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The Youth Organizing Institute is excited to host our 5TH ANNUAL ELLA BAKER FUNDRAISER! After the whirlwind we’ve had organizing in NC this year, we want this to be a chance to reconnect amongst community.

RVSP to the event on Facebook! 

There will be food, lots of dancing, and stunning youth performances. Music by DJ Gemynii! (Location: The Carrack!)

Join us if you’ve ever organized or volunteered with us, participated in Freedom School, or want to learn more and dance with us! We’ll be giving out awards to a youth activist, an adult ally, and a community group that have truly showed out this year. This will be an intergenerational space, prioritizing youth.

Tickets are sliding scale $1-100 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Donate here: http://bit.ly/ellabaker2017

Our annual Ella event is part of our year-end grassroots fundraising to support year-round work to dismantle the school to prison pipeline and kick cops out of schools. Our goal this year is to raise $2,000! Will you fight with us? Whether it’s $20 or $100, we need your support for transformative youth organizing in 2018!

This year, we launched one of our most ambitious efforts yet: a year-round leadership development Fellowship for high school students. The Young Organizers Fellowships builds upon our Freedom School curriculum to support young people in their next step towards organizing. The fellows will commit 100 hours over the next six months to learn skills to build their own campaigns. They’ll have the opportunity create real-time goals to mobilize in their communities, study different strategies to organize, and nurture collaborative relationships between youth. To support their efforts and trainings, donate today: http://bit.ly/ellabaker2017

If you’d rather be more hands-on with us, we also really appreciate non-monetary support and in-kind donations. Sign up for our newsletter and/or volunteer opportunites here, http://empoweryouthnc.org/sign-up-for-the-newsletter/.

If you have any questions or would like to perform (poetry, music, dance, etc!) at this event, please contact babette@empoweryouthnc.org

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