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A new book funded in part by the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund examines the strategies, successes and challenges of several of these organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The book, Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth, takes a street-level look at the heroic work of advocacy groups, including the remarkable achievements of three of the Fund’s grantees: Coleman Advocates, Oakland Community Organizing and the San Francisco Organizing Project. Authors Milbrey W. McLaughlin, W. Richard Scott and their colleagues at Stanford University document how these and other organizations straddle the line between social movements and political establishments. They play an essential role in civil society keeping communities and policymakers focused on how to improve the chances that our young people can succeed.
The book is an important reminder that the work of social change is happening every day in our neighborhoods and on the streets around us. The Fund's Vice President of Programs, Sylvia Yee, called the book "a notable theoretical and policy contribution about street-level advocacy and how these organizations advance reform agendas that benefit youth."
The book is available from Stanford University Press.
