New York City’s Youth Civic Hub

What is the Youth Civic Hub?
The digital Youth Civic Hub will share, for the first time in New York City, a one-stop clearinghouse of civic programming, opportunities, and resources, and an updatable calendar of civic events and opportunities. This Hub will activate a broad range of young people in New York City, with a particular emphasis on those from historically marginalized communities, by helping them, their families, and their teachers identify and engage with high-quality civic opportunities that align with their interests.
Where are we at in the development process?
Thanks to the hard work of our Youth Civic Hub Working Group, we’ve concluded our ideation and research phases and are now bringing a prototype of the Hub to life for user testing in the Fall of 2023. You can read about our vision, goals, and timeline for the hub in these slides.
At the heart of this work is equipping New York’s young people to be informed and engaged civic actors. We aim to launch the full Hub in the Spring of 2024 with the support of local youth organizing groups, placing this resource directly into the hands of the NYC youth who need it.
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What will be on the Hub?
Our team of student engineers is working in WordPress to build the five central features of the Hub:
- NYC Elections Portal: This page will feature up-to-date information about NYC local elections, candidate scorecards focused on young people’s high priority issues, voter registration links and deadlines, and poll worker information.
- Civic Opportunities and Events Portal: Internships, jobs, volunteer opportunities, training, and events aimed at youth in one central location. We hope to establish a pipeline in which young people get and stay involved in civics, political life, and advocacy work–and organize peers and family members to do so as well.
- NYC Power Map: A who’s who of elected and appointed officials–in youth friendly terms. We’ll synthesize the responsibilities of each role, the current office holder, their term length, and their contact information alongside handy guides and templates about how to effectively communicate needs to municipal officials.
- Dynamic Directory: A vetted list of community organizations, services, and partners doing work around NYC for racial, criminal, economic, gender, immigration, and mental and physical health justice. This directory will be searchable based on location and issue area so that youth can find organizations in their communities doing impactful work.
- Civic Glossary: A library of terms related to civic and political life in NYC to explain the complex connections between systems of power in our city in language accessible to young people–and all people.
This Hub will credentialize civic learning, ensuring young New Yorkers receive recognition for what they’ve achieved and set them on a trajectory for lifelong civic learning and participation. NYC Civic Coalition members will identify the civic competencies their programs are developing and their process for assessing these skills. They will then map these competencies and the work of existing organizations to the requirements of the NYS Seal of Civic Readiness and to national standards for democracy education found in the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap. This will allow schools and community organizations to work together more effectively and graduate more students with the Seal of Civic Readiness.
Meet our Youth Working Group












Want to know more about the Hub or get involved in its development? Email Sanda at [email protected]
This work is supported by the Charles H. Revson Foundation through the NYC Civic Coalition that YVote co-leads alongside Do Something.