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Youth Power Coalition

We are youth leaders and adult allies building a movement for youth-led collective impact.

The Youth Power Coalition (YPC) weaves community, makes information accessible, develops leaders, mobilizes resources, and advocates for youth power. Youth-led collective impact is both outcome and process. The outcome is every Black teenager is safe, every child has housing, every young person can shape the world.

The process is

  1. community-led, particularly by young people most impacted by inequity
  2. comprehensive, recognizing the interdependence of systems, institutions, people, history, and context
  3. co-creative, with people of diverse backgrounds, identities, and perspectives working together
  4. equity-centered, unrelenting in our pursuit of a world in which social, economic, and political outcomes are not based upon a person’s background or identity
  5. well-capitalized, investing generously in community-led change
  6. caring, valuing not just metrics and numbers, but dignity, respect, and belonging
  7. courageous, where we dare to be vulnerable, take risks, and act

We call these the 7C’s of Collective Impact.

Our project is to create a mass training program that equips young people of color and
from low-income backgrounds with the skills needed to organize youth-led collective
impact efforts.

“Mass training is not one big training. Mass training allows for thousands of leaders to join your movement while maintaining autonomy (allowing people to take independent action) and unity (on the key DNA of the movement – the story, strategy, structure, and culture). Mass trainings accomplish the following:

  • Give people the ability to act autonomously through distributing the DNA of the
    movement.
  • Replicate and scale – everything in the training program from the curriculum to the roles to the support structure is systematized in order to grow exponentially while maintaining quality.
  • Provide transformative leadership development experiences, such that participants leave with a transformed understanding of themselves as leaders, and a new vision for what’s possible.” —Mass Training Webinar, Momentum Movement

We will have created a mass training program when we have

  1. A standardized curriculum
  2. A cohort of young people and adult allies to lead training sessions
  3. The infrastructure to support 10,000 people joining the youth-led collective impact
    movement at any given time

 

The Youth Power Coalition (YPC) weaves community, makes information accessible, develops leaders, mobilizes resources, and advocates for youth power. Youth-led collective impact is both outcome and process. The outcome is every Black teenager is safe, every child has housing, every young person can shape the world.

The process is

  1. community-led, particularly by young people most impacted by inequity
  2. comprehensive, recognizing the interdependence of systems, institutions, people, history, and context
  3. co-creative, with people of diverse backgrounds, identities, and perspectives working together
  4. equity-centered, unrelenting in our pursuit of a world in which social, economic, and political outcomes are not based upon a person’s background or identity
  5. well-capitalized, investing generously in community-led change
  6. caring, valuing not just metrics and numbers, but dignity, respect, and belonging
  7. courageous, where we dare to be vulnerable, take risks, and act

We call these the 7C’s of Collective Impact.

Our project is to create a mass training program that equips young people of color and
from low-income backgrounds with the skills needed to organize youth-led collective
impact efforts.

“Mass training is not one big training. Mass training allows for thousands of leaders to join your movement while maintaining autonomy (allowing people to take independent action) and unity (on the key DNA of the movement – the story, strategy, structure, and culture). Mass trainings accomplish the following:

  • Give people the ability to act autonomously through distributing the DNA of the
    movement.
  • Replicate and scale – everything in the training program from the curriculum to the roles to the support structure is systematized in order to grow exponentially while maintaining quality.
  • Provide transformative leadership development experiences, such that participants leave with a transformed understanding of themselves as leaders, and a new vision for what’s possible.” —Mass Training Webinar, Momentum Movement

We will have created a mass training program when we have

  1. A standardized curriculum
  2. A cohort of young people and adult allies to lead training sessions
  3. The infrastructure to support 10,000 people joining the youth-led collective impact
    movement at any given time

 

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