2017-03-15T17:28:35-05:00 2016-07-31 954557617 Harrington Group CPAs LLP 234 East Colorado Blvd Suite M150 Pasadena CA 91101 990 2015-08-01 912134499 Youth Speaks Inc YOUT 4152559035 1663 Mission Street No 604 San Francisco CA 94103 Paula S Arrigoni Officer 4152559035 2017-03-15 1 Sean E Cain CPA P01612986 6264036801 2015 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z James Kass 1663 Mission Street No 604 San Francisco CA 94103 3652745 0 X www.youthspeaks.org X 1996 CA Youth Speaks creates safe spaces to empower the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies. We challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change. Ultimately, we hope to shift the perceptions of youth by combating illiteracy, alienation, and silence, creating a global movement of brave new voices bringing the noise from the margins to the core. Since 1996, Youth Speaks has championed a localized, national, and increasingly global movement of young people boldly declaring themselves present. 12 12 34 100 0 0 6681127 3339805 279978 275789 0 0 12746 37151 6973851 3652745 699085 669875 0 0 1969685 2253933 0 0 280724 4790902 2155885 7459672 5079693 -485821 -1426948 6269735 3411330 557191 111973 5712544 3299357 X Youth Speaks creates safe spaces that empower the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacy's. We challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of societal change. Our vision is to shift the perception of youth by combating illiteracy, alienation, and silence, creating a nation of brave new voices bringing the notice from the margins to the core. 0 1 3185112 669875 181022 National & Field Building Programs - (1) Brave New Voices -- Youth Speaks first founded the Brave New Voices (or "BNV")Festival as the National Youth Poetry Slam in 1998, after the success of the local work in the Bay Area. The first slam had four teams; we now have 50 competing teams and five to ten non-competing teams. Brave New Voices is about bringing together young poets from across the globe so that they can create new pathways toward artistic growth, civic engagment, and youth development. BNV takes place in different cities and serves up to 200,000 clients per year. Beginning in FY14, the program was expanded to include the BNV Network Initiative, a comprehenisve multi-year initiative to support programs and organizations in the field of arts education and youth development through grants, consulting services, fellowships, and other resources, from within the existing BNV Network and beyond, to become stronger, more sustainable, and more impactful. (2) The Bigger Picture is a collaboration between Youth Speaks, and the University of California, San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations designed to combat the rising epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes by empowering youth to change the conversation about the disease, and work to change the social, cultural and environmental factors that have led to its spread, in the Bay Area and throughout California. We aim to inspire young people to challenge and name the institutional, environmental and social causes of Type 2 Diabetes. It is our hope that by raising their voice, taking action and joining the conversation they will inevitably alter the trajectory of the disease, and provide youth with a virtual platform, and real life performance opportunities for their stories to be heard. (3) Life Is Living is a collaborative community-based project that tests ideas about engaging youth, presenting public art, fostering literacy and storytelling, developing arts audiences, establishing non-traditional partnerships, transforming the environmental justice movement, and catalyzing community-building. Youth Speaks also piloted a number of new national programs in FY14, including the Raise Up Project to address the high school drop-out crisis, in close collaboration with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the I Want to Live program to improve the social and emotional health of youth by supporting a video and digital dialogue project designed to dispel stereotypes and create positive perceptions of young people and youth culture, particularly young men of color. Youth Speaks also launched a new multi-year collaborative program called the National Youth Poet Laureate program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in FY 2016. This is the first program of its kind that creates a national platform for youth poets to write, perform, learn and collaborate as regional and national representatives. 890706 68225 Bay Area Programs - Every time a thought is put into words, it is a creative act (thus the term, language arts). The same way a student recognizes and is able to practice visual arts by learning images, drawing, painting, and/or sculpting, a person's language skills expand the more s/he communicates ideas, problems, feelings, and solutions. Our local programming sits at the core of Youth Speaks. Programs such as our After School Workshops, In-School Residencies, Under 21 Open Mic, Bringing the Noise for Martin Luther King Jr., Teen Poetry Slam, Unified District Poetry Slam, Oakland Poet Laureate, Queeriosity and MC Olympics, fully embody our unique pedagogy which combines arts education, youth development, performance and civic engagement. We believe that our strength as a national leader is intrinsically connected to the depth and excellence of our core local programs and pedagogy. Youth Speaks is also actively creating professional development training opportunities and pathways as part of Bay Area Programs. We developed the First Sound Institute in collaboration with the University of San Francisco School of Education, to bring together artists and secondary educators from across the Bay Area and beyond to provide insight into our pedagogy,philosophical underpinnings of our youth development and arts development practices. In addition we launched a poet mentor fellowship and apprenticeship program. 243699 26542 Theatre Program - Youth Speaks' Theater Program is committed to producing literary performance in the verse of our time. Aesthetically urban, pedagogically Freirean, our Theater program derives personal performed narratives out of interdisciplinary collaboration. Though its methodology includes dance, music, and film, the company's emphasis is spoken storytelling. We support the creation of verse-based work that is spoken through the body, illustrated by visual and sonic scores, and in communication with the important social issues and movements of the immediate moment. Youth Speaks' Theater Program is also centrally focused on supporting the next generation of theater artists, technical personnel and leaders, including writers, directors, performers and producers, through the Emerging Artists Fellowship. Emerging Artists Fellows are alumni of Youth Speaks' youth programs and the Brave New Voices Network. 