Music and Art
Future of Music Coalition - If you’re an artist, or working in the independent music world, the FMC is your friend.
MusiCares - Helps musicians and music people with financial assistance, health care referrals and addiction recovery.
Air Traffic Control - ATC works to connect musicians and fans to political and social causes, harnessing the power of music to create change.
Fractured Atlas - Fractured Atlas is a great org that provides low cost health insurance, liability insurance and fiscal sponsorships to music and arts organizations as well as musicians and artists.
Young Leadership
Free Child/Common Action - Tools and training for young people and adults in schools and community organizations. Awesome resource list and good newsletter. Sign up to get a monthly bibliography of things to read.
Generation Change Leadership Directory - The Center for Community Change has put together an amazing list of progressive leadership opportunities around the country that you can take advantage of.
Movement Strategy Center Library - MSC is leading the field in discussions about Youth-Led projects and organizations. Check out “Making Space for Making Change” a look at the organizational models of 5 rad youth-led orgs.
youthandcommunity.org - The University of Michigan Youth and Community Organizing program has undertaken participatory research projects on everything from youth participation in public policy to dialogues on race and ethnicity. These academics get it.
The National Youth Rights Association - The Youth Civil Rights Front.
Activism
Center for Civic Participation - CCP works on building a participatory democracy. Lots of Artist and Activist stuff there.
Rock the Vote - Music and voting - our two favorite things!
Your Revolution - Young people and voting - another winning combination! These folks are advocating for online vote registration in all 50 states. That would be rad, huh? They love to talk about voter registration events so get in touch.
Media
Wiretap Magazine - Lots of amazing articles written by young people about politics, activism and music. Check out the "Movement" section to read articles in our "Turn the Beat Around" series!
The Stranger's Underage column - A column that runs every week in Seattle's weekly newspaper, the Stranger, about the all-ages happenings there.
Organizational Development
co-ops and collectives
North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) - NASCO is a resource organization for collectives organized as co-ops.
nonprofits
The Innovation Center for Community & Youth Development - A very dope resource for research and toolkits on effective programming and abolishing adultism in nonprofits.