Streetcats does amazingly innovative things with very little funding.
They partner with other youth groups on both shared funding initiatives like their ONE HEART FOR KIDS and produce multi-organization radio psas and distribute them to radio stations across the country.
They have one of the first internet web sites, youthandchildren.net going back to 1995 (now 25 sites) delivering resources and free counseling to parents, children, youth and youth counselors. They pioneered the first and only national 12-step fellowship for teenagers recovering from alcohol and other drugs (Teen-Anon).
They produce the first and only national resource web sites for African-American, Latino and Asian-American youth.
For 7 years, they have produced and syndicated a weekly 30-minute Reaching Up radio show on satellite and shortwave plus overseas AMs and FMs about socvial justice, faith (interfaith) and the unmet needs in our society, particularly of children with guests like Caryl Stern CEO of US Fund for UNICEF and Dr. Wess Stafford, CEO-Emeritus of Compassion International.
And in 2014, they are putting together and gathering funding for CELEBRATE RADIO, a 24/7 full-time national satellite radio and web network expressly to unite people, in shared purpose to make society better and ignite purpose and passion.
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Mission: Streetcats was founded in 1991 to work one-on-one on the streets with runaways everyone else had given up on. It now successfully trains others to do the same. Its award-winning Youth and Children Net (www.child.net) and now 39 other sites (www.streetcats.org) is now the largest non-profit national/regional web resource for kids, teens, parents & youth workers and free referrals. Its National Children's Coalition and One Heart for Kids national initiatives are highly-regarded in fostering cooperation between youth groups. And its Kidsurfer Project and Interfaith Youth and Family Resource Network help link secular and faith-based youth organizations in local collaborations to more holistically help youth. It is 90% volunteer and unlike half of all non-profits, 82% of its limited revenue goes directly to helping youth.
Programs: Streetcats Youth and Children Net (www.child.net) helps children, youth, young adults, parents and educators findnational resources as well as local resources and activities for children in 28 cities. It has won 70 major awards, has more than 40 separate web sites and is used by more than one million people a year in the US, Canada and 48 othercountries. With a limited volunteer staff, SCF responds toover 6,000 phone, letter and email requests for information each year. Its Reaching Up! 30-minute weekly music and interview radio program for youth is now heard in 74 countries. Its One Heart for Kids national initiative educates the public about the unmet needs of children via radio psas and an annual 1-hour One Heart radio special and by networking with grassroots youth groups really making a difference but severely underfunded. Its national Teen-Anon 12-step fellowship is the only national fellowship designed specifically for addicted teenagers. . Its networking project, National Children's Coalition and its new youthcounseling.org web site, links 400 youth groups with information to better help them help children.Streetcats has been supported by pop singers Tori Amos and Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, AST Computer Research,Comfor-Pedic, Esprit, the SF 49ers, the San Francisco Foundation, Virgin Megastores, Motorola, Visioneer, US Robotics/3 Com and others. Streetcats total annual budget is under $50,000 a year.
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