4319517 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 135 0 1 34 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 CA X X Youth Speaks Inc- Paula Smith Arrigoni 4152559035 1663 Mission Street 604 San Francisco CA 94103 James Kass Executive Director 40.00 X X 144370 0 17031 Niles Xi'an Lichtenstein Vice Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Laura Brief Interim Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Robert Joseph Secretary 5.00 X 0 0 0 Bonnie Ng Treasurer 5.00 X 0 0 0 Andre'-Jean Lundkquist Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Ann Marie Burgoyne Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Derick McGee Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Jen Lou Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Joyce Gagnon Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Michele Lee Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Sarah R Nichols Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Tony Rodriguez Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Dror Bar Ziv Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Wil Tidman Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Paula Smith Arrigoni Chief Operating Officer 40.00 X 109798 0 15675 254168 0 32706 2 0 1 0 XQ Institute 248 3rd Street Suite 319 Oakland CA 94607 Fiscally sponsored entity 986239 The George Washington University GW Housing Division of Student Aff Washington DC 20052 University housing services for programm 246498 2 334315 3005490 3339805 Admissions & Registrat 900099 183372 183372 Contracted Fees 900099 92417 92417 275789 Miscellaneous 900099 37151 37151 37151 3652745 275789 0 37151 623932 623932 45943 45943 310038 239287 45111 25640 1566648 1209139 227947 129562 195685 151030 22887 21768 27418 21162 3318 2938 154144 118976 18651 16517 745 248 497 51282 39580 6205 5497 470213 411793 54109 4311 68271 61444 6827 138986 102189 8818 27979 271938 269218 1443 1277 368792 344926 12657 11209 338266 301056 33827 3383 280 280 18061 18061 32890 25385 3981 3524 Hospitality 159726 123276 19327 17123 Program Production Cost 116463 116463 Artist & Performers 94198 94198 Fees and taxes 19272 14874 2333 2065 6502 5398 1104 5079693 4319517 479452 280724 1518874 786921 450870 431350 4142526 2096576 73450 44791 22622 79420 37986 51135 41434 10258 10258 6269735 3411330 545631 111973 11560 557191 111973 X 468355 29611 5244189 3269746 5712544 3299357 6269735 3411330 X -1426948 -986239 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 1493714 1537198 8274102 6681127 3339805 21325946 1493714 1537198 8274102 6681127 3339805 21325946 2078796 19247150 1884 26338 59553 12746 37151 137672 21463618 1920848 0.89670 0.95560 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 17759 13041 4718 61661 24945 36716 41434 X 3962059 309314 309314 3652745 0 3652745 5389007 309314 309314 5079693 0 5079693 Part X, Line 2: Youth Speaks is exempt from taxation under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701(d). Generally accepted accounting principles provide accounting and disclosure guidance about positions taken by an organization in its tax returns that might be uncertain. Management has considered its tax positions and believes that all of the positions taken by Youth Speaks in their federal and state exempt organization tax returns are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination. Youth Speaks' returns are subject to examination by federal and state taxing authorities, generally for three and four years, respectively, after they are filed. 0 First Peoples Fund 706 West Blvd Rapid City SD 57701 820583682 501 (c)3 12419 General operating support First Peoples Fund 706 West Blvd Rapid City SD 57701 820583682 501 (c)3 12500 10000 FMV Training & Technical Assistance services & products Training & Technical Assistance Forward Arts Inc 100 LaFayette St Ste B227 Baton Rouge LA 70801 453709820 501 (c)3 2500 General operating support Forward Arts Inc 100 LaFayette St Ste B227 Baton Rouge LA 70801 453709820 501 (c)3 12500 10000 FMV Training & Technical Assistance services & products Training & Technical Assistance Get Lit - Words Unite 672 S LaFayette Park Pl Ste 30 Los Angeles CA 90057 264644018 501 (c)3 25000 General operating support Get Lit - Words Unite 672 S LaFayette Park Pl Ste 30 Los Angeles CA 90057 264644018 501 (c)3 15000 10000 FMV Training & Technical 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(c)3 2500 Youth Advisory Board programmatic grant With Our Words Inc 657 Pacific Ave Ste 301 Stockton CA 95207 201545963 501 (c)3 10000 Youth Advisory Board programmatic grant Teens With a Purpose 1208 Mills Stream Way Chesapeake VA 23320 331207585 501 (c)3 8000 I Want to Live programmatic grant Scholarships 45943 Valued cost Classes are provided to various students at cost Form 990, Schedule I, non-cash assistance Youth Speaks non-cash assistance is provided by way of services, travel, lodging and professional development expenses related to the Brave New Voices Network Initiatives and is not captured in lines 1 & 2 of Part IX of the Form 990. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 James Kass Executive Director 144370 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17031 0 161401 0 0 0 James Kass Executive Director Short-term Bridge Loan X 22622 0 0 1 1 Form 990, Part III, line 3 The Off/Page Project was discontinued in 2016. The Off/Page Project combines the groundbreaking storytelling of Youth Speaks with the analytical lens of The Center for Investigative Reporting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 Staff provides an electronic copy of the Form 990 to all members of its governing body to solicit comments and feedback as well as a final copy, prior to submission to the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The Executive Director's compenation is reviewed annually by the Board of Directors. In addition, key staff monitor comparable compensation data to ensure that Youth Speaks' compensation is fair and appropriate. Other key employees are reviewed annually by Youth Speaks' senior management. Staff are evaluated in the beginning and end of each fiscal year to determine possible compensation increases, as available resources are available and budgeted for. Staff compensation increases take into account merit, COLA, and nonprofit comparability data. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The organization's financial information is available to the public by request and through various online sources, including the California Cultural Data Project. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Fiscal sponsorship settlement -986,239.