The Youth Organizing Institute
Dedicated to Empowering the Lives and Experiences of Young People
Goal: $5,000 Raised: $700 This summer is our NINTH YEAR of YOI Summer Freedom Schools! We’ve built deep roots with Raleigh Freedom School and three years ago we expanded to include Durham. By popular demand, this summer is our BIGGEST year yet with two more programs in Chapel Hill and Greensboro. By opening Freedom School to four cities […]
Dear House Select Committee on School Safety and the NC General Assembly: We the undersigned are students, parents, teachers, community members, and organizers concerned with the state of schools when it comes to questions of violence and safety. We call upon this committee as well as the entire NC General Assembly to fully consider what school […]
On February 14, 2018, one of the largest school shootings in the US occurred in Florida, leaving 17 High School students and teachers dead at the hands of a 19 year-old white male shooter. We mourn for the lives lost, we hold the community of Parkland, Fl in our thoughts, and we stand in solidarity […]