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Carolina Youth Power Fund (CYPF)

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Overview

Carolina Youth Power Fund

Program Status: Active (Fall 2020 cohort documented)

Geographic Scope: North Carolina (focus on Durham, Raleigh, Rocky Mount)

Overview: The Carolina Youth Power Fund supports youth-led and youth-focused organizations working on civic engagement, voter registration, financial literacy, environmental justice, and democracy reform.

Focus Areas:

  • Youth civic engagement and voter registration

  • Financial literacy and economic empowerment

  • Environmental justice

  • Democracy reform

  • Student debt and higher education advocacy

  • Leadership pipeline development

  • Cultural and community education programs

    • Grantee Examples (Fall 2020 cohort):

  • YourVoteYourVoice (NC Central University voter education)

  • ISLA Jóvenes Podcast (Spanish-language youth podcast)

  • Wall Street Juniors (financial literacy and community libraries)

  • NC Asian Americans Together Youth Engagement Program

  • HER Legacy, NC (women and minorities in truck driving)

  • Project Sigma Vote (voter registration and GOTV)

  • Millennial Movement (civic engagement in Rocky Mount)

    • Contact: Southern Vision Alliance, info@southernvision.org | P.O. Box 51698, Durham, NC 27717

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    Fields of Work

    youth-leadershipyouth-programsenvironmental-justicegrassrootsbipoc

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