Articulate Creatures of the Elements: ACE Workshops and Events, a project to introduce Hip Hop to youth from all walks of life in a positive and nonviolent light. Sponsoring Organization: Richmond Village Beacon/RDNC
Candeo: Tutoring Program, a project to promote peer guidance and academic support to Roosevelt Middle School students. Sponsoring Organization: Maps Program
Conscious Roots: Truth Amplified, a project in which participants will become facilitators and proponents of culturally relevant education and will help foster critical thinking and revolutionary change among their peers. Sponsoring Organization: Homey /ICRI
District 11 Youth Council: Youth Summit, a one-day youth summit for youth in District 11, featuring youth-led workshops on education, culture/diversity, health, and violence prevention. Sponsoring Organization: Coleman Advocates
Girls in the Hall: Keeping it Real, a new ’zine featuring written works and visual arts pieces done by imprisoned young females. Sponsoring Organization: Bay Area Teen Voices
HEAL (Healthy Eating And Living) Group @ GMC: HEAL Club, a project seeking to establish healthy lifestyles, high self-esteem, and positive self-image among young people. Sponsoring Organization: Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Kaliyoni: “A Day in Our Shoes,” a play about the real-life experiences of young women with racism, discrimination, incarceration, sexual harassment, poverty, and dysfunctional homes. Sponsoring Organization: Center for Young Women’s Development
Next Level Movement: Elements of Hip Hop, a series of five events demonstrating the various forms of Hip Hop. Sponsoring Organization: All For One
Organic Entrepreneurs: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders, a project to provide youth interns with the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners with business skills through hands-on experience with gardening. Sponsoring Organization: S.F. League of Urban Garden
San Francisco Public Library Teen Advisory Council (TAC): DJ Workshop Series, a project designed to promote the use of the library by teens by offering free DJ workshops. Sponsoring Organization: San Francisco Public Library
South of Market Teen Center: DJ Training Workshop, a project to create DJ workshops for youth to learn the skills for becoming a proficient DJ. Sponsoring Organization: S.O.M.A Teen Center
Turning Heads: Entrepreneur Workshops, a project to provide entrepreneurial skills to youth from continuation high schools and Log Cabin Ranch. Project members will hold numerous workshops for youth to aid the start of a business, such as materials, financing and legal aid. Sponsoring Organization: Youth for Service
USF Upward Bound Visual & Performing Arts Project: Magazine Project. Sponsoring Organization: USF Upward Bound
You Can Cook: Cooking Show, a project to create a television program viewed on public access channel that expands and improves the nutritional cooking skills of youth. Sponsoring Organization: OMI / Excelsior Beacon
Young Asian Women Against Violence: Youth Empowerment Through Arts, a performance event that will include skits, poetry, music, and other forms of art on the topics of racism, sexism, and respect. Sponsoring Organization: Community Youth Center
Young Queens On the Rise: Learning to Protect Ourselves, a project to provide youth with awareness and prevention workshops about STDs, pregnancy, HIV, drugs and violence. Sponsoring Organization: Mission Neighborhood Center
Youth for Asian Theater: Youth for Asian Theater Performance, a project to produce and provide community performances on topics ranging from life skills to living with peer pressure. Sponsoring Organization: Sunset Residents Association
Island Fire Club: Polynesian Club, a new club at Thurgood Marshall High with goals to improve the academic standing of club members and to celebrate and learn about Polynesian culture. Sponsoring Organization: Thurgood Marshall Academic High School
Marin Youth Grants Board
2001-2002 Funded Projects
Beyond Recycling: Beyond Recycling, a convention for middle and high school students and adult environmentalists to raise environmental awareness and promote environmental responsibility beyond recycling in youth. Sponsoring Organization: Marin County Bicycle Coalition
Canal Youth Group: Canal Sports and Leadership Group, a project to involve 11-16 year olds in a year round program to develop and help coordinate new cheerleading and dance programs, a winter basketball league, and girls softball. Sponsoring Organization: Our Future Foundation
