The Kornfeld Foundation is thrilled to announce grants to ten youth-serving and youth-led organizations as part of our partnership with the Youth Organizing and Culture Change Fund (YOCCF).

School-age children walk along the sidewalk displaying signs that read "Stop Killing Us", "We are all living creatures", and "Black Lives Matter".

Established in 2022, YOCCF brings together community and cultural leaders, artists, and funders with the goal of empowering young people to advance racial and social justice in their communities. Together with the Ford Foundation, the Kornfeld Foundation provided seed funding for YOCCF, and the Fund’s community of support now includes more than a dozen philanthropic partners.

Inaugural YOCCF grantee organizations are:

Groundswell

Groundswell brings together artists, youth, and community organizations to use art as a tool for social change.

Flanbwayan

The Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project has assisted hundreds of Haitian newcomer youth in NYC public high schools since it was founded in 2005. They ensure Haitian newcomer youth 14-21 years old are appropriately placed in high schools that support their ability to remain in school and graduate.

CAAAV

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities works to build grassroots community power across diverse, poor, and working-class Asian immigrant communities in New York City.

Brotherhood Sister Sol

The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) is where Black and Latinx youth claim the power of their history, identity, and community to build the future they want to see. By educating, organizing, and training, they are challenging inequity and creating opportunity for all.

DreamYard

DreamYard collaborates with Bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways to equity and opportunity through the arts.

FIERCE

FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City.

Make the Road New York

Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice.

Sistas & Brothas United

Sistas & Brothas United (SBU) develops youth leadership through academic support services and community campaigns to change conditions in our schools, neighborhoods, and beyond.

El Puente

The mission of El Puente is to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice, working as a human rights institution in NYC and Puerto Rico with national and international impact. El Puente creates community-led movements of self-determination through a holistic leadership and membership program model, as a high-impact youth and community development organization.

DRUM

DRUM was founded in 2000 to build the power of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean low wage immigrant workers, youth, and families in New York City to win economic and educational justice, and civil and immigrant rights.

YOCCF had its public launch on January 23, 2023. View the press release to learn more details about the fund, its capacity building partners, and its community of support, and follow YOCCF on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Announcing YOCCF, A New Fund to Empower Youth Organizers