Metamorphosis Foundation Competitors

Founded in 2004, the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) is a New Orleans-based non-profit organization that annually serves over 900 young people and their families. Since our inception, we have grown from a small organization focused on supporting formerly incarcerated youth to the most comprehensive nonprofit in Greater New Orleans providing services to underserved young people and their families. YEP now has locations in five neighborhoods in the Greater New Orleans region and operates four core programs: YEP Educates, YEP Enriches, YEP Mentors, and YEP Works. YEP’s mission is to engage underserved young people through community-based education, mentoring, enrichment, and employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community. Through YEP’s core programs, we address key barriers that impede young people from succeeding. Specifically, YEP addresses overarching challenges that include illiteracy, poverty and crime. YEP’s continuum of effective services attacks the root causes of these social ills and provides young people with the supports and skills they need to succeed in school and in their communities. For more information visit our website: www.youthempowermentproject.org and follow us on social media: @yepnola

Since 1990, YCS has engaged young people from diverse Santa Clara and San Mateo County communities in meaningful service-learning. Our mission is to elevate youth voices to raise community connection and equity through service. We believe in a world where youth shape a better future for all. Our evidence-based service-learning programs offer an upstream approach to youth mental health focusing on increased social-emotional learning and a sense of belonging for young people. YCS programs foster a sense of mattering by addressing community needs and leading youth-led actions focused on root causes of systemic disparities. Mattering has a two-part definition: feeling valued and seen in our relationships; and secondly, adding value and making a difference in the contexts we operate in. Research shows that cultivating a culture of connection where youth feel they matter results in increased self-compassion, relationship satisfaction, and greater belief in their capacity to take collective action to create systemic change. Lack of mattering is associated with burnout, self-criticism, anxiety, depression, aggression, and an increased risk of suicide. Through our award-winning peer leadership after-school program Youth Connect, YCS creates opportunities for youth from diverse communities in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties to come together to address the intersectionality of pressing community needs through youth-led service incentives. YCS creates space for youth to lead movement and power building by identifying tangible ways to address the complexity of numerous interconnected issues such as sustainability, social justice, policy change, and mental health.

Community Builders is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping local leaders create more livable communities. At Community Builders, we know that a strong community creates a stronger economy. We provide information, analysis, assistance, and training to support the many local officials, developers, realtors, planners, and engaged citizens who are actively working to build stronger economies and more livable communities. Located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Community Builders is a nonprofit organization managing a variety of projects throughout the American West.