The new Youth Activist Toolkit was developed with youth writers and activists to be a detailed guide to help young people develop a plan, organize a coalition, and define and implement strategies to achieve measurable social impact goals.

You can download the Toolkit for free, by filling out the short form on the right hand side ---->

The Toolkit will reach Advocates’ network of 75,000 young people, on 1,200 campuses throughout the country and serves as a social action companion to the new film “American Woman,” which made its worldwide premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. The film raises questions about power: who has it and who doesn’t, and how best to change that. The story’s center is a young pacifist who is wrestling with her choices as she joins a cohort of young radicals and their kidnapped convert. With accessible guides to power structures and how to build power — the resource is available for free for those who are spurred to action inspired by the film.

“I think a lot of ‘resources’ these days are out of touch, using academic language and talking about policy I can't understand,” said one of the Toolkit writers and a member Advocate for Youth’s International Youth Leadership Council, Madelynn Bovasso. “While writing the Toolkit, I just wanted it to be accessible, approachable and understanding of the hectic lives we live as young people.”