DYOP Phase 1
Cohort Member Orgs
482Forward
Detroit Action
Detroit Area Youth
Uniting Michigan (DAYUM)
Detroit Heals Detroit
Detroit Hispanic Development
Corporation
Eastside Community Network
Michigan Student
Power Alliance
MIStudentsDream
Student Advocacy
Center
Urban Neighborhood
Initiatives
About DYOP
Detroit Youth Organizing for Power (DYOP) is a multi-year grantmaking and capacity-building initiative designed to strengthen youth-led and intergenerational organizing in Southeast Michigan.Rooted in Detroit’s legacy of activism, DYOP fosters collaboration, builds collective power, and supports organizations in driving systemic change. Through shared learning, strategic alignment, and sustained funding, DYOP empowers young leaders to transform their communities and realize their freedom dreams.
Meet Our
Leadership Body!
The DYOP Leadership Body is a cross-community grouping of stakeholders in Detroit’s youth organizing field that came together to build alignment around a shared vision for a stronger, more powerful field and collectively develop a strategy to see through this vision.Over several iterations of this group, the project is the collective creation of a broad community, including a Grantmaking Strategy Working Group composed of local leaders from the youth organizing field and a Pooled Fund supported by local and national institutional funders committed to resourcing the project.
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Akua Hill | Gilbert Family Foundation |
| Lindsey Matson | 482Forward |
| Eva Oleita | Skillman Foundation's President’s Youth Council |
| Wallyaldeen Alhomaidi | Skillman Foundation's President’s Youth Council |
| Sam Turner | Kresge Foundation |
| Mark Greer | Phila Engaged Giving |
| Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza | Midwest Academy |
| Eric Zachary | Midwest Academy |
| Julia Cuneo | DAYUM |
| Kel Kroehle | Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) |
| Carmen Kennedy-Rogers | Skillman Foundation |
| Frances Vicioso | DYOP Project Manager |
Meet Frances
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