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Get excited because The Young People’s Project (YPP) is on the move: building partnerships, ensuring our sustainability and expanding programs. Each day we invest in young people who are investing in each other. In so doing, they are creating change in their lives, their communities and their country.
Please read on to find out about YPP’s new partnership with The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, and our work with Growing Power to reconnect young people to the land and introduce them to sustainable agriculture.
We are also on the move, raising funds through multiple strategies. From youth-led ventures to a house party in the Hamptons, we are building our capacity to connect with the YPP community and cultivate your support. Next month we will be launching our first annual year-end campaign.
We hope you will join us by becoming a donor this month! Your support will help us reach more young people. Check out the exciting expansions happening in Michigan, and read about the trainings and leadership development we have offered in the past months. Honoring the notion “each one teach ten” we know that every trainer and young leader that we support will return to his/her community to reach many more young people.
Thank you for being part of the YPP Community!
Building Partnerships...
YPP Partners with the Center for African-American Studies at Princeton University
Research in Action - YPP and the Center for African-American Studies at Princeton University are pleased to announce a new 3-year strategic partnership to develop and launch a research-based Summer Internships for Princeton students with YPP in Mississippi.....read more
Growing Power YPP Mississippi Update
(Update by April Dortch, Site Director, Jackson, MS)
This past September, YPP Jackson participated in its first two-day training workshop as a part of its Growing Power sustainable agriculture program. The training took place at the YPP Mississippi property also known as "The House"....read more
Ensuring Sustainability...
TYPP@75 - History, Culture, Connection
YPP, The Hot 8 Band, Black Men of Labor and The Urban Bush Women joined in creative collaboration at TYPP@75 in East Hampton in late August 2009. For the second year, Artist/Philanthropist Toni Ross and Kathy Engel hosted the event to generate financial support and awareness for ongoing YPP projects, specifically in New Orleans and the gulf region....read more
The Mississippi House Party: A Huge Success
This past week, YPP Mississippi held its first ever house party, hosted at the home of Dr. Geraldine Brookins....read more
A Profile on Marcus Brandon
I was introduced to YPP through a mutual friend of mine and executive director Omo Moses. I personally have been fundraising for political campaigns for a number of years, and had started making the transition to organizational fundraising by working with Progressive Majority and Equality Virginia as their development director...read more
Broadening Impact...
Leadership Development Institute: Cohort #2
LDI Cohort 2 Participants represented various areas of YPP, from program management to instruction to organizational operations, and from sites and programs accross the country.)
The leadership development Institute is an ongoing training facilitated by Jim Burruss from the Hay Group. Burruss has over thirty-five years of experience conducting leadership development personnel training in the corporate sector. His strategy for the trainings are to view competencies and conditions that contribute to excellence in the workplace and then gauge how to develop people so they become excellent leaders...read more
YPP Michigan Program Expansion
At a YPP Community Kick Off event at Lincoln Senior HS, Math Literacy Workers take a special "oath".
In the last year alone, YPP-Michigan has drastically expanded from a handful of part-time staff, to a full time director and 23 part time staff. It has gone from 20 to 90 high school math literacy workers and has doubled the number of school districts it serves to a total of 6...read more
Q&A On Mississippi Car Wash With April Dortch
1) What was the Car Wash about?
This was an event used to raise funds to support the math literacy work in Mississippi.
2) What was the goal / objective?
We decided to have two car washes to raise at least $500 each. We ended up making $682 at our first car wash, so we are on our way to meeting our overall goal.
4) How did you feel the participants were personally impacted by the event?
They learned how to do some physical teamwork and tell about YPP in a short amount of time. People were proud to see their hard work pay off with the amount that was raised. We are also in the process of learning how to take money earned from smaller fundraising efforts and have larger fundraisers to yield more profit.
5) In what ways did it promote YPP’s mission?
YPP is all about young people taking the initiative to help themselves and this was a good example of us coming together and doing just that.
6) Where are the pictures (smile)?
Sorry no pics of the carwash. All hands were on deck !
YPP Training of Trainers 2009 in Joshua Tree, CA
This past August a group of 15 trainers from YPP sites and programs across the country gathered for a ten-day residential training retreat. This year the training took place in the high desert town in Southern California known as Joshua Tree.
Check out an excerpt from the Training Blog...
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