YOUNG INVINCIBLES

Our workforce and finances program encompasses a broad range of issues including workforce skills, financial security, job quality, and entrepreneurship. Nationally, the program has focused on research projects to understand the unique economic challenges facing the millennial generation. On the state level, we have led a series of focus groups and listening sessions with young people primarily from underrepresented communities to share the barriers they face to achieving quality jobs. These conversations have informed our research agenda, and efforts to advance reforms in policy and practice with a particular focus on apprenticeship.

For more than fifteen years, yi has built a hybrid approach to engagement and organizing; one that blends deep leadership training and personal growth experiences with broader grassroots advocacy activities. Our relationships with young people are authentic, meaningful, and rich, and that translates into a powerful foundation for building personal power and agency. The young advocates program is a paid leadership program developed by young invincibles currently running in colorado, california, illinois, new york, and texas. Young advocates work with our teams to strengthen the voices of young people across our issue areas. This includes overseeing on-the-ground and digital organizing, such as planning state and local events, including virtual events, to educate and facilitate discussions on pressing issues affecting their generation. They have the opportunity to work with our policy team to research and propose solutions to some of these challenges and to work with our communications team to amplify their stories and messages.