Programs and Organizations of Interest to Children and Youth
Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children works to champion a culture of compassionate individuals, families, and communities who have fun with, learn from, and responsively and lovingly interact with children. We accomplish this by providing guidance about consciously conceiving, birthing, and nurturing children.
901 Preston Ave, Suite 400
Charlottesville, VA 22903
USA
Tel: +1-206-666-4301 (voicemail or fax)
Website: http://www.atlc.org/
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DW
Tel: + 44 020 7413 5507
Tel: + 44 020 7413 5814
Fax: + 44 020 7956 1157
Website: http://www.amnesty.org/
Co/Motion is a national program that helps organizations build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. Their role is to provide the support -- training, guidance, and networking opportunities -- young people need to be successful in their efforts to promote social change.
Alliance for Justice
Co/Motion
11 Dupont Circle, NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, D.C., 20036
Tel: 202-822-6070
Fax: 202-822-6068
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.allianceforjustice.org/student/co_motion/
The Good Toy Group works to unite the finest independent toy stores in America in a co-operative venture to market creative, culturally sensitive, constructive playthings that promote happy, healthy childhoods. A collective of 58 unique toy retailers with 86 locations from Alaska to Massachusetts, each tailored to suit the community it serves, each punctuated by the particular personality of a hands-on, kid-wise shopkeeper.
The Good Toy Group
43 Hidden Bay Drive
S. Dartmouth, MA 02748
USA
Tel: +1-508-979-5550
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.goodtoygroup.com/
Homies Unidos is a non-profit gang violence prevention and intervention organization with projects in San Salvador, El Salvador and Los Angeles, California. The organization was founded in 1996 in San Salvador and formally began organizing in the United States in 1997.
Homies Unidos Los Angeles
1625 West Olympic Blvd Suite 706
Los Angeles CA 90015
Tel: 213-383-7484
Fax: 213-383-7482
Email: [email protected]
Homies Unidos El Salvador
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.homiesunidos.org
The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development unleashes the potential of youth, adults, organizations, and communities to engage together in creating a just and equitable society.
6930 Carroll Avenue
Suite 502
Takoma Park, MD 20912
USA
Tel: 301-270-1700
Fax: 301-270-5900
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/
The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment of all living things.
8700 Georgia Ave, Suite 500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
Tel: +1-240-645-4000
Website: http://www.janegoodall.org
The King Center was established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, as the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America’s greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace.
The King Center
449 Auburn Avenue, NE
Atlanta, GA 30312
USA
Tel: +1-404-526-8900
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.thekingcenter.com
Learning to Give K-12 works to teach the importance of voluntary action for the common good in a democratic society. Provides guidance on teaching democratic and philanthropic principles to children, and about systems for passing on the tradition of private citizens working for the common good.
630 Harvey Street
Muskegon, MI 49442-2398
Tel: +1-231-767-3100
Fax: +1-231-773-0707
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.learningtogive.com
Milestones Project is a beautiful collection of images that shows children that other children from around the world are "just like them." A photographic tribute that shows our shared humanity. A million people diminishing hatred ...one by one.
1350 Lawrence Street, Plaza H
Denver, Colorado 80204
USA
Tel: +1-303-572-3333
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.milestonesproject.com
Seattle Young People's Project is a youth-led youth empowerment organization set up to provide young people with a voice to effect social change.
2820 East Cherry Street
Seattle, Washington 98122
USA
Tel: +1-206-860-9606
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.sypp.org
Staying Alive began in 1998 as an Emmy award-winning documentary profiling the lives of six young people from around the world infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Growing from the tradition of annual documentaries, Staying Alive has expanded to include a multi-tiered campaign to promote awareness about and prevention of HIV/AIDS in the international youth community.
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://eu.staying-alive.org
TakingITGlobal is an international organization, led by youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people in more than 190 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change.
