2025-11-17T12:25:44-08:00 2024-12-31 332212262 Hayes CPA LLC 806 Johnnie Dodds Blvd Mount Pleasant SC 29464 990EZ 2024-01-01 275484213 Carolina Youth Action Project CARO 8436371707 4442 Rice Mill Dr North Charleston SC 29420 Markelle Evans Co-Director 2025-11-17 true true Lindsey R Hayes CPA P01848312 8436062156 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.scyouthaction.org X X 144656 X 144656 0 0 0 0 144656 129446 7454 9951 6111 152962 -8306 82778 74472 82778 74472 82778 74472 82778 74472 Carolina Youth Action Project is a grassroots nonprofit that uses music as a vehicle for social change and builds power among girls and transgender youth in Charleston, South Carolina. We develop feminist and anti-racist youth leaders through cultural organizing practices that blend music education, political education, and DIY media making. Youth Leader Institute (YLI): The Youth Leader Institute aims to equip girls, trans youth and gender nonconforming youth ages 14-18 with the skills, support and critical analysis necessary to lead a movement for radical and lasting change in South Carolina. YLI serves as an organizing crash course, equipping young people with the tools to effectively build and sustain a base of folks who support and are invested in our campaign work. In 2024 CYAP built low-pressure, low-barrier hangout spaces on Discord oriented around gaming, art, music, and topics that were important to youth participants. CYAP continued to maintain its stance of no punishment, no shaming, and no forced participation modeling supportive accountability instead of control. In 2024 CYAP continued leadership development pathways, encouraging youth leaders to find their niche within our or within other organizations as leaders and changemakers. Also in 2024, CYAP built relationships with local organizations, colleges, and youth groups to plan potential collaborative programming. 90045 Jessamine Zine: In 2024,CYAP continued its focus on youth-led liberation, creative education, and community-rooted leadership, with programming centered on consent, boundaries, art-making, and abolitionist political education. Much of this work took shape through the Jessamine Zine initiative, which functioned as a youth-led space for creativity, storytelling, and mutual support. In 2024, CYAP continued its longstanding approach to non-punitive, consent-centered youth work. CYAP created and printed the inaugural zine issues that highlighted youth writing, art, and shared experiences under the umbrella theme of "power." Through the Zine initiative, CYAP helped young people see their work valued in public space via social media and print media. 36942 126987 Anjali Naik Chairperson 5.00 0 Markelle Evans Director 30.00 38164 Tessa Torgovitsky Secretary 30.00 38180 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false SC Markelle Evans 4442 Rice Mill Dr North Charleston SC 29420 8435574958 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 297775 584074 411803 248019 144656 1686327 2 2 0 0 0 297775 584074 411805 248019 144656 1686329 0 0 1686329 0 0 0 0 297775 584074 411805 248019 144656 1686329 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $1222 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $3107 Other Expenses.1 Annual Zine Expenses $1174 Other Expenses.2 Bank Fees $441 Other Expenses.3 Program Materials & Supplies $167