Many of the biggest challenges nonprofits face (funding instability, data capacity, staffing, space) aren’t individual problems, but shared ones. This session explores how an emerging “network of networks” in New York City is helping organizations tackle these challenges collectively — and what it might look like to apply this model in other regions.

In a recent survey published by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, US high school principals report that immigration enforcement is causing harm to their school communities – including fear and anxiety among students and families, lost enrollment, and declining attendance and learning.

Join GTY, NYU Metro Center, University of Michigan, and the National Parent Leadership Institute to discuss findings and recommendations from the “Building Power Together: Family Civics in Communities of Color” study.

Immigrant youth are targeted by an onslaught of hostile actions designed to disrupt the safety and security of their families and communities and bar their access to education and economic wellbeing.

As young people across the country continue to face anxiety, depression, and trauma, a new report argues that access to nature may be one of our most powerful—and scalable—strategies to help youth thrive. The Nature of the Outdoors: Stronger Youth Development Through Exploration shows how nature-based programs—often overlooked or thought of as nice-to-have—can play a transformative role in building participants’ positive identity, relationship skills, emotional regulation, and sense of purpose.

Young people recognize that environmental justice requires connecting environmental impact with a wide-range of social issues and addressing the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities. Young people are drawing attention to these issues and demanding an intersectional approach to the environment that is grounded in community-oriented solutions.

Young people are fighting for increased awareness, support, and access to opportunities for healing and wellbeing. They are shifting the narrative about youth mental health to acknowledge that it’s okay to not be okay.

Young people deserve economic and workforce development policies that enable them and their families to thrive.