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YCFA 🌱 is a youth-led & youth-centered network taking on corporate climate villains and ending extractive industries. We're excited to be joining the Summer of Heat Campaign and raise funds directly to support young leaders taking action.
Too often youth organizers with the voice and lived experience needed to steer us toward vital climate solutions are overlooked and under-resourced in favor of more privileged youth. We award funds to young people unable to access traditional funding mechanisms, responding to the many costs that pose a challenge to equity in youth organizing.
We train young people on nonviolent direct action skills and knowledge, so that they can take the experience and tactics back to their communities and campaigns.
Whether it is $5, $50, or $500, your contribution helps us:
⚡Facilitate youth-led and centered in-depth trainings and community building opportunities on the ground in NYC, as well as remotely
⭐ Expand our existing operations infrastructure for flexible and rapid regranting to youth organizers via our Organizer Support Fund (OSF)
⚡Meet, train, and absorb youth climate organizers who want to take the campaign against fossil financiers from the streets this summer to campus in the fall
⭐ Outreach to and coach other youth throughout the summer to grow their leadership and non-violent direct action skills
⚡Continue to be a support and strategy hub for students and youth groups organizing against Citibank, fossil fuel financiers, and other extractive industries.
The young people we work with have immense organizing potential and power. With support, resources, and community, they will radically change the world for the better. We offer young people the tools to not only build power now, but to become lifelong organizers.
💡 About YCFA
Our team is composed of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic group of young organizers, all 27 and under, from across the vast geography of this country, who have been active in the youth climate movement and in other connected social justice movements, some of us for upward of a decade. Our staff has organized with US Youth Climate Strike, People's Climate Movement, and many successful campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns, including Columbia and Dartmouth Universities, as well as the ongoing Ohio State University campaign. Each of us has witnessed the horrors of climate destruction and fossil fuel impacts firsthand. We know a better world for our families, friends, and communities is possible when we organize. We focus our efforts on our peers, with the overwhelming majority of our coachees and Organizer Support Fund grant recipients being fellow youth of color committed to direct action and movement skill building that invests in their authentic leadership. Reach out to us at info@ycfa.earth or visit us at ycfalliance.com.
Read on below for more details on the broader Summer of Heat Campaign:
Time has run out for “solutions” that tinker at the edges of the climate crisis. The world’s most powerful companies must be forced to cut off fossil fuels. That’s why this summer, we’re organizing thousands of people into 3-5 disruptive civil disobedience actions every week for at least 3 months. Our plan is simple: organize a sustained direct action campaign until big banks, insurers and investors stop funding the coal, oil and gas companies polluting our communities and killing our planet.
From the civil rights movement to ACT UP’s fight to save millions of lives during the AIDS pandemic, non-violent direct action is how everyday people can fight back against the most powerful business and government leaders. That’s why we’re going hard all summer long. Week after week. Month after month. We’re fighting for our lives and we won’t back down.
But while history shows that nonviolent civil disobedience is one of the most effective tools to bring about change, big institutional funders are nervous about funding this campaign. So, we need your help.
** We need your financial support. **
*We are
organizing sustained, disruptive action the entire summer. *
Since February, we’ve onboarded 1,000+ people who are committed to taking direct action against fossil finance. 60+ organizations have endorsed the effort. And we'll need outreach materials, texting and email tools, and meeting spaces to keep growing these numbers
Your donation will support organizing and recruitment, action planning, legal support, trainings, frontline travel, and more. For example:
- $35 can allow us to text 1,000 supporters about upcoming actions
- $75 can provide one activist taking direct action pro-bono legal support
- $120 can fund a person’s participation in a half-day nonviolent direct action training
- $333 can pay for a day for a convergence space, where we can make art, hold meetings, and break bread together
- $1,000 can help cover the travel, lodging, and food for a frontline fighter joining actions in NYC
- $2,000 can pay for one month of an organizing fellow
If you donate at least $100 by May 31st you can choose the "reward" of a special edition "Hot People Hate Wall Street" t-shirt.
Donations are not tax-deductible - the Climate Organizing Hub is collecting funds for this campaign and funds are managed by representatives of the convening organizations of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street. If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation, please email info@climateorganizinghub.org to get details on how to do that.
Summer of Heat on Wall Street is a collective project of the Climate Organizing Hub, New York Communities for Change, Planet over Profit, and Stop the Money Pipeline, and is endorsed by over 60 organizations.
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