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Welcome to the Youth Violence Prevention Funder Learning Collaborative
The Youth Violence Prevention (YVP) Funder Learning Collaborative is a network of businesses, foundations, government agency funders, and key experts formed to share knowledge, identify funding gaps and promote dialogue to help funders and businesses coordinate and strategically align their efforts to increase their impact on youth violence in Boston.
The YVP Collaborative takes a public health approach to youth violence prevention and is focusing its initial efforts to ensure adequate funding support to five communities along the Blue Hill Avenue corridor: South End/Lower Roxbury, Dudley Square, Grove Hall, Bowdoin/Geneva, & Morton/Norfolk.
We believe that our Collaborative is innovative in the way that it links expertise, funding, and leadership from across sectors, and that we are positioned to become a recognized leader in coordinating funding towards preventing youth violence.
The YVP Collaborative is a signature initiative of the State Street Foundation.
Learn about the YVP Collaborative
Bostonians for Youth
The YVP Funder Collaborative congratulates Trinity Boston Foundation on hosting Bostonians for Youth 2012: Getting to Zero. Thank you to Collaborative members and partners for their participation in the selection process and contributions to the dinner. Three community-based organizations, selected through the Collaborative's RFP process, will receive a share of the proceeds from the event.
Friends of Youth Opportunity Boston
News and Updates
Launch of Summer Jobs+ Bank
On May 2nd, President Obama and the White House announced the launch of the Summer Jobs+ Bank (beta), "a new online search tool to help connect young people to jobs, internships and other employment opportunities this summer and year." This database will make it significantly easier for low-income, disconnected, and disadvantaged youth to access both public and privated sector employment opportunities. In January, as a part of the American Jobs Act, President Obama announced the Summer Jobs+ initiative, a call to action for business, non-profits, and governments to provide pathways to employment for youth in the summer of 2012. This initiative now has committments from employers to provide nearly 300,000 employment opportunities.
To read the White House Press Release, please click here.
To access the Summer Jobs+ Bank (beta), please click here.
National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention: April 2 - April 3, 2012
"The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention is a network of communities and federal agencies that work together, share information and build local capacity to prevent and reduce youth violence." We are proud to say that Boston is 1 of 6 cities who has participated in this Forum since it was established by President Obama in 2010. From April 2 - April 3, local and state officials from each city, as well as national and governmental officials, joined together at the Summit on Preventing Youth Violence to share and develop comprehensive plans that will help alleviate and eliminate youth violence across the country. As a Boston-based Collaborative, we are excited to see the outcomes of this Summit.
For more information on the National Youth Forum, please use the links below:
About the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention
National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan April 2011 – April 2014
City of Boston's Youth Violence Prevention Plan
White House Honors Boston's Emmett Folgert and Andrea Perry as National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention "Champions of Change"
On Wednesday, April 4th, the White House honored two of Boston's leaders in youth violence prevention. Emmett Folgert, founder and executive director of the Dorchester Youth Collaborative (DYC), was one of tweleve leaders recognized for their work to prevent youth violence within their communities as part of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. Andrea Perry, who is the executive director of YouthConnect, an advocacy and intervention program of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston, was also honored for her work in preventing youth violence. Perry also participated in a panel discussion at the Collaborative's Symposium last December.
To learn more about the "Champions of Change," please click here.
Folgert's "Champions of Change" profile.
Perry's "Champions of Change" profile.
Statement of Youth Violence Prevention Core Principles: Sign On
The YVP Collaborative presented a Statement of Youth Violence Prevention Core Principles at the December 2010 Symposium.
These core principles of youth violence prevention were developed to help guide the activities of the Collaborative as well as the activities of the individual members of the Collaborative. Our hope is that these will be adopted by foundation, business, government and nonprofit leadership in the Boston community. They can be used to:
- Inform the strategies the Collaborative purses, as well as how those strategies are executed
- Identify organizations and programs to support or fund
- Guide collaboration between public, private, and nonprofit actors
These core principles were derived from the literature on youth violence and youth developemnt, from best practices around the country and from the experience and expertise of Collaborative members. Please click here to download a copy of the core principles. Please click here to sign your name or organization to the Statement of Core Principles.