February 5, 2025 — Today, the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund (RTYPF) announced $2.4 million in funding to support 18 youth and intergenerationally-led organizations working to create a safer and more equitable digital ecosystem. This is RTYPF’s second year of investing in the youth-led responsible technology movement, and its newest cohort arrives at a crucial moment, bringing innovative solutions and fresh perspectives to enhance the future of online safety. 2025 grantees will use grant funding to advance work across a variety of issues, including tech accountability, youth mental health, responsible AI, and technology-based climate solutions.  

The 2025 cohort includes young advocates responsible for raising awareness of the Kids Online Safety Act and censorship of women’s health ads and information on social media platforms, and four individuals recognized by Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for their work across social media and AI. In a first, the fund is led by an intergenerational steering committee that spearheads strategic planning, grantee selection and programming decisions. RTYPF’s Young Leader Advisors (YLA) are key decision-makers, differentiating this grantmaking approach as youth-led and youth-driven. 

“As a generation raised by technology, we believe that young people are essential to building a more responsible and humane technology future,” said YLA grantee Trisha Prabhu, Founder and President of ReThink Citizens, “We have a unique perspective shaped by growing up in a digital world – and that drives our commitment to creating a better, more responsible tech ecosystem for us, our peers, and future generations.” 

“We’re proud of RTYPF’s innovative model, which empowers young people to make meaningful decisions about grantee funding and support,” said Yoelle Gulko, Director of documentary film Our Subscription to Addiction, "This inter-generational approach not only unlocks new opportunities for grantees – it helps young people become leaders in the movement for a more ethical tech landscape.”

The fund’s grantees are receiving between $50,000 and $125,000 in one-year grants, which were allocated based on capacity and funding needs. The 18 organizations joining Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund’s second cohort are:

• AI Consensus (Young Leader Advisor grantee), is a student movement working to transform education through the responsible use of AI. Their mission is anchored in empowering students and engagement across stakeholders.

• Center for Intimacy Justice (renewal grantee) is a nonprofit changing tech platforms’ discriminatory suppression of women’s health information online. They lead investigations, legal actions, and multi-pronged media and advocacy strategies to change biased tech practices that censor women’s health.

• Cyber Collective’s Internet Street Smarts program (renewal grantee) is revolutionizing digital safety education through a culturally relevant, engaging approach that speaks directly to Gen Z and historically marginalized communities. 

• Decifer Studio (new grantee) is a research and design studio leveraging creative technology and storytelling to demystify the socio-political workings and impact of technology, for and with the public.

• Design It For Us (renewal grantee) is a youth-led coalition advocating for safer online platforms and social media. They aim to drive and achieve key policy reforms to protect kids, teens, and young adults online through the mobilization of youth activists, leaders, and voices. 

• Encode (renewal grantee) is a coalition of youth activists and change makers fighting for human rights, accountability, and justice in artificial intelligence. Harnessing a global network of volunteers from all over the United States and world, they champion informed AI policy and encourage youth to confront the challenges of the age of automation through political advocacy, community organizing, educational programming, and content creation.

• Generation Patient (Young Leader Advisor grantee) represents adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions across the United States and internationally. They focus on peer support, advocacy, and access to educational information and resources as fundamental pathways to empowerment.  

• #HalfTheStory (renewal grantee) is the pioneering non-profit on a mission to empower the next generation's relationship with technology through research, education, and advocacy. 

• Innovation For Everyone (new grantee) is building a youth-led AI ethics literacy movement by sparking nuanced conversations about AI from the classroom to the board room to equip the public, and especially youth, to think critically about the sociotechnical impacts of AI and their role in re-envisioning a more equitable and just digital world.

• The Los Altos Institution's (new grantee) mission is to give youth around the world the opportunity to conduct academic research, regardless of their socioeconomic status. They connect students to research professionals and fund their projects in order to help develop the thinkers of tomorrow.

• Our Subscription to Addiction (Young Leader Advisor grantee) is a documentary that captures a young filmmaker’s raw and vulnerable experience with phone addiction. After hitting rock bottom down the YouTube rabbit hole, she is determined to repair her relationship with her phone and reclaim her life by finding her voice in a growing youth-led digital well-being movement.

• Paragon Policy Fellowship (new grantee) provides college students with real policy experience while building tech capacity for state and local governments.

• People’s Public Lab (new grantee) is bridging the gap between research and community through their community-led projects that empower and amplify people who have faced historical and systematic oppression, displacement and other forms of social injustice.

• ReThink Citizens (Young Leader Advisor grantee) leads with a mission to tackle cyberbullying and foster digital literacy by equipping all youth with the tools and education they need to safely take on today's digital world.

• Rooted Futured Lab’s (new grantee) mission is to address the systemic neglect and exclusion of environmental justice in technology development and application.

• Seek Common Ground (Young Leader Advisor grantee) and its Student Action Network for Equity supports student organizers advancing democracy, racial justice, and education equity. 

• trubel&co (pronounced "trouble and co") (new grantee) is a tech-justice nonprofit that recruits, trains, and mobilizes the next generation to tackle social and environmental challenges using data, design, and technology.

• Young People's Alliance Education Fund (renewal grantee) empowers young people through student-led organizing and advocacy. Their student advocates work at colleges across North Carolina, state legislatures, and on Capitol Hill to amplify youth voices.

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About the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund (RTYPF): The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund is a first-of-its-kind philanthropic initiative aimed at supporting youth and intergenerationally led organizations shaping the responsible technology movement. The Fund, now in its second year, has raised over $4.5 million to support 501(c)3 eligible public charities, with award amounts ranging from $50,000 to $125,000, depending on the organization's stage and funding needs. Learn more about the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund and the 2025 cohort at: www.rtyouthpower.org.

The organizations partnering to invest in the fund are Omidyar Network, Hopelab, Susan Crown Exchange, The Archewell Foundation, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, The Carmel Hill Fund, Enlight Foundation, AI Collaborative, Oak Foundation, Pinterest, Pivotal, and Reynolds Lookup Fund. 

CONTACT: rtyouthpowerfund@evergreenstrategygroup.com