URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE

Name

URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE

Legal name

Urban Youth Collaborative

Website

https://urbanyouthcollaborative.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Advocacy and Education Justice Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dropout Prevention, Alternative Education & Re-Engagement Nonprofits (BPAGADAL), Youth Mentoring & Positive Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAD)

Keywords

• Youth advocacy coalition
• Education justice
• Policy reform advocacy
• Grassroots organizing
• School safety policy

Headquarters

HQ city

New York City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: The organization accepts donations through a donation portal on make the road NY's platform. Support options include volunteering time and making financial contributions to sustain the coalition's advocacy work.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Urban Youth Collaborative is a student-led coalition of three NYC youth organizations (Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York, and Sistas and Brothas United) that conducts grassroots organizing, policy research, and legislative advocacy to end the school-to-prison and deportation pipeline. Its core offerings are the Police Free Schools Campaign, Solutions Not Suspensions Act advocacy, Counseling Not Criminalization Act advocacy, and supporting research reports and educational resources distributed free to the public.

Product overview

Urban Youth Collaborative is a student-led advocacy coalition, not a technology product company. Its offerings consist of advocacy programs and educational resources focused on ending the school-to-prison pipeline in NYC. The core programs include the Police Free Schools Campaign, Solutions Not Suspensions Act advocacy, and Counseling Not Criminalization Act advocacy. Supporting these programs are research products including the Data Brief on Systemic Racism of School Policing, the Arrested Learning Survey Report, and educational materials including a Vision for Police Free Schools document. The coalition also offers an email newsletter for supporters. Together, these form a comprehensive advocacy ecosystem combining grassroots organizing, policy research, and public education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Police Free Schools Campaign Advocacy campaign demanding the removal of police from NYC public schools, backed by research showing racial disparities and the ineffectiveness of school policing for student safety. Targeted at NYC public school students, parents, educators, and policymakers.
• Solutions Not Suspensions Act Advocacy Advocacy program supporting New York State legislation (A.5197/S.7198) to end reliance on student suspensions and establish restorative approaches to discipline. For students, families, educators, and NY State legislators.
• Counseling Not Criminalization Act Advocacy Advocacy program supporting federal legislation to prohibit federal funds for school police and create a $5 billion grant program to invest in counselors, social workers, and trauma-informed services. Targeted at federal policymakers and education justice advocates.
• Data Brief: The Systemic Racism of School Policing Research data brief analyzing five years of school policing data in NYC public schools, documenting racial disparities in arrests, juvenile reports, court summonses, and child-in-crisis incidents. For policymakers, journalists, educators, and advocates.
• Arrested Learning Survey Report National survey report reaching 630 young people in Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, documenting students' experiences with police and security at school. Produced in collaboration with Latinos Unidos Siempre, Make the Road Nevada, and Make the Road New Jersey.
• Vision for Police Free Schools Document Policy vision document outlining the coalition's demands for transforming NYC public schools into nurturing and liberatory spaces without police presence. For policymakers, educators, advocates, and community members.
• Educational Materials and Teach-ins Educational resources for educators and community members on police-free schools, including teach-in videos and curricular materials for community education. Includes a May 2021 teach-in video distributed via Facebook.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90.9% of arrests, 89.7% of juvenile reports, 92.3% of court summonses involve Black and Latinx youth (who are 66.2% of student population)
• +3 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Future of Tomorrow (FOT) of Cypress Hills Local Development CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFOT is a youth organization led by students dedicated to improving education in the Cypress Hills and East New York neighborhoods in Brooklyn. FOT is one of three member organizations that form the UYC coalition, contributing youth leadership and community base in Brooklyn.
• Make the Road New York (MRNY)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMRNY builds power in marginalized communities across New York State. Its Youth Power Project empowers and organizes youth to achieve educational, racial, and immigrant justice. MRNY's Brooklyn and Staten Island chapters are part of UYC, providing organizing infrastructure and membership base.
• Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSBU is a youth-led organization in the Bronx that develops youth leadership to change conditions in schools, neighborhoods, and beyond. Founded in 1999, SBU has worked with Bronx youth to transform their lives, schools, and communities. SBU contributes youth leadership and Bronx community base to UYC.
• Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity-based organization that participated in the national 'Arrested Learning' survey of 630 young people, fielding in-depth surveys of youth membership alongside UYC and partner organizations.
• Make the Road Nevada (MRNV)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity-based organization that participated in the national 'Arrested Learning' survey, fielding surveys of Nevada youth membership as part of the four-state survey effort.
• Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity-based organization that participated in the national 'Arrested Learning' survey, fielding surveys of New Jersey youth membership as part of the four-state survey effort.
• Popular DemocracyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization that hosts and publishes the 'Arrested Learning' report on its website, providing platform and visibility for UYC's survey research on school policing.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Advancement Project: National racial justice organization with a dedicated education-justice practice that publishes research on school policing and supports local organizing. Operates at significantly larger scale than UYC but pursues overlapping policy goals.
• Children's Defense Fund: Long-established national child advocacy organization that works on school discipline, juvenile justice, and equity issues. Operates at much larger scale but addresses the same population and outcomes.
• National Center for Youth Law: National legal advocacy organization focused on youth justice, school discipline reform, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Pursues overlapping policy reforms through litigation and policy advocacy.

Direct peers

• Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility: NYC-based nonprofit that delivers restorative-justice programming and social-emotional learning in NYC public schools, directly aligned with UYC's demand to replace policing with restorative approaches.
• Make the Road New York: One of UYC's three founding member organizations and the host of UYC's donation portal. Operates as a standalone immigrant-justice and youth-power organization with overlapping education-justice work and identical NYC community base.
• Sistas and Brothas United: A founding UYC member organization running Bronx-based youth leadership programs since 1999. Comparable youth-led organizing approach and identical NYC target geography.
• Dignity in Schools Campaign: National coalition explicitly working to end the school-to-prison pipeline and push police out of schools. Closest direct analogue to UYC's Police Free Schools campaign and shares a youth-led, coalition-based organizing model.
• Black Lives Matter at School: National movement and yearly campaign week focused on racial justice in K-12 education, including demands to remove police from schools. Closely aligned advocacy framing and youth engagement model.

Regional players

• Citizens' Committee for Children of New York: NYC-based multi-issue child advocacy organization producing research and policy recommendations on issues including school discipline and youth justice. Operates in the same geography and engages similar policymakers.

Others

• Communities for Just Schools Fund: National fund that resourced grassroots organizing campaigns including school-police removal efforts. Comparable mission space and a likely peer funder rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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