📰 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth Peace & Justice Foundation Announces Strategic Recalibration: Discontinuing School Investigations to Maximize Systemic Prevention and Empowerment Initiatives 13 November 2025 The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation (YPJF), having evolved its mission from its predecessor, The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, today confirms a decisive strategic action: the cessation of its formal school investigation program. This decision is integral to a comprehensive o

A Youth's Inquiry, A Youth's Hope: An Open Letter to America 🇺🇸 A Reimagined Classic Sparks A Young Girls Letter Of Peace To America This Holiday Season Our foundations own, "Letter Of Peace," will be shared at the 15th Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture, taking place on 20 November 2025 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre under the theme “Faith, Conflict, and Our Shared Humanity in a Fractured World.” In 1897, a young girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote t

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth Peace and Justice Foundation Launches ‘Light the Way’ Campaign to Fund Critical Mentorship Hub in Central Texas CAMPAIGN : "Light the Way" Holiday Fundraiser GOAL : $10,000, needed by the deadline of Dec. 31, 2025. LOCATION : Central Texas communities, specifically the Temple and Austin areas. FOCUS : Establish the new Community Mentorship Hub infrastructure (digital workstations, mentor training, and safe spaces). IMPACT : The Hub serves as a high

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Youth Peace & Justice Foundation Releases Final 2025 Financials, Confirms 76.95% Mission Efficiency, and Announces Strategic Staffing Investmen t for Sustainability ​ TEMPLE, Texas — November 30, 2025  — ​ The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation (YPJF), recently rebranded from The Uvalde Foundation for Kids, today released final, audited financials for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2025. The report confirms a highly efficient Program Service Ratio (P

The Path Forward: Our 2025 Financial Transparency and Sustainability Goal ​ November 30, 2025 ​ Hello YPJF Community, ​ What a year it has been! As we close the books on the fiscal year ending November 30, 2025, we are excited—and a little humbled—to share our final financial reports. This release of our formal 990-EZ data is central to our commitment to full transparency, a promise we made when we transitioned from The Uvalde Foundation for Kids to the Youth Peace & Justice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth Foundation and Slain Teen's Mother Launch Emergency Forum to Combat Violence Surge with Restorative Justice Initiative WEST VALLEY, Utah (AP) — Nov. 7, 2025 — The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation (YPJF), also known as The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, today announced an emergency community forum and a new strategic initiative to address the unprecedented surge in youth violence following the tragic double homicide at the recent Halloween party resu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 September 2025 The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation/Uvalde Foundation for Kids Announces Launch of its 4th Annual, "Trees of Hope" Christmas Tree Giveaway for Texas Families TEMPLE, TX – September 24, 2025 – The Foundation today announced the launch of its 4th Annual "Trees of Hope" initiative, a Christmas tree giveaway aimed at bringing holiday joy to deserving families across Texas. This year, the foundation will ship live, undecorated Christmas tre

Official Announcement : The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation Further Defines National Role, Launches New Impact Model, and Commits to Enhanced Transparency: Last Week The Foundation Released Initial Planning Temple, Texas – October 31, 2025 – The Board of Directors for The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation, which operates as a key AKA legal subsidiary of the Uvalde Foundation for Kids (Charity ID 88-3268749), has met again this week, to close out October 2025, completing a s

🚨 CRISIS OPERATIONS ALERT: YPJF Adjusts Program to Manage 10,000+ Requests; Gift Card Applications PAUSED & New Bell County Direct Food Aid Launched 🚨 AUSTIN, Texas—October 31, 2025— UPDATE 3 NOVEMBER 2025: The Trump administration agreed Monday to comply with court orders requiring the federal government to partially fund SNAP benefits using contingency, or emergency, funds. More than 40 million Americans were left in limbo as funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistanc

Urgent Appeal for Immediate Action: The SNAP Crisis and the Imperative to End the Government Shutdown October 30, 2025 The Honorable Donald J. Trump President of the United States The Honorable JD Vance Vice President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader The Honorable Steve Scalise Senate Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Mike Johnson S

For Immediate Release 💥 IMMEDIATE CRISIS ALERT: YPJF Launches Massive 12-County, 10,000+ Inquiry Food Card Lifeline as SNAP Benefits Crisis Looms! 🚨 AUSTIN, Texas—Oct. 29, 2025— The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation (YPJF), a 501c3 non-profit charity also known as The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, has expanded its emergency operations to address the looming November SNAP benefits crisis impacting Texas families. The foundation today issued an urgent call for community supp

The Nexus of Hunger & Conflict: A Socio-Ecological Analysis of Youth Violence in the Wake of Acute SNAP Disruption Abstract/Executive Summary This expert-level analysis regenