Our Principles
The principles that guide our work and selection criteria.
Power of Youth Organizing
Young people, with their courageous leadership, have exposed injustice, built community power, and captured the public’s imagination about the change that is possible when communities organize.
Cultural Arts Strategy
Execution of strategies based on cultural production and artistic practices afford individuals the opportunity to redefine ourselves in relation to each other, norms, and institutions, therefore redesigning values, systems, and dynamics that shape everyday life.
Youth-Led Innovation and
Intersectionality
Young people are inherently intersectional, innovative, and open to experimentation. Youth need spaces to learn about and test intersectional, creative, and diverse approaches to achieve scale and build power available to them by creatively centering approaches like culture, art, and story.
Equitably Resourced
Youth organizing has historically embedded arts and culture in the work, however, philanthropy has siloed funding and inadequately resourced cultural and arts strategies in youth organizing. We must invest equitably in young people to continue implementing and testing these strategies as they seek to win and to fund them at scale.