19 Duncan Street, Suite 505
Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3H1
Canada
Tel: +1 (416) 977-9363
Fax: +1 (416) 352-1898
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.takingitglobal.org
The Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation working nationally to support young women 15 to 30. Through financial resources, public education, and relationship building, Third Wave helps support and strengthen young women and their allies working for gender, racial, social, and economic justice.
511 W 25th St. Suite 301
New York, NY 10001
Tel: +1-212-675-0700
Fax: +1-212-255-6653
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org
UNICEF Voices of Youth offers children and adolescents, including the hard-to-reach, a safe and supportive global cyberspace within which they can explore, discuss and partner on issues related to human rights and social change. It works to develop their awareness, leadership, community building, and critical thinking skills through active and substantive participation with their peers and with decision makers globally.
Voices of Youth
3 United Nations Plaza
New York City, New York 10017
USA
Tel: +1-212-326-7000
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.unicef.org/voy/
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery.
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.vday.org
World Birth Forum works to bring the voices of leading women and children to the forefront of our global problem-solving dialogue. As a news magazine World Birth tackles the difficult issues; never leaving readers without a solution that is working somewhere in the world, and tell these stories from the perspective of powerful, leading women and bright, visionary children.
World Birth Forum
5935 NE Skidmore Street
Portland, OR 97218
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.worldbirth.org
World Centers for Compassion for Children International is a non-profit organization founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams. The organization's mission is to create a strong political voice for children in areas of stress due to war, hunger or social, economic, or political upheaval and to respond to their expressed needs materially and emotionally.
Knock Inverin
County Galway
Ireland
Tel: 353 (0) 91 593304
Fax: 353 (0) 91 505816
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.centersofcompassion.org
The Young & the Restless - Highlander Center offers the democratic space and the skills for youth aged 15-21 to find their own voices and leadership. The program works with young people in a number of ways, including extensive outreach, field visits, and ongoing backup to support youth activists in their communities; and an intensive, youth-led camp called Seeds of Fire that gathers 20-25 young activists and provides them with peer-based training and experiences that open up the concepts of youth power, critical thinking about organizing, and ownership of their own projects and organizations.
1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820
Tel: +1-865-933-3443
Fax: +1-865-933-3424
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.hrec.org/p-young.asp
Youth Action is a group of youth building power, demanding justice, and creating change. YouthAction's vision is to prepare the new wave of youth who are, and will continue to be, the lifeblood of community improvement efforts for the coming decades.
PO Box 12372
Albuquerque, NM 87195
Tel: +1-505-873-3345
Fax: +1-505-873-3245
Email:[email protected]
Website: http://www.youthaction.net
The Youth Activism Project (formerly the Activism 2000 Project) was founded in 1992 as a private non-partisan organization to encourage young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply about.
P.O. Box E
Kensington, MD 20895
USA
Tel: +1-800-KID-POWER
Email: [email protected]!
Website: http://www.youthactivism.com/
YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. Supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, YouthNet conducts research, disseminates information, improves services, and strengthens policies and programs related to the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS-prevention needs and rights of young people around the world.
Family Health International - YouthNet
2101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22201
U.S.A.
Tel: +1-703-516-9779
Fax: +1-703-516-9781
Website: http://www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/index.htm
Youth Speak works to build and nurture the next generation of leaders through the written and spoken word. Innovative programs nurture and develop the youth voice and promote positive social dialogue across boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture, and sexual orientation. Throughout each facet of the organization, Youth Speak encourages active literacy, honest writing, and critical thought.
2169 Folsom Street, S-100
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.youthspeaks.org
Youth Struggling for Survival is a youth-driven and youth-directed social action group that aims to bring youth together along their common interest, and to help divert often violent energies toward self empowerment, social change, and unity.
Tel: +1-630 820-8717
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.youthstrugglingforsurvival.org/
Zero to Three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. We are dedicated to advancing current knowledge; promoting beneficial policies and practices; communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences; and providing training, technical assistance and leadership development.
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
2000 M Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
USA
Tel: 202-638-1144
Website: http://www.zerotothree.org
