Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national nonprofit intermediary and support center for over 200 YouthBuild programs, and a leader in advocating for youth engagement in civil society. She is Chairman of the YouthBuild Coalition, with over 1000 member organizations in 43 states, Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands.
After joining the Civil Rights movement in 1964, and prior to starting YouthBuild USA in 1988, she ...
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Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national nonprofit intermediary and support center for over 200 YouthBuild programs, and a leader in advocating for youth engagement in civil society. She is Chairman of the YouthBuild Coalition, with over 1000 member organizations in 43 states, Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands.
After joining the Civil Rights movement in 1964, and prior to starting YouthBuild USA in 1988, she lived and worked for 24 years in Harlem. She was first a teacher and then director of a community-based day care center, elementary school, community development housing corporation, community service program, and a youth employment and leadership development program. She was director for 10 years of the first YouthBuild program, based in East Harlem. She has built grassroots coalitions that have succeeded in obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars of city, state, and federal funds for community-based organizations to implement programs for...
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