April 3, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Future 500, edited by Jee Kim, Mathilda de Dios, Pablo Caraballo, Manuela Arciniegas, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, and Kofi Taha, provides descriptions of youth groups engaged in organizing and activism. The profiles were compiled by the Active Element Foundation, a New York nonprofit organization that provides grants, advice, and opportunities for youth organizers to connect with donors and each other. To help youths develop strategies for grass-roots organizing, the book provides contact information and mission statements of youth organizations across the country. The guide also contains a list of foundations that have supported youth-organizing groups. Information gathered in compiling the book suggests that many such groups want training in how to raise money more effectively, and shows that the majority of them operate on annual budgets of $25,000 or less. A related Web page, http://www.future500.com, offers a searchable database of the organizations in the book and will soon include a more extensive list.
Publisher: New Mouth from the Dirty South, P.O. Box 19742, New Orleans, La. 70179; http://www.newmouthfromthedirtysouth.com; 224 pages; $12.
