2025 Campaign for Black Men & Boys
The idea for this initiative emerged from a series of discussions among national organizations, philanthropists, community-based organizations, and concerned individuals who noted that a Black boy born in 2007 will be 18 years old in 2025 and there is a need for a change in paradigm for both our leadership and the people. Beginning in October 2005 with a National Conversation on Black Men and Boys co-convened by The Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF), the NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Public/Private Ventures, and the National Urban League, brought together more than 40 national and local leaders including adults and young people to assess the many challenges facing this group. At a follow-up meeting hosted by the Ford Foundation in July 2006, more than 120 participants representing 22 co-sponsoring organizations gathered to move the process forward. Attendees underscored their collective commitment to improve conditions for the generation of Black boys currently being raised and for the adults who support them. more
Contact: Cheo Tyehimba Taylor
A Call to Men
A Call To Men is a leading national men's organization addressing men's violence against women, and the eradication of sexism, while maintaining strong coalitions with women's organizations already doing this important work. We help to organize communities in order to raise awareness and get men involved in ending violence against women. more
Contact: Ted Bunch
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America aims to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. A Boys & Girls Club Provides: a safe place to learn and grow; ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals; life-enhancing programs and character development experiences; hope and opportunity. more
Contact: Jim Cox
Center for Family Policy and Practice -- University of Wisconsin
The Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFFPP) is a nationally-focused public policy organization conducting policy research, technical assistance, training, litigation and public education in order to focus attention on the barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families. more
Contact: David Pate
Center for Study of Race, Politics and Culture -- University of Chicago
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting engaged scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity. We are especially interested in how these ideas and their structural manifestations impact and shape people’s daily lives. Broadly, our research program encourages the study of race and processes of racialization in comparative and transnational frameworks. Thus, the work of faculty affiliates ranges from an examination of processes of racialization among dominant groups to the study of racialized minorities within the United States and black and/or indigenous populations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe. more
Contact: Waldo Johnson
Educational Video Center
The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. Founded in 1984, EVC has evolved from a single video workshop for teenagers from Manhattan's Lower East Side to become an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media education. EVC's teaching methodology brings together the powerful traditions of student-centered progressive education and independent community documentary. more
Contact: Sheila Aminmadani
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe places for everyone to learn, grow and succeed whether or not they fit stereotypes for masculinity and femininity. As a human rights organization, GenderPAC also promotes an understanding of the connection between discrimination based on gender stereotypes and sex, sexual orientation, age, race and class. The GenderYOUTH Network empowers youth leaders to build safer classrooms and communities where all youth can learn, grow and succeed, whether or not they conform to expectations for masculinity and femininity. more
Contact: Khaleaph Luis
Global Action Project (G.A.P)
Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has worked with young people, specifically those most affected by injustice, to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to produce thought-provoking media on issues that affect them and their communities, and use their media for dialogue and to build community power. more
Contact: Meghan McDermott
ListenUp!
Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support, and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media. more
Contact: Austin Haeberle
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides quality programs and services to and advocates on behalf of black journalists worldwide. Many of NABJ's 3,300 members also belong to one of the dozens of professional and student chapters that serve black journalists nationwide. more
Contact: Christopher Nelson
Society of African American Professionals
A society of African-American Boys & Girls Club professionals organized to provide counsel, advice and support for the advancement of African-American professionals for the general good of the Boys & Girls Club Movement. more
Contact: Jim Cox
The New York Life/Schomburg Center Junior Scholars Program
The Junior Scholars Program is a Saturday school geared toward students of African descent throughout the New York Metropolitan area. Its primary goal is to ground young people in the histories and cultures of people throughout the African Diaspora. The program recruits youth between the ages of 11 and 17 for an intensive, 26-week, series of Saturday sessions, from 10am-3pm, designed to prepare them for intellectual and entrepreneurial careers. more
Contact: Carlyle Leach
The Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF)
The Twenty-First Century Foundation facilitates strategic giving for black community change. Specifically, 21CF works with donors to invest in institutions and leaders that solve problems within black communities nationally. The Black Men and Boys Initiative, a project of 21CF, is designed to identify, highlight, and support effective strategies that focus on supporting Black men and boys and to surface new sources of support from individual donors and institutional philanthropy to supplement this effort. more
Contact: John
The Young People's Project
The Young People's Project recruits, trains, and deploys high school and college Math Literacy Workers for mentoring middle and elementary school students. Math Literacy Workers come from the communities the Algebra Project seeks to serve, namely low-income urban and rural areas. more
Contact: Omo Moses
Youth Movement Records
Youth Movement Records is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project based in Oakland, California. Launched in 2003, YMR has reached over 15,000 youth with more than 100 safe, sober weekend events. YMR has engaged over 500 youth directly in producing four original CD’s, planning and creating performances, and giving youth the opportunity to gain and sharpen professional and life skills. more
Contact: Ryan Peters