See what a community looks like when civic leaders believe youth engagement is critical for a healthy community—young people directly advise city representatives, city employees, and educators.
Creating the Means and Opportunity for Reflective Practice in Youth Development
Over the last decade, the occupational field of youth workers—individuals who work with young people—have strengthened their professional development training programs and networks to reflect a youth development perspective.
Youth as Nation Builders
In Europe and South Africa, the youth movements have matured to the next level—nation building—that is, forming new federal and state governmental institutions with representative youth reviewing and affecting legislation.
Building Youth Movements for Community Change
Whether youth are working to address problems specifically facing youth or issues affecting the entire community, all youth involved in organizing must confront and overcome the fact that young people are politically disempowered and denied access to the decision-making process.
Rethinking Youth: Perceptions of Young People Shape Public Agenda
Rethinking the concept of youth is necessary because the social, economic and political conditions under which young people are growing up are changing.
Rejecting the Isolation of Youth—Adults and Organizations Dramatically Benefit
A succinct contextual history of how our culture and policy has isolated youth and then shares powerful evidence that the new practices of inclusion have positive effects upon youth, adults and organizations.
Welcome: Mapping Strategic Relationships
An introduction to the entire issue that goes over the importance of our major theme: building strategic relationships.
The Magic of Dialogue
Before you can begin to collaborate, you must find out to whom are you talking–and the only way to do that is to engage in a special form of talking: dialogue. Here are some tips on how to do it well.
The More Things Change? Disinvestment the Wrong Way Around
Sometimes, things don’t change–and sometimes they get worse. Funding going to grants for racial and ethnic minorities has declined not simply proportionally, but in absolute terms in recent years.
Collaboration: A Generosity of Spirit
The editors set out a definition of what we mean by collaboration—it’s a practice more than a discrete action.
Strategic Restructuring: “The Survival of the Fitting”
The possibilities for organizational structures and relationships are limitless. We present a collection of innovative structural responses to sticky quandaries.
When Collaborations Go Bad
Being strategic about collaborations means knowing when to say “no.” Sometimes the purpose of the collaboration or nature of your partners precludes beneficial outcomes—find out when to back out gracefully.