Drake High Peer Resource: California Association of Peer Programmers Conference, a three-day, statewide event for young people in peer resources programs to learn about topics like smoking and tobacco use, body image, suicide, eating disorders, depression, etc. Sponsoring Organization: Sir Francis Drake High School
Huckleberry Peer Health Educators: Video Makers, a team-building project to create a video to address issues such as: HIV, STD infection, pregnancy prevention, depression, LBGTQ issues, eating disorders, and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. Sponsoring Organization: Huckleberry Teen Health Programs
REACH Community Focus Group: Street Theatre Team, a new way to educate youth—
outside the classroom and through drama—about HIV/AIDS and related issues. Sponsoring Organization: Marin AIDS Project
REACH Presentation Focus Group: A Dance to Live For, two dance events held in Marin City at the Manzanita Recreation Center to provide a safe place for young people to socialize while learning about HIV/AIDS and related issues. Sponsoring Organization: Marin AIDS Project
Redwood High School Interact Club: Disability Awareness and Interaction Carnival, a project to provide a safe, enjoyable environment in which persons with disabilities can interact with youth of their community and to increase awareness, tolerance, and education about persons with disabilities at Redwood High School and in the greater community. Sponsoring Organization: Rotary of Marin, Sunrise
San Marin Peer Resource: California Association of Peer Programmers Conference, a three-day, statewide event for young people in peer resources programs to learn about topics like smoking and tobacco use, body image, suicide, eating disorders, depression, etc. Sponsoring Organization: San Marin High School
San Rafael High School Gay Straight Alliance: Jump Start Projects, various projects including a newsletter, t-shirts, student speaker training, and educational travel to increase the organizational capacity, leadership skills, and visibility of the newly formed Gay Straight Alliance at San Rafael High. Sponsoring Organization: San Rafael High School
San Rafael High School Latino Club: Latino Cultural Heritage and Recognition Dance, a project to raise awareness about the contributions made to America via Latin culture and prominent Latinos, including authors, scholars, and activists. Sponsoring Organization: San Rafael High School
Sister Circles: Sister Circles, an 8-week series of workshops hosted by older teen women to increase knowledge, self-confidence, and positive outlook in young women age 13-15. Sponsoring Organization: Community Alliance/Marin Youth Council
Youth For the Future: Los Tres Reyes Magos (The Three Wise Men), a traditional Hispanic event based on the story of The Three Wise Men to provide disadvantaged children aged 4-11 with presents, to foster interaction between children and teenagers, and to keep the Los Tres Reyes Magos tradition alive in the younger generation.
Young Women’s Empowerment Group: Outreach Together, a project in which YWEG members will make presentations at junior and senior high schools in Marin County about their experiences with issues like teen violence and crime, teen pregnancy, HIV and STD infection, teen pressure, substance abuse, personal responsibility, and life planning. Sponsoring Organization: Huckleberry Teen Health Program
Student Action Fund
Spring 2002 Funded Projects
Fremont High School — Polynesian Club: Pacific Islander Studies Curriculum, a class created by the Polynesian Club to renew cultural pride among students of Polynesian heritage and teach faculty and students in the Fremont High community about Polynesian culture.
Tennyson High School: Student Voice Class, a class called “Student Voice” which will teach students about community organizing and activism, and provide hands-on training on how to make social change.
Berkeley High School: Unity Project, a Multicultural Assembly created by Leadership Class students, with representation from all of the school’s different clubs and activities, to promote greater interaction and understanding among different social groups.
Castlemont High School: Youth Together Student Unity Center, an effort in the short-term to designate a single building where the myriad student groups on campus could coordinate joint campaigns, and in the long-term to eliminate the uniform high school exit examination.
Alhambra High School: Martinez Youth Challenge Program, a mentorship program building relationships between upper class students and eighth graders planning to enter the school, to make the high school environment more safe and supportive.
Life Learning Academy: Senior Project, a senior trip and outdoor survival class, after which seniors will make a student body presentation highlighting their learnings from the trip.