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YO! Receives Herb Levine Legacy Fund Grant July 26th, 2011
California Foundation for Independent Living Centers
PRESS RELEASE
Sacramento, CA – The Herb Levine Legacy Fund has announced its grant to the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers’ program YO! Disabled and Proud. This grant will support the YO! Disabled and Proud Volunteer Program by providing one youth stipend for one full year. In addition, this funding will support that volunteer to attend the YO! Disabled and Proud Youth Summit in September.
The Herb Levine Legacy Fund is designed to foster grassroots disability rights activism in California. Named after former Independent Living Resources Center San Francisco Executive Director, Herb Levine, the fund is working to foster grassroots projects that are in line with the mission of working to ensure that people with disabilities are full social and economic partners, both within their families and in a fully accessible community. Grant recipients.
YO! Disabled & Proud Connects, Educates and Organizes youth with disabilities, ages 16 to 28, by offering opportunities for youth with disabilities to build community with each other, develop a sense of history, leadership, a positive disability identity, as they organize and mobilize each other on issues that impact their lives. Our YO! Volunteer Corps supports over a dozen youth across California who have collectively volunteered over 2,000 hours in the last year.
This year, YO! will launch an anti-bully campaign at a Youth Summit on September 16th -18th at Sierra Health Foundations’ Grizzly Creek Ranch in Portola California. During the Summit, Youth with disabilities from across California will develop a plan to connect, organize and educate our communities about this issue through the development of videos and materials, story collection, training and outreach events.
Youth Organizing! Disabled and Proud is a program of the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, our mission is to support Independent Living Centers in their local communities through advocating for systems change and promoting access and integration for people with disabilities.
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PRESS RELEASE
Sacramento, CA – The Herb Levine Legacy Fund has announced its grant to the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers’ program YO! Disabled and Proud. This grant will support the YO! Disabled and Proud Volunteer Program by providing one youth stipend for one full year. In addition, this funding will support that volunteer to attend the YO! Disabled and Proud Youth Summit in September.
The Herb Levine Legacy Fund is designed to foster grassroots disability rights activism in California. Named after former Independent Living Resources Center San Francisco Executive Director, Herb Levine, the fund is working to foster grassroots projects that are in line with the mission of working to ensure that people with disabilities are full social and economic partners, both within their families and in a fully accessible community. Grant recipients.
YO! Disabled & Proud Connects, Educates and Organizes youth with disabilities, ages 16 to 28, by offering opportunities for youth with disabilities to build community with each other, develop a sense of history, leadership, a positive disability identity, as they organize and mobilize each other on issues that impact their lives. Our YO! Volunteer Corps supports over a dozen youth across California who have collectively volunteered over 2,000 hours in the last year.
This year, YO! will launch an anti-bully campaign at a Youth Summit on September 16th -18th at Sierra Health Foundations’ Grizzly Creek Ranch in Portola California. During the Summit, Youth with disabilities from across California will develop a plan to connect, organize and educate our communities about this issue through the development of videos and materials, story collection, training and outreach events.
Youth Organizing! Disabled and Proud is a program of the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, our mission is to support Independent Living Centers in their local communities through advocating for systems change and promoting access and integration for people with disabilities.
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