Boston-area Youth Organizing Project

BYOP is a live community of youth, supported by adults, who are fighting for justice in the Boston area and beyond! We are involved in local, regional, and national projects for social and youth justice.We are an organization of youth, led by youth and supported by adults, who are united by a common purpose: to increase youth power and create positive social change. To do this, we develop counter-cultural values, build relationships across differences, train and develop leaders, identify key issues of concern and take action for justice.

Location: Boston, MA

Highlights:

About the Boston-area Youth Organizing Project:

• BYOP has had a string of accomplishments at individual schools as well as citywide since 1996. The organization leads meaningful campaigns to increase the quality of schools and education. See descriptions of some of their victorious campaigns here.
• BYOP develops leaders and organizers for social change by training youth on different issues that they need to be informed on and comfortable with in order to become responsible and aware human beings.

Links:

• Boston-area Youth Organizing Project - http://byop.org/index.php

Submitted by Shawn Strader on: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 10:48 am

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