Adobe Youth Voices
A global philanthropic initiative to empower youth in underserved communities
Learn about AYV
Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high-school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.
Resources for educators
To empower educators to use media to engage youth in learning, Adobe and its founding nonprofit partners have compiled a variety of free and low-cost resources to help you integrate youth media into your classroom or out-of-classroom programs.
News and events
Adobe Youth Voices is accepting applications for the 2009/2010 school year
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle and high school age youth in a yearlong youth media professional development and support program. AYV educators, in both in-school and out-of school programs, gain skills to enable youth to use digital tools to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Adobe Youth Voices provides eligible educators with funding, software, mentorship, exhibition opportunities, and access to a regional and global network of like-minded teachers and youth media experts. The AYV Summer Institute and Media Mentorship prepares educators to facilitate youth created media projects, including videos, documentaries, digital photography, photo journalism, animations, websites, and multimedia. Together, we enhance educational practices that empower young people to gain twenty first century skills and become active participants in their lives and community.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, May 29th at 5 pm PT.
Application: www.fsrequests.com/adobe-ayv
Adobe Youth Voices and SF Camerawork Give Youth Once in a Lifetime Opportunity
The United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth Share Lives Through the Lens exhibition featured photographs taken by underserved youth from SF Camerawork’s First Exposures photography mentoring program and teens living in the notoriously poor Nima slum of Accra, Ghana. The youth spent three weeks together in the summer of 2008, sharing their lives, culture and art.
AYV Spotlight
Burnett Academy, San Jose, California
A second-year AYV site, Burnett Academy engages youth 11 to 14 years of age in creating with purpose. Last year, Burnett students created photo-essays as part of the Day in the Life photo project with AYV founding partner What Kids Can Do.
Contact us
For more information about the Adobe Youth Voices program, send an e-mail to youthvoices@adobe.com.
