Online social networking connects and empowers youth movements

Created in 1999, Movement Strategy Center actively supports movements that aim to increase youth and adult participation in social justice issues. Movement Strategy Center uses a variety of tools to achieve its objectives: collective visioning and mapping, formal and informal collaborations among organizations and joint strategies to develop stronger and more effective movements.

Challenge

Youth, youth activists and youth organizations needed a web portal to work together more effectively to address issues of racial, economic, environmental and social justice.

Project

ZeroDivide awarded $50,000 to Movement Strategy Center to create a web portal that:

• Unifies social justice communities
• Creates a centralized site that hold information on all aspects of social activism
• Employs social networking to allow multiple levels of connections among individual users, organizations and social justice movements

Results

Movement Strategy Center is finalizing development of mybloc.net, an online portal that introduces new and existing technology in user-friendly ways to help leaders and activists from around the country connect, engage and exchange information and ideas. The site is built on four key values: cultural relevance to youth and Hip Hop audiences, values driven, empowering young people and supporting face to face organizing.