Fiscal Year 2008-2009

Voices of the Next Generation

Voices of the Next Generation was a film campaign from a group formally known as YMAC. YMAC is a group of high school students working together to make a better city for youth. This project created a video project that showed some of the many struggles of youth in San Francisco and stories of overcoming struggle in their communities.

*Funding Amount: $7,650.00

(Filipino Community Center incorrectly named)

ADING

ADING was meant to enable and unite the Filipino and Non-Filipino youth in the Excelsior District and its surrounding schools such as Balboa High School and James Denman Middle School. In this organization, they tried to create a safer place and a better community, for youth. They developed a hope for the creation of a better and more enjoyable learning experience. This organization offered many programs such as community clean ups, workshops (homework help, hip hop, poetry, etc.) sports, even learning about the Filipino culture and so much more. A field trip was offered, specifically to those who participated in the workshops continuously. Lastly, by doing this project, they hoped to keep youth away from violence and expand the population of members in the community.

*Funding Amount: $9623.00

Asian Club Assembly

Asian Club’s goal for this performance was to raise Asian awareness in their community. This mainly benefited all students of Thurgood Marshall High School. Their club members learned traditional and modern Asian dances and learned how to perform in front of an audience. Their club’s stage crew also learned how to use lighting and sounds for the performance. Performances included a variety of dances from traditional Chinese dances to Korean pop. They had two shows, one during school hours and one during the evening. During the daytime performances, all students of Thurgood Marshall attended. The evening show was for parents, and friends, etc. All the youth of this project volunteered their time. They ordered traditional Asian dance costumes, as well as decoration supplies, club t-shirts, etc. A dance choreographer and a lion dance troupe were also among those hired.

*Funding Amount: $5055.00

Families United in our Neighborhood (FUN)

This project's purpose was focused on giving teens a fair opportunity, by allowing them to spend their evenings away from the hood, at a safe place to: do homework, have dinner, and enjoy fun activities. All youth participating learned how to be leaders in their neighborhood. Five (5) core values were taught: caring, responsible, respect, trust, and family. At dinner, they discussed their values in such a way, in which everybody was involved. After dinner, followed engagement in pre-chosen scheduled activities. At the end of the month and during the youth's spring break vacation, they went on an overnight outing. They took a trip to go shopping in Milpitas, dinner, and ice skating.

*Funding Amount: $8343.44

Final Fridays

Youth forum and an open-mic poetry slam were hosted by Final Fridays, on the last Friday of the month. During the forum, they discussed topics that related to youth, while discussing different solutions for the problems that youth face. In the forum, there were members of the Student Advisory Council, who brought solutions and ideas to the school board. Afterwards, Final Fridays hosted an Open-mic for poetry. They got inspirational speakers and poets from various organizations such as Youth Speaks and then opened it up to more amateur speakers.

*Funding Amount: $10000.00

Just Us Girls

A group composed of all girls, Just Us Girl, got together once a week and discussed issues that affected young women. Etiquette classes, graduation dinner, women’s conference field trips, and a retreat to encourage the development of healthy young women were among some of the many things conducted by this project.

*Funding Amount: $7420.00

Minor Consent Education

The Balboa Teen Health Center (BTHC) Youth Advisory Board (YAB) was a group of youth, who assisted with advocating for the issue pertaining to that of the health rights for teens. Many projects were faced, with a focus on benefiting the youth in their school and community. Their largest goal was simply to implement Minor Consent Rights into SFUSD standard health education curriculum. A power-point presentation was presented, that they intentionally made for health teachers. To define there group in the community, T-shirts were made.

*Funding Amount: $2645.00

Peaces

This project's aim was to create a mural/mosaic art piece, which expressed youth issues such as: anti-violence, physical health, government involvement, youth helping youth, education and enlightenment of youth. This mural gave youth an opportunity to speak out to the community, while representing their voice and thoughts through a visual and creative form. They wanted to send a message across, that even as individuals they are connected through a very large community and that many are experiencing the same issues. They planned to invite youth from all different schools and community agencies, to come together and help put a piece into the mural/mosaic. They also involved volunteers and other community participants, by giving them a chance to decorate their own personal tiles, which was put together to compose the frame of the mural/mosaic.

