This letter was sent to the Vote16SF Campaign this week: The National Youth Rights Association strongly endorses the Vote16SF campaign to lower the voting age in San Francisco. We believe lowering the voting age will be good for young people, good for San Francisco and good for democracy as a whole. NYRA urges passage of…
National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) Summer & Fall 2016 Fellowship Program 3 openings Application deadline: February 29th, 2016 Download Fellowship Information in Word Founded in 1998, NYRA is a national non-profit dedicated to fighting for the civil rights and liberties of young people. Based in the Washington, DC area, the organization challenges age discrimination against…
The movement to lower the voting age is growing all over the world, and as always, the best place to go for research, arguments and updates about that movement is the NYRA website. The Voting Age Status Report has been updated to include new developments and new campaigns working on lowering the voting age. All…
NYRA Members elected a new Board of Directors. Congratulations to returning board members Jaylen Bledsoe, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure and Jeffrey Nadel, and welcome to new board members Jeff Buterbagh, Alexander Cohen, Amy O’Connel, Victoria Minerva RodrÃguez Roldán, and Brad White. The Board of Diectors elected new officers: Jaylen Bledsoe (President); Brad White (Vice President); Victoria Minerva…
A group of youth rights activists offered NYRA a matching grant, matching dollar-for-dollar individual donations that reached NYRA in December. They set a cap of $1,300, never imagining that NYRA’s members, most of them students, would be able to raise that much in just a few weeks. Well, guess what. NYRA’s membership maxed that mother…
In these tough times, NYRA, like many non-profits, faces economic challenges. We are tightening our belts, but with your help, we can keep fighting effectively for youth rights. To ensure that NYRA as you know it keeps running in 2013, we need you to step up and donate before December ends. You won’t be alone….
Tonight, less than 2 weeks after they were elected, NYRA’s new board of directors (BOD) held their first board meeting, and it was a smashing success. It included friendly discussion, healthy debate, and great results. Among other decisions, the new BOD chose a very promising selection of officers. Former President Jeffrey Nadel was the uncontested…
NYRA-members still have time to vote in this year’s Board of Directors election. The candidates this year include some of the most heralded heroes and heroines in NYRA history – front line organizers, successful fundraisers, outstanding volunteers, and two former NYRA presidents as well as the current one – along with some exciting up-and-comers. The…
Since fundraising is among the most important responsibilities a board of directors (BOD) has, many non-profits require each board member to raise or donate a minimum each year ($5,000 is a common minimum). NYRA has never set a minimum beyond that needed to maintain membership in the organization ($10/year or $150/lifetime). In our current board…
For years, I’ve been a proud NYRA-member, voting in every election. But only after I began working in NYRA’s office, first as Campaign Manager, then as Executive Director, did I see the qualities that make a good board member. I used to think it was important to elect candidates who shared my vision for the…
