide services to the Chinatown community, and to help these youth develop leadership skills.

Annually, AAA hosts and organizes an event called the Work-A-Thon where hundreds of volunteers from schools and organizations around the city come together to beautify and clean the Chinatown neighborhood. Volunteers clean alleyways, efface graffiti, install murals, and clean Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) utilities. Our project intends to keep San Francisco's Chinatown, which is the 2nd densest neighborhood in the United States, clean and healthy for everyone.

Project Sponsor:   Streetside Stories

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit that teaches storytelling through writing, the arts, and technology. Our programs encourage young people to draw on their own life experiences for inspiration. Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories cultivates young people's voices to develop literacy and arts skills, fosters educational equity, values diversity, and builds community. Through their YEF Mini-Grant funded project, Streetside Stories Saves the Bay Air-ea, Streetside's Youth Advisory Board will be combining our value of storytelling with the goal of raising awareness about poor air quality in the Bayview district and its negative impact on the community's residents.