*Funding Amount: $8600.00

PODER

PODER’s youth leaders managed to: do research, give out surveys, conduct workshops, have a block party, and do a presentation in front of the city’s own District of Supervisors at the end. All done with the purpose of informing the city’s youth of the gang injunctions, along with the idea of how it will affect them, while brainstorming alternatives with the city’s supervisors to repeal the gang injunctions.

*Funding Amount: $6450.00

Project Runaway

Project Runaway was a project that a local Bay Area group, Females Against Violence, was carrying out to help battered women and teen runaways open their doors to self esteem and have a new perspective of life by giving them make-overs inside and out. All with the help of the FAV girls, participants were offered workshops to improve social skills and impressions with the professional leadership of a fashion coach and life skills coach. The last month of the project, a fashion runway show was held, in which they aired episodes of Project Runaway SF.

*Funding Amount: $9055.00

Recording Studio

Recording Studio was a project that wanted to set up a studio in the Third Baptist Church, for youth in the Fillmore area. The youth believed that music was a major part of youths' life. Although few rarely get the chance to do anything, they wanted to start involving youth in and with music. Through the recording studio, they wanted to provide youth the opportunity to channel their creative music mind in a positive way.

*Funding Amount: $6767.36

Summer Entertainment & Education 4 Kids (SEEK)

SEEK was a project that benefited the children of the Potrero Hill Community. This project helped youth stay out of city streets. Youth often had trips with the Rec. Center to look forward to, but with the low budget that Park and Recreation provided just is not enough to fulfill the activities. The Potrero Hill Recreation Center was often used to keep these youth active and playing sports. All of these activities  kept these youth looking forward to summer trips. They took bi-weekly field trips to places such as Marine World, Great America, Water World, Skating in Milpitas and Santa Cruz.

*Funding Amount: $7735.00

Vietnamese In Power (VIP)

V.I.P was a project that helped students gain leadership skills, as well as new comers. These leadership skills included: public speaking, planning, organizing, and building awareness in the community. They challenged themselves by outreaching and talking to people in the community. They also raised awareness, did research, and looked for guest speakers for their project.

*Funding Amount: $8909.74

YTEP

Youth Trainer for Economic power provided workshops to youth on how to handle money and credit. They made changes to their curriculum so it would be easier for the Youth to understand it. They developed eye catching visuals for trainings. The also created a video to show the different ideas that they train on. They also were trying to train as many young people as they could so that the young people would have a successful future.

*Funding Amount: $8500.00

Comic Food

Comic Food helped youth create their own comics plots, brainstorm ideas, and transform them into their very own professional comics. Comic Food reached out to youth from all over the San Francisco area with a specific focus on the SOMA district.  They helped youth tell their stories through different viewpoints and perspectives. Comic Food conducted weekly Wednesday meetings for six months in which youth learned the process of creating and publishing comic books. Their mission was to give youth a chance to express themselves through their very own voices in the media. The project distributed the comics they had created to neighborhoods organizations for free.

*Funding Amount: $7,900.00

Mission Recycling Committee

MRC encouraged youth at Mission High School to go green and recycle. They provided recycling bins for each classroom, and they conducted weekly meetings to see how the project was going. Rewards were given to those who recycled the most. They then presented their project to three different schools to encourage others to go green as well and recycle by providing incentives.

*Funding Amount: $6,790.00

Youth Entrepreneur Association (YEA)

YEA vonducted sessions that enhanced the leadership skills and entrepreneurship skills of youth. They taught youth about being financially independent as well as organizational skills helpful for college. Yea covered four main topics: savings and investments, budget basics, checking basics, and credit basics. They primarily targeted youth in District 9 and had approximately 100+ beneficiaries.

*Funding Amount: $3870.00

Tenderloin Kutz

Tenderloin Kutz taught several college bound youth how to start their own businesses and raise money that could potentially help them with their college funds. The main focus was to teach youth who aspired to go to college, basic skills on how to manage a business. All Fifteen (15) youth leaders of the project were high school students and received hands on training from their very own neighborhood barber, Mr. Chea. Today, there business is running and successful.

*Funding Amount: $6,225.00

Urban Youth Arts Zine

Urban Youth Arts Zine created a limited edition full color copy of their community art magazine. The youth oriented magazine highlighted the public youth art in the San Francisco area by students participating in the Precita Eyes Urban Youth Arts Program. The class also created a safe environment for youth and served as an outlet for self expression.  The youth were trained in computer graphics, design, photography, drawing, and community journalism.  These are all skills that could potentially be useful for future jobs. The community also benefited by this project because they were able to see the finished product. A portion of the magazines were sold at the Precita Eyes store and the rest of it went to community based organizations.

*Funding Amount: $6607.00

Bayahihan Krew

With the support of the Bayanihan Community, a group of youth started a program that held Hip-Hop workshops and gave other youth the opportunity to create their own music in a recording studio. The group conducted meetings twice weekly (Thursdays & Saturdays) to plan for upcoming events. Once a month they held assemblies and performances to showcase talents so that other people in the communities could come to support community recreation. While conducting assemblies, they held open-mic allowing people to share their poems, raps, songs, etc.

*Funding Amount: $8,360.00

L9-Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI)

The goal of this project was to educate their peers on the issue of global warming and environmental justice and come up with feasible solutions to those problems. They strove to educate the diverse student body at Mission High School as there are not a lot of minorities involved in the environmental justice movement. They involved their students in various ways, such as including workshops on green technology, inviting guest speakers, presenting in classrooms and making presentations on green practices. They also created and worked on projects to make Mission High School greener and helped teachers integrate environmental justice into there curriculum. They integrated multimedia into there various presentations by producing videos of their presentations and posting them on Mission High website, which will allow students outside of Mission High School to view there presentations as well as spark their interest in going green at their school and/or homes.

*Funding Amount: $8,250.00

L4-H.O.O.K

H.O.O.K, or  Helping Out Our Kids, is a project that battled the infestation of drug and alcohol abuse so that today’s kids can have a better tomorrow. They got a group of youth and enrolled them into boxing classes where they taught other youth how to box. The youth held workshops about different subjects ranging from teen pregnancy to Drug Abuse. Approximately 150 youth learned and gained valuable life skills from the HOOK project.

*Funding Amount: $10,000.00

L2-Move About Theater

The Move About Theater Company was a movable theater that used a different location for every scene. Their goal was to enrich the community through interactive movement and provide free, accessible, high-quality theater across the community. Volunteer high school students worked to put on 4 plays through out the duration of the project. They conducted weekly meetings and discussed rehearsal material for their plays. They also planed auditions for new actors. Their first production was Alice in Wonderland.

*Funding Amount: $1,550.00

K15-The Mural

The Mural’s goal was to design and paint a mural with community volunteers at the assessment center. The assessment center is a place for children who are either entering or already enrolled in the foster care system to go when they have nowhere else to go. The youth leaders partnered up with Precita Eyes muralists and volunteers from the School of the Arts and created the ideas for the Mural. The purpose of the mural was to brighten their environment whilst stemming the relentless process of urban decay. The volunteers designed and painted the mural along with the youth leaders.

*Funding Amount: $6,911.00

L6- Project W.H.A.T

Project W.H.A.T, or Where Here And Talking, is a group of youth that are dedicated to raising awareness about parental incarceration. The project raises awareness about the impacts of parental incarceration on children, with the long-term goal of improving services and policies that affect these children. WHAT! stands for We’re Here & Talking, which is exactly what the team is doing. Over 7 million children have a parent under supervision of the criminal justice system—on parole, probation, or incarcerated. The program employs young people who have experienced parental incarceration—or those who have a parent under the supervision of the criminal justice system—as the primary curriculum content developers and facilitators for trainings. Through the duration of the projects first year and a half, they completed a research report, wrote and recorded their personal stories, published and distributed a resource guide for teens with parents in prison or jail. They researched over 1,000 service providers and youth by speaking at conferences and doing trainings, mostly in the Bay Area.

