American Legion Auxiliary Girls State

Girls State educates youth about the basic ideals and principles of government to help ensure the survival of democracy.

American Legion Boys State

Boys State provides youth with training in practical citizenship and the operation of government.

America’s Legislators Back to School Program

Sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the America’s Legislators Back to School Program is designed to teach young people what it’s like to be a state legislator: the processes, the pressures, and the debate, negotiation and compromise that are the fabric of representative democracy.

ASPIRE

The ASPIRE Youth Leadership Program (YLP) is a year-long leadership program specifically tailored to the cultural and developmental needs of Asian American high school girls in the greater Boston area.

Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Youth

The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Youth is a youth-led, adult-supported organization that creates, sustains, and advocates for programs, policies and services for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth community.

Boston Center for Community and Justice

The Boston Center for Community and Justice is dedicated to advancing social justice in Greater Boston. It encourages people of all ages to participate in their communities and promotes inclusion and equality.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America

The Boys and Girls Clubs of America seek to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Center for Teen Empowerment

The Center for Teen Empowerment empowers youth and adults as agents of positive individual, institutional, and social change.

The City School-Boston

The City School is a center for civic education that develops leaders for long-term action on social issues.

City Year Boston

City Year is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping to build a strong democracy through three essential – and interconnected – civic strategies: citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship, which serve as the civic foundation for a strong, active and responsive democracy. 

Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth

CAPAY aims to improve race relations, support youth-led activism in schools and communities, and provide leadership training to Asian Pacific American (APA) youth.

Easter Seals Youth Leadership Program

The Easter Seals Youth Leadership Program provides opportunities for young people with disabilities by developing their abilities and expanding the possibilities they see for themselves.

Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts

Leadership development for girls and community service are a focus of this organization.

Girls Inc.

The mission of Girls Inc. is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold by meeting the needs of girls in the community, developing girls’ capacity to overcome the effects of discrimination and be self-sufficient, responsible members of the community, and by serving as a vigorous advocate for all girls.

Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership

Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership seeks to motivate and empower individuals to make a positive difference within the global society through understanding and action based on effective and compassionate leadership.

Interfaith Action's Youth Leadership Program

The Youth Leadership Program strives to nurture interfaith understanding, while reducing prejudice and misunderstanding. 

Leadership in Action, EnVision Leadership Inc.

Designed to empower participants as community organizers and leaders.

Massachusetts State Student Advisory Council

The Massachusetts State Student Advisory Council provides an opportunity for students to have a say in decisions made about their education. America’s democratic system is rooted in the belief that all citizens who are affected by the system have a voice. The SSAC communicates student views to those who make decisions about education. 

Massachusetts Student Government Day

Massachusetts Student Government Day encourages students to learn about the structure of state government, become active citizens, and develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities that we share in a democracy.

Massachusetts YMCA Youth and Government

The YMCA Youth & Government motto is “Democracy must be learned by each generation.” Every person can make a difference. Youth & Government helps participants learn how.  Youth & Government focuses on: the core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, civic engagement, and fun.

National Student/Parent Mock Election

The National Student/Parent Mock Election makes students and parents aware of the power of their ballot by actively involving them in a full-fledged campaign and national election. The National Student/Parent Mock Election is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

¿Oíste?

¿Oíste’s? mission is to promote the principles and practice of democracy and to advance the political, social and economic standing of Latinos and Latinas in the state. The organization seeks to reach these goals by impacting public policy through public education, civic and issue trainings, electoral reform and voter mobilization.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities

Partners for Youth with Disabilities seeks to empower young people with disabilities to reach their full potential for personal development.

Project Adventure - Youth Leadership Institute

The Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) at Project Adventure promotes the empowerment of youth through innovative programming. YLI's experiential group process provides opportunities for youth to explore their value, encourage their discoveries, build their skills, and create supportive relationships.

Project HIP-HOP (ACLU)

Through the study of hip hop culture and the history of social movements, Project HIP-HOP engages young people in a process of critically analyzing the past and present so they can take action to make a better future. 

Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps

The Children’s Action Corps seeks to improve the lives of children and families and to make a lasting contribution to society.

Social Capital of Dorchester

SCI Dorchester is an initiative to build social capital and civic engagement in Dorchester, focusing on the Fields Corner and Codman Square neighborhoods.

Social Capital of Woburn

Social Capital’s mission is to build social capital and increase civic engagement.

State House Summer Junior Volunteer Tour Guide Program

The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth and the State House Tours Division sponsor the Summer Junior Volunteer Tour Guide Program to encourage young people to learn about Massachusetts history and government and welcome visitors to Massachusetts as a State House tour guide. 

We the People: Project Citizen

We the People: ProjectCitizen is a curricular program for middle, secondary, and post-secondary students, youth organizations, and adult groups that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government. The program helps participants learn how to monitor and influence public policy. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy.

Worcester Youth Center

The Worcester Youth Center provides a place where young people can build lasting, positive change in their lives. It accomplishes this mission by seeking resources, collaborations and opportunities that help young people to realize their full potential, sharpen skills, and enable them to become vital, responsible and contributing members of society. It supports activities for social justice and contributes efforts to create change in the community, which will benefit everyone.

Young Sisters for Justice in Philanthropy

YSFJP aims to build awareness of social change, work, and philanthropy among young people; cultivate new and younger donors; and create a youth-led organizing effort. 

Youth on Board

Youth on Board helps young people and adults think differently about each other so that they can work together to change society.  Youth on Board envisions a world where young people are fully respected and treated as valued and active members of their families, communities, and society.