Welcome our newest staffers to the Alliance fam!

We have some exciting news, the Alliance family is growing! We are so lucky to announce the newest members to the Alliance staff, otherwise known as M³! Check them out. Malaya Davis   Associate Communications Director Malaya is from Cleveland, OH and is a founding member of the Ohio Student Association! She got her start […]

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Check out the newest additions to our board

We are so blown away by the brilliant people who have joined our network in the last few weeks, including some amazing new Alliance Board Members. Check them out! Alliance for Youth Organizing Board Whitney Porter Operations & Finance Consultant Whitney Porter brings a wealth of operations, finance, event planning, and strategic thinking to the […]

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Announcing Our Newest Affiliate, Minnesota Youth Collective!

At the Alliance, we believe in building powerful youth organizing homes that are explicitly locally-led and youth-led. Which is why we are beyond excited to announce… Our board of directors just formally approved a new Alliance Affiliate and home for young organizers and activists in the Twin Cities – Minnesota Youth Collective! Young people are […]

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Field So Hard

Can you believe it’s already June? Summer is in full swing and so is our network. We’ve got some BIG updates and wins from across the country that we’re honored to uplift this week:  As part of the Ohio Organizing Collective, Alliance affiliate Ohio Student Association, is supporting a ballot initiative that will reclassify drug […]

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Dawn of a New Day

We are just days away from the 2018 Alliance Network Conference where we’re bringing together 24 of the best youth-led and centered grassroots organizing groups who are driving young people electoral engagement efforts this fall. We’ll be covering team management, operations and compliance, organizing electoral campaigns, fundraising, addressing anti-oppression internally and externally for our organizations, […]

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Now Hiring: Program Director

Program Director Job Description The next Program Director at the Alliance for Youth Action (along with our sister 501c3 organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing) will lead programmatic efforts of the premier youth organizing network in the country. This person will work with a national staff of seven talented, fierce individuals dedicated to supporting and […]

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Welcome to the network, LIT!

What a week! Our entire team is in awe of the incredible work and the result in Alabama. The turnout of young people and black voters, specifically black women, puts front and center the founding principle of the Alliance’s theory of change — when people from/in their local communities lead, organize and make their collective […]

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We stand with our undocumented peers

August 30, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nation’s largest network of youth-led grassroots organizing groups denounces any efforts to end DACA program Groups take action to support undocumented peers and commit to holding electeds accountable in 2017 and 2018 Washington, DC – The Alliance for Youth Action, the largest network of youth-led grassroots organizing groups in […]

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New Automatic Voter Registration + Millennial Voter Report

You already know how much the Alliance loves automatic voter registration (aka AVR, fyi). Ever since the Oregon Bus Project (now Next Up) started working on Automatic Voter Registration (aka AVR, fyi) back in 2009 – and especially since they led a coalition to pass it in 2015 – we’ve been crowing about how huge […]

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