Youth Advisory Board

Youth Advisory Board is a group of youth from Balboa High School that advocate for health rights for youth in San Francisco. They have several ongoing projects that they intend to maintain, including Minor Consent Education. It is their goal to educate youth across the district about their health rights. They have presentations to Health Ed classrooms. In addition to their ongoing projects, this year, the Youth Advisory Board is developing a new project. The YAB inteneds to develop lessons and presentations geared towards youth about the health care reform process and how it affects youth.

*Funding Amount: $3250.00

Blood Donation Awareness

Blood Donation awareness goal was to promote awareness of donating blood and what it can do for people throughout their community. Some activities they planed were posted youtube videos, passed out pins, set up a website, sold t-shirts, and other items for fund raising. They advertised by bus stops and t.v commercials. By doing this they made their community aware of how blood donating is essential to a healthy community.

*Funding Amount: $5,464.94

Youth Leadership Program

Youth Leadership Program's goal was to educate homeless, formerly homeless, and foster kids in high school. Participants learned employment skills such as punctuality, communication and computer skills. Youth leaders provided participants with academic support and tutoring sessions. Participants were mentors for kids who needed support and attend educational and life skills workshops. The youth learned the value of community service work by participating in a weekly community service projects such as the soup kitchen and the zoo.

*Funding Amount: $10000.00

Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI)

The goal of this project was to educate their peers on the issue of global warming and environmental justice and come up with feasible solutions to those problems. They strived to educate the diverse student body at Mission High School as there is not a lot of minorities involved in the environmental justice movement. They involved their students in various ways including workshops on green technology, invited guest speakers, went into classrooms and made presentations on green practices. They also created and worked on projects to make Mission High School more greener and help teachers integrate environmental justice into there curriculum. They also integrated multimedia into there various presentations by producing videos of their presentations and posting them on Mission High website, which will allow students outside of Mission High School to view there presentations as well as spark their interest in going green at their school and/or homes.

*Funding Amount: $8,250.00

Voices of the Next Generation

Voices of the Next Generation was a film campaign from a group formally known as YMAC. YMAC is a group of high school students working together to make a better city for youth. This project created a video projects that showed some of the many struggles of youth in San Francisco and stories of overcoming struggle in their communities. All of this was done while getting youth more involved in understanding their situation simply by participating in YMAC campaigns.

*Funding Amount: $7,650.00

Earthquake - Chinatown SRO Prepared

Chinatown SRO provided educational workshops on earthquake safety and fire hazards to residents of single room occupancies in Chinatown. They distributed brochures, that where also displayed on bulletin boards in the buildings that held single room occupancies. Ten youth workers and twenty volunteers had meetings once every month for twelve months in which they discussed what task they had completed and what to plan for the next months; each of the youth where assigned different buildings, where in charge of providing workshops as well as helping the elderly in case of an actual earthquake. The Emergency starter kits consisted of bandages, flashlights, gloves, long lasting food, and it will come in a large zip lock bag.

*Funding Amount: $9,160.00

Unity Starts With U

Unity Starts With U's goal was to inform the youth about the violence that takes place in their community, and prevent further crime in their neighborhood.Violence prevention starts with younger kids and if they inform them now on the importance of a violent free community they will take steps towards a non-violence future in the community.They will host plays at their local elementary and middle school regarding violence prevention. Their overall goal was to organize a community Peace Walk that other nonprofit in the community as well as local schools attended. By doing a Peace Walk they brought attention to our community, in hopes that they could make a difference. The Peace Walk was a free event, open for the public to enjoy food and entertainment.

*Funding Amount: $7,926.03