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The MinKwon Center for Community Action is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of the Korean American community in New York City. First established as YKASEC in 1984, the MinKwon Center is based in Flushing, Queens, which has a large Korean population. MinKwon focuses in particular on reaching marginalized community members, such as ...
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. [1]
www1. .nyc. .gov. /site. /dycd. /index. .page. The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development ( DYCD) is the department of the government of New York City [3] that supports youth and their families through a range of youth and community development programs, and administers city, state and federal funds to community-based ...
The Youth Activism Project (YAP), founded in 1992, is an international non-partisan organization designed "to encourage young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply about." [1] YAP has various projects and focuses on online activism. Formerly called Activism 2000 Project, the organization provides a variety ...
Through YPI, charities receive important funding from the youth of their community, and students - acting as young philanthropists - become powerful agents of social change . YPI is currently run in 370 schools to over 50,000 students annually in North America and the UK. Grants delivered through YPI total over $11,000,000 CDN as of November 2014.
The Global Youth Action Network ( GYAN) is an international network of youth NGOs spanning 180 countries, and headquartered in New York, near the United Nations. GYAN is a youth-led not for profit organization (registered in 2001, New York [USA], under section 501 [c]3) that incubates global partnerships and increases youth participation in ...
Youth With A Mission (typically shortened YWAM, generally pronounced / ˈ w aɪ w æ m /) is an interdenominational Christian training organization. Founded by American missionary Loren Cunningham and his wife Darlene Cunningham in 1960, YWAM's stated purpose is to "know God and to make Him known".
Children and Youth International, formerly Rio+twenties, is a non-governmental youth-led and volunteer based youth empowerment organization based in Brussels, Belgium, New York, USA and Brighton, UK. Its goal is to "build capacity and empower young people and their representative structures to actively participate in the preparatory processes ...