“Make Space at the Table” The Philanthropy Journal, February 19, 2007, by Wendy Wheeler. Wendy makes the case for why foundations and nonprofit organizations need to welcome and promote youth engagement in philanthropy and social change efforts. Copies can be found online from the Innovation Center through this link.
“Youth Engagement: A Celebration across Time and Culture: Proceedings Summary” by Innovation Center Vice President Hartley Hobson documents proven practices, promising ideas, and ideas to expand the impact of the three-day seminar coordinated by the Innovation Center that brought together youth activists from across time and culture and their adult allies as part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Seminar series. More information can be found at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation website.
“Youth Leadership for Development: Civic Activism as a Component of Youth Development Programming and a Strategy for Strengthening Civil Society” from the Handbook of Applied Developmental Science. Published in 2003, this article by Wendy Wheeler outlines the rationale, framework, and implications of engaging young people, particularly young people from challenged backgrounds, as leaders in the development of themselves and their community.
“Youth-Led Community Building: Promising Practices from Two Communities Using Community-Based Service-Learning,” Journal of Extension, February 2005. Written by Innovation Center partner Linda Camino, Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this article explores how community-based service-learning that promotes youth engagement and voice while providing services to communities can be a powerful tool in creating positive and lasting change.
“Emerging Organizational Theory and the Youth Development Organization,” Journal of Applied Developmental Science, Volume 4, Supplement 1, 2000. Written by Innovation Center president Wendy Wheeler, who also served as a guest editor for this issue, this article explores the connection between youth development organizations structures and emerging organizational practice theory, using the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and KLCC II partner organization Mi Casa Resource Center for Women as examples.
Innovate is the Innovation Center’s newsletter and monthly message which highlights stories, tools, innovators, and ideas from our work to connect thinkers and leaders of all ages to develop fresh ideas, forge new partnerships, and design strategies that engage young people and their communities.
