Summary
Organization name
Youth on Record
other names
YOR, Flobots.org
2008
Tax id (EIN)
42-1724770
Category
Education
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
1301 W. 10th AveDenver, CO 80204
Denver County, CO, US
About
Our Impact
Funding their Future🌟
Your donation is an investment in the future of creativity!
This year, Youth on Record has committed over $115,000 to provide paid opportunities for young creatives.
Help us create economic opportunity for the next generation as they launch their careers in the arts.
Check out some recent program highlights!
- This year we offered a variety of paid opportunities for young creatives including: our paid Fellowship, Internship, and Podcasting Internship programs, performance opportunities at community events like Civic Center Eats and our annual Block Party, media coverage at community events, apprenticeship roles at the Underground Music Showcase and our Open Mic nights, and more!
- As the co-owners of the Underground Music Showcase, our team brings mission-aligned initiatives and Impact Days, a two-day artist conference, to the festival. Check out the 2023 Impact Report and stay tuned for a recap of our work at UMS 2024. Read about our Accessibility Initiative in the Colorado Sun.
- We recently hired a full-time Mental Health and Wellness Manager, combating the Youth Mental Health Crisis by offering supports to participants, referrals, and supporting a long-term strategy to further integrate mental health into all we do.
- We recently had our 10th annual Block Party, and you’ll definitely want to check out short features of several of the artists who performed here.
- Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray visited our studio, interviewed a few young creatives, and made a song with them. You can watch the video, produced by UCHealth, here.
- YOR's efforts supporting students in public schools to learn and perform music went viral earlier this year with nearly 750,000 views and 32,000 likes on Instagram! Check out students from Aurora Public School's Young Men of Color program perform Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones
- One of YOR's impactful podcast segments produced by podcast internship graduate Genevieve Glimp won a Gracie Award. You can listen to the winning piece starting at 10:38 here.
Mission
Youth on Record empowers Colorado's underserved youth to achieve their academic, artistic, and personal best by employing local, professional artists as their educators.
Background Statement
Youth on Record (YOR) was founded in 2008 by local musician community organizers Flobots, in an effort to increase access to meaningful mentorship opportunities, increase graduation rates, increase academic success, increase social/emotional learning skills, and increase access to high-quality economic opportunities for youth via anti-oppression music programming.
Through a model partnership that brings together the local music community, public schools, the nation's leading housing authority, and the philanthropic sector, Youth on Record (YOR) is a powerful example of what's possible when musicians and nonprofit/public sector leaders embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and band together around a common cause. Our Youth Media Studio (YMS), the anchor tenant in a Denver Housing Authority award-winning redevelopment effort, is critical to our increasingly holistic approach to uplifting our region's most vulnerable youth through access to music. This focus on leveraging the arts to inspire at-risk young people to re-engage in their education and graduate, while providing advanced job skills and opportunities in the creative industries, makes us one-of-a-kind.
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Organization Data
Denver, CO 80204