Youth Radio
Youth Radio
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About this organization
Mission
YR Media equips emerging content creators between the ages of 14-24, primarily BIPOC, with an immersive media arts education, top industry mentors, paid career-track employment, and holistic support services, including counseling and healthy food. Young people leverage these offerings to become civically engaged citizens driving systemic change and disruptors that diversify the traditional media landscape by creating stories, art, and music that matter.
About
Media production company Youth Radio dba YR Media partners professional journalists with low-income youth to produce Peabody Award-winning journalism that reaches audiences in the tens of millions each year. Youth Radio distributes digital and broadcast content through outlets like the Huffington Post, National Geographic, New York Times, Teen Vogue, PBS, a range of local public radio stations, and NPR (YR is their official youth desk). Youth Radio runs several news desks to produce high-impact content on a range of issues including youth employment, juvenile justice, health, education, and science. Youth Radio's media assets have won more than 60 of journalism's most prestigious awards, including two George Foster Peabody Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards, Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award and recognition from the White House in 2012.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The non-profit's mission, as documented in the filing, is “See schedule o”.
When explaining its purpose, the activities were described as: “Youth radio dba yr media is an award-winning media production company that trains diverse young people in digital media and technology. partnering with industry professionals, students learn to produce marketable media for massive audiences while bringing youth perspectives to issues of public concern. through youth radio/yrmedia, young people find voice, seek truth, and lead. they transform their lives, their communities, and the national conversation. by bringing national scale to youth radio's proven model of youth engagement and media production training, yrmedia will dramatically expand opportunities for young people (especially low-income youth and youth of color) to find their voices, challenge conventional narratives, reach and influence significant audiences, and effect lasting change in their own lives and in their communities.”.
- The non-profit is legally allowed to operate in the state of CA, as reported.
- The filing provides the non-profit's address in 2019 as 1701 BROADWAY, OAKLAND, CA, 94612.
- The non-profit has a total of 259 employees, as reported on their form for 2019.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $1,005,788.
- The organization has 17 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1993.
- The organization pays $4,230,921 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $457,785 in fundraising expenses.