Waiting for the other vote to drop
As budget season wraps up, and we return to our regularly scheduled email program, here is some recent news and upcoming opportunities to start the top of the month off with. And we'll be in touch with budget updates soon!
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Intersectional Happy Hour
A couple of weeks ago, we hosted our third Intersectional Happy Hour at Satellite Room, a series of events primarily focused on building community and knowledge sharing. They are meant to provide a chance for youth advocates to meet and talk, as well as learn about how one of our four main issue areas relate to other issues affecting our youth, and community at large.
For our most recent one, we looked at the relationship between food security and expanded learning programs. We were especially thrilled to co-host this event with DC Hunger Solutions and we welcomed their Director, Beverly Wheeler who shared a bit about the work they do to end hunger in the nation's capital.
Thank you to all those who were able to join us. And whether you made it or not, you can see our presentation below.
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DCAYA Membership
Membership informs and drives our advocacy work, both in the input member organizations are able to provide directly from the communities they work with to the financial support that comes from member dues. If your organization isn't a member, we hope you consider formally joining our coalition, especially if you found our advocacy toolkits over the past couple of months helpful in staying informed and engaged.
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Young Women's Initiative and more
The Washington Area Women's Foundation is an organization we're proud partners with, and we wanted to highlight some of the wonderful work that they've been up to recently.
- Young Women's Initiative - This is a city-wide effort the Foundation launched just a week ago, to improve life outcomes and increase opportunities for young women, girls, transgender women, and gender non-conforming youth of color between the ages of 12 - 24.
- A Fair Chance - This brief aims to spark dialogue and spur action in communities and at the local government level to improve health, educational and economic outcomes for girls, young women, transgender young women, gender non-conforming youth of color, and their families.
- 'A Day In The Life...' Storytelling Series - Using social media to shift the narrative around young women and girls of color, our 'A Day in the Life...' Campaign will feature monthly interviews with local young women and girls of color to highlight their ingenuity and resilience. Visit their Facebook page for Part 1 of Addison's story.
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America's Promise Alliance Youth Leadership Opportunities
America’s Promise Alliance is looking for two great young leaders for highly visible roles in the leadership of our organization. They are currently seeking two young people between the ages of 16-22 to serve a two-year term on our Board of Directors and with our Alliance Trustees. Each will attend annual meetings in Washington, act as a full voting member of the leadership body, and play a valuable role in shaping their strategic direction. Those selected will serve through Spring 2019. Encourage young people you know to apply!
Submissions are due June 6, 2017.
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Grant opportunities for the summer round
The Community Foundation operates dozens of individual grant rounds at various times throughout the year. They have learned from their nonprofit and community partners that this structure is difficult to navigate and track when funding opportunities are available. As such, The Community Foundation has consolidated its grantmaking to three competitive rounds with the summer round opening on June 12, 2017.
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Youth Workforce Fund
The Citi Foundation, in partnership with America’s Promise, is launching the Youth Workforce Fund, a competitive fund that seeks to make strategic investments in community-based organizations connecting low-income young people, ages 16-24, with workplace skills and employment opportunities. The $4 million Fund will award one-year grants of up to $250,000 to a cohort of grantees across 15 markets in the United States. Selected grantees will also be provided with networking opportunities and access to Citi volunteers as part of the Fund.
Request for Ideas due by June 27, 2017.
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The Future of Children: Social and Emotional Learning
This special issue of the journal The Future of Children examines the development of social and emotional learning (SEL) in school and afterschool settings, finding that these skills are essential for children and that teachers and OST staff need professional development to help children acquire them.
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Youth-Friendly DC
In case you missed them, check out some of the most recent posts from our blog!
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Empowering the youth of DC, May 17
As the school year winds down and summer is just around the corner, we had a guest blog post from Laura Irene, a board member and overall rock star volunteer with Girls Rock! DC.
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The release of Solid Foundations DC and our latest Youth Homelessness Issue Brief, May 24
Last week, we provided a brief recap on the release of Solid Foundations DC, the District's comprehensive plan to end youth homelessness, as well as our updated Youth Homelessness Issue Brief.
Thanks to those who were there, particularly panelists representing Department of Human Services, Casa Ruby, HIPS DC, the Latin American Youth Center, and Sasha Bruce Youthworks, as well as the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region and the District Interagency Council on Homelessness for co-presenting the event.
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As always, let us know if you have any questions.
- Your DCAYA Team
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