Welcome to the Youth Activism Project

Monday, November 28, 2011
In the United States, 26% who participate in school and community activities,
26% who spend over $170 billion a year,
and 26% who care about the world.
However, that’s also 26% of the population who cannot vote
and 26% who are supposed to be seen and not heard,
making for a resounding 100% of the future
who have not been encouraged to exercise leadership today.

Shouldn’t young people have a voice in issues that directly concern them?

Nearly half the entire world population–46%–is under age 18
and these young people represent 100% of the future. Maximum youth involvement is absolutely essential for building a smarter, healthier and more peaceful world.  

THERE’S NO MINIMUM AGE FOR LEADERSHIP.

This site aims to prove that MINORS can play a MAJOR ROLE. Everyone–especially teens and tweens–are invited to email or call our toll-free hotline. Also, our national nonprofit clearinghouse provides information and resources to youth workers, mentors, teachers, principals, policy makers, parents and organizations that want to support young advocates. Click on YOUTH STRATEGIES for free downloads of our youth empowerment publications.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization (Tax ID 75-3163810). Our administrative costs represent less than 5% of our budget so your financial contribution will go a long way to support our youth leadership development activities, especially our groundbreaking award winning African-American initiative called School Girls Unite. Students in Mali and Maryland co-authored Girls Gone Activist! How to Change the World through Education, a bilingual e-book available free at www.SchoolGirlsUnite.org.  Our firsthand involvement with girls being denied access to education and often being forced into marriage led us to start a national campaign for the U.N. to establish the International Day of the Girl. Check out the progress and join the movement for gender equality worldwide at www.DayOfTheGirl.org or www.Facebook.com/DayOfTheGirl.

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