In November, PFF Program Officer Laura McCargar joined Michael Moody of the Johnson Center for Family Philanthropy and Katherine Lorenz of the George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference in Houston, Texas to talk...
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of PFF grantee partner Hearing Youth Voices (HYV), the New London Board of Education recently voted to enact a new district-wide attendance policy. The new policy emphasizes supports and interventions when students are absent...
How does youth-led social change benefit young people and communities? This fall and winter we partnered with the Eastern Connecticut Community Foundation and the Connecticut Community Foundation to facilitate community dialogues about impact of youth-led change....
In recent months, young people and community activists across the country – and in New Haven, CT – have come together to call for an end to police abuse and racially targeting policing practices and demand increased police accountability. In New Haven,...
Youth and adult teams from youth led programs around the state of Connecticut recently came together at Neighborhood Studios in Bridgeport for an intensive weekend-long workshop to learn how theater can be used to address lived injustices. This transformative...
Young people that have played sustained leadership roles in youth organizing efforts are more likely than their comparable peers to enroll in four-year colleges and universities and engage in various civic activities in early adulthood. A groundbreaking new study...
