Clare Rose Foundation

Beginning in 2013, the movement towards national support and infrastructure for the long-standing field of Creative Youth Development (CYD) has emerged. After five years of explicit partnership between large institutions, the Creative Youth Development National Partnership is at a natural point of revision and taking stock.

 The Partnership has completed tremendous work in the last three years towards an aim of long-term sustainability. The field of CYD has matured in the United States through a participatory process and produced self-efficacious visions, goals, strategies, and structures for the field. In response, the Partnership must reify its objectives, structure, and decision-making capacities to reflect the progress made.

 It is the goal of the Clare Rose Foundation to ensure the stability of the Partnership and to enable the equitable participation of the best individual minds to contribute to the work, including young people. To this end, the Foundation has contracted with Jeff M. Poulin to conduct research and produce organizational modeling to aid this effort.

The goal of this project is to synthesize the extant documents created by the Creative Youth Development National Partnership related to the governance, operations, and strategy of the partnership and provide recommendations to drive decision-making within the partnership for its next phase.