Our Alliance
The Alliance for Youth Thriving is a collaborative space open to any alliance, coalition, network, campaign, organization, or field leader aligned with the goal of building community-wide, year-round learning ECOsystems for youth and young adults.
The Alliance includes Champions, National Partners, and the CYT Crew.
Tom Akiva
University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Tom Arnett
Christensen Institute
Mary Arnold
National 4-H Council
Emily Bader
Education Reimagined
Lauren Bierbaum
XQ Institute (consultant)
Michele Cahill
XQ Institute
Terri Ferinde
Collaborative Communications
Michelle Gambone
Youth Development Strategies, Inc.
Courtney Garcia
LearnerStudio
Ben Houltberg
Search Institute
Rob Jagers
Researcher & Field Strategist
Emily Liebtag
Education Reimagined
David Osher
Researcher & Field Strategist
Kathleen Osta
National Equity Project
Scott Palmer
EducationCounsel
Jane Quinn
Researcher & Field Strategist
Siobahn Reardon
Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
Gene Roehlkepartain
Search Institute
Kwesi Rollins
IEL/Coalition of Community Schools
Dara Rose
Horizons National
Champions are engaged in Alliance communications, convenings, and field-building projects such as the Youth Today Advisory Committee, Youth Development Practice & Pathways Consortium, Summer Learning Design Pilot and more.
Individuals from over 50 organizations are engaged as Alliance Champions including representatives from:
Afterschool Alliance * American Institutes for Research * Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time * Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions * ASU College for Teaching & Learning * Attendance Works * Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America * Big Picture Learning * Boys & Girls Clubs of America * California AfterSchool Network * Camp Fire * Campaign for Grade-Level Reading * Change Impact * Christensen Institute * City Year * Coalition for Community Schools * Collaborative Communications * Communities In Schools * Community School Learning Exchange * Community Schools Forward * CommunityShare * Cornell NY 4-H Cooperative Extension * The Corps Network * CUNY Youth Studies * Education Reimagined * EducationCounsel * EL Education * Every Hour Counts * Forum for Youth Investment/Weikart Center * Girls, Inc. * Harvard Graduate School of Education * Horizons National * Institute for Educational Leadership * LearnerStudio * Learning Agenda * MENTOR * Mizzen * National 4-H Council * National Afterschool Association * National Equity Project * National Summer Learning Association * Opportunity Youth Forum * Partnership for Student Success * Partnership for AfterSchool Education * Rock/Tree/Sky * Remake Learning * SoLD Alliance * Search Institute * Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools * UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent * University of Pittsburgh SOE * XQ Institute * YMCA of the USA * Youth Communications * Youth Development Strategies, Inc. * Youth-Nex * Youth Service America
