About CYDI
The Coalition of Youth Development Intermediaries (CYDI) is a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen and sustain the youth services sector across New York City. Formed in 2025, CYDI unites leading intermediaries and nonprofit partners to address acute crises, such as funding cuts, program censorship, staff burnout, and safety concerns, while also tackling the longer-term systemic barriers of resource scarcity, inequitable funding, and sector fragmentation. Our mission is to support, resource, connect, and equip youth-serving organizations so that young people most impacted by racial, social, and economic injustice can access choice-filled futures.
By building collective power, CYDI helps lay the groundwork for resilience and resistance in our communities. We strengthen coordination across intermediaries to maximize resources, reduce duplication, and amplify impact by:
Sharing critical information, resources, and trainings
Attracting and deploying funding into the nonprofit sector
Coordinating collective communications and action
Read more about CYDI at Philanthropy New York.
Founding Coalition Members:
Change Impact, ExpandED Schools, Lawyers Alliance for New York, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, NY State Network for Student Success, The Opportunity Network, Partnership for Afterschool Education, SparkYouth NYC, Student Success Network, WPTI (Workforce Professionals Training Institute), and Youth INC.
CYDI appreciates the following foundation partners for supporting our work:
Solon E. Summerfield Foundation
Carmel Hill Fund
EGF (Edwin Gould Foundation)
About CYDI
The Coalition of Youth Development Intermediaries (CYDI) is a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen and sustain the youth services sector across New York City. Formed in 2025, CYDI unites leading intermediaries and nonprofit partners to address acute crises, such as funding cuts, program censorship, staff burnout, and safety concerns, while also tackling the longer-term systemic barriers of resource scarcity, inequitable funding, and sector fragmentation. Our mission is to support, resource, connect, and equip youth-serving organizations so that young people most impacted by racial, social, and economic injustice can access choice-filled futures.
By building collective power, CYDI helps lay the groundwork for resilience and resistance in our communities. We strengthen coordination across intermediaries to maximize resources, reduce duplication, and amplify impact by:
Sharing critical information, resources, and trainings
Attracting and deploying funding into the nonprofit sector
Coordinating collective communications and action
Read more about CYDI at Philanthropy New York.
Founding Coalition Members:
Change Impact, ExpandED Schools, Lawyers Alliance for New York, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, NY State Network for Student Success, The Opportunity Network, Partnership for Afterschool Education, SparkYouth NYC, Student Success Network, WPTI (Workforce Professionals Training Institute), and Youth INC.
CYDI appreciates the following foundation partners for supporting our work:
Solon E. Summerfield Foundation
Carmel Hill Fund
EGF (Edwin Gould Foundation)