Co/Motion

Co/Motion is a national program that helps organizations build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. We do this by partnering with youth-led and youth-serving organizations, national service and service learning programs, schools and other national and community-based organizations, to provide training to young adults 15 to 25 in advocacy and organizing skills. Co/Motion also provides on-going support and technical assistance to help youth design projects to address community problems.

In 2005, Co/Motion folded into other parts of Alliance for Justice, closing out its grantee program and other main programmatic activities. In February 2006, AFJ worked with Social Dynamics, LLC, a social research and evaluation firm, to complete a retrospective qualitative evaluation of the Co/Motion program, which included several national campaigns to engage youth in civic activism for the prevention of gun violence. The full evaluation provides a comprehensive description of the Co/Motion program model, including grantmaking, training, special projects and campaigns; identifies best practices and challenges in implementing the model; and outlines recommendations for improving gun violence prevention advocacy and youth civic engagement programs.

What Co/Motion Did>>

Click here to view the Executive Summary.

Click here to view a copy of the full Co/Motion Evaluation Report.

Click here for the Best Practices brief, which describes some of the variations among the activities designed and implemented by AFJ to help its grantees facilitate change and raise public awareness of gun violence in American communities and explores the outcomes achieved by these organizations.