Youth Radio offers after-school journalism and production training programs free-of-charge to approximately 1,400 students per year while also providing academic tutoring, college-bound preparation, and leadership training. Since 1992, Youth Radio has trained thousands of teenagers in broadcast journalism, production, engineering and media advocacy and literacy. Using on-air DJ opportunities as a hook, the organization provides stable, long-term guidance for youth as they transition from school to college and into careers.

Youth Radio is currently operating out of cramped, outdated quarters that severely limit their plans, and believes that their potential for developing breadth and depth in programming can only be realized in an expanded and appropriate facility. Youth Radio was awarded a $10,000 planning grant from our San Francisco/Alameda Program (December 2003) to pay a portion of the pre-development costs to acquire permanent space. The organization was also awarded a $350,000 capital grant from our San Francisco/Alameda Program (September 2005) to support the acquisition of a new facility that will allow Youth Radio to create a state-of-the-art Downtown Digital Media Center, leveraging their existing resources and continuing to develop innovative youth programs to serve the increasing needs of their young people. Learn more about Youth Radio: http://www.youthradio.org/