It’s SYPP’s 20th Birthday!

Join Seattle Young People’s Project as we celebrate our 20 year anniversary of supporting young people to become community leaders and changemakers!

This year look forward to endless old photos from our past, delicious desserts, video interviews with former SYPP youth organizers, and some serious community building.
You’ll be sharing a table with 7 friends so start asking each other now. Please invite folks who might be featured in our 20 year slideshow, please invite folks who have heard you talk about SYPP but who have never met us, and please bring your family. We are looking forward to celebrating our past, present and future!

What’s a FamBam?
fam·i·ly [fam-uh-lee, fam-lee] noun + bam [bam] noun, verb =  Fam·Bam
-noun
1. a night of sharing, storytelling, eating and laughter with old and new friends.
ex. I can’t wait to go to the fambam tonight so I can eat til I burst and laugh til I cry!

-verb
2. to bring communities together to celebrate the accomplishments of youth organizers with families, community and SYPP supporters.
ex. I’m glad we fambam’d last night. I learned so much about everyone there!

 

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SYPP’s Bowl-a-thon Fundraiser is BAAAACK!

SYPP Bowl-a-thon 2011

Blast to the Past:

Classic fashion through the decades

DATE: DECEMBER 17, 2011 Saturday

TIME: 12-4pm

SYPP’s Bowl-a-thon is a youth-organized, grassroots fundraising event that brings together youth, allies, and community members dedicated to supporting youth power and youth activism in Seattle.


There will be food, fantastic prizes, free t-shirts, and incredible flashbacks to fashion firsts, fits and flops!


Get involved and sign up as a Team Captain or donate to support your favorite social justice fashionista!

  • Can you find 4 (or more) of your friends who would each be willing to raise $100 for SYPP? Your team goal is $500!
  • Do you have a love for youth organizing and SYPP’s Education Justice Campaign?
  • Do you love dressing up and being silly?

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Panel Discussion: Schools-to-Prison Pipeline

League of Education Voters and Our American Generation are hosting a panel in Kent, WA to discuss the rise of prisons, the rise of school discipline and how communities can challenge this!


Thursday, September 22 from 7 – 9 pm


Kent Senior Center
600 East Smith Street
Kent, WA 98030


The event is FREE, please register HERE


This panel will feature speakers from Seattle Young People’s Project, TeamChild, Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic at UW Law and Kent School District Alliance for Diversity and Equity


DIRECTIONS:

From I-5 South: Take exit 154A on the left to merge onto I-405 N toward Renton Take exit 2 to merge onto WA-167 S toward Auburn Take the 84th Ave S/N Central Ave exit toward Kent City Center Turn left onto 84th Ave S Continue onto Central Ave N Turn left onto E Smith St Destination will be on the right From I-5 North: Take exit 149A for WA-516 E toward Kent Turn right onto WA-516 E/S Kent Des Moines Rd Continue to follow WA-516 E Turn left onto Central Ave S Turn right onto E Smith St Destination will be on the right


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2010 Bowl-a-Thon is a Success!

Thanks to our wonderful team captains, bowlers, donors, and youth organizers, the 2010 Bowl-a-thon was a fun, rousing success. We are just hundreds away from our $15,000 goal, and with last-minute help we will surpass it. Now, we rest for a few weeks, and return in 2011 with a new campaign for racial and social justi…ce in school discipline! While we needed help from your wallets this time, in a few months we’ll need you in the streets with us! Thank You from SYPP! http://bit.ly/syppbowl



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Youth Organizing Institute 2010!

What is the YO?

Are you a youth between the ages of 13-18? Are you tired of seeing injustices all around you? Fed up with being mistreated because of your ages, race, sexuality, and/or gender? Interested in getting your voices heard? Well, come to the YO! and learn about youth organizing and social change! The YO! is an 8 day social justice training camp for and by youth. Learn about undoing oppression and how to be an effective organizer and leader in your community. The doors are open to all youth.


When and where is it?

The YO! Institute is 8 days: August 18-25th, from 10am-4pm each day. Bus tokens will be provided. The location will be in Seattle, and will be announced when we send you your confirmation.


What will I learn about? What workshops will I see?

  • Undoing Oppression
  • Revolutionary Art
  • Youth Organizing 101
  • The Personal is Political
  • How to Resist!
  • Real World Survival
  • Educate 2 Liberate
  • Media Skills


Get paid to make change?

Youth participants of the YO! will get a small check for attending ALL of the days of the YO! YO! graduates can then choose to stick around as active youth organizers at SYPP.


How do I get involved?

Fill-out an application and get it to us by July 23rd. We’ll confirm applicants by July 31st.

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