YouthBuild
YouthBuild was founded in 1990 and "is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GED or high school diploma, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing, and transform their own lives and roles in society." [1]
Funding
"The Ford Foundation was one of the initial private partners of YouthBuild USA. Since 1993, the Ford Foundation has granted YouthBuild USA several grants totaling over $10 million to support various efforts. In 1995 the Ford Foundation made a $2 million Program Related Investment loan and a $200,000 equity grant that enabled YouthBuild USA to establish the YouthBuild Loan Fund. In March 2000, the Ford Foundation provided a $2 million endowment grant to YouthBuild USA." [2]
Board of Directors
- Roy O. Priest, Chairman
- Stanley Rumbaugh, Treasurer
- Melvyn Colon, Secretary
- Leroy Looper, Chairman Emeritus
- David M. Abromowitz, Esq
- Antoine Bennett
- Michelle Courton Brown
- Calvin Cotton
- Karen Fulbright-Anderson
- Larry Del Carlo
- Cliff Johnson
- Andrew Hahn
- Francisco Medrano
- Sikina Lee
- Eimy Santiago
