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The Colorado Trust partnered with researchers from the Research Hub for Youth Organizing at the University of Colorado Boulder to produce a suite of resources highlighting best practices for digital organizing. These resources, available for download, are intended to be easily accessible and provide guidance for digital organizing efforts.

During spring 2022 youth activists and scholars from around the world convened virtually to explore their shared interests in social justice and political change. Panelists discussed strategies and lessons learned from youth-led social movements for democracy, peace, and human rights…

The Research Hub collaborates closely with youth organizing groups and network and provides relevant and timely research to help them deepen and advance their work. This area of work launched in September 2016. Graduate student Tafadzwa Tivaringe and Research Associate Siomara Valladares joined co-Principal Investigator Ben Kirshner in exploring the...

The Schools of Opportunity Recognition Program recognizes public high schools around the nation that are creating remarkable opportunities to learn for all their students. The Schools of Opportunity project arises out of the reality that existing recognitions strongly favor schools that enroll students who, outside of school, have the richest...

CU Boulder’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC) and Center for Community-Based Learning and Research (CU Engage) have received funding from the Ford Foundation to launch a research hub that will contribute relevant and timely research about education policy issues. Flipping historical paradigms of university-based research, the goal of the research...