OUR STRATEGIC PLAN
Rise Up and Thrive: 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
We are at a pivotal moment, one filled with great opportunity and serious risk. Youth organizations, young people, and our communities face dire threats and attacks from the second Trump Regime and emboldened reactionary, fascist forces. At the same time, youth organizing has seen unprecedented growth over the past decade.
Rise Up and Thrive, YO! Cali’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, is a call to deepen youth and multigenerational power, resist regressive attacks, and boldly advance our shared vision. We invite you to join forces with YO! Cali and our network to make this vision real.
From January through July 2025, YO! Cali engaged its staff, board members, and more than fifty close partners from network organizations to create our five-year strategic plan. The plan also draws upon our Mapping Rivers to Oceans report, published May 2025 based on an assessment of the youth organizing landscape in California that gathered input and perspectives from organizing staff at 72 partner organizations.
With an eye towards our long-term, generational vision, the plan focuses on the strategic direction, context, opportunities, and priorities for YO! Cali from 2025 to 2030.
Strategic Plan Downloads
Five-Year Strategic Priorities and Goals Flowchart
Detailed Five-Year Strategic Priorities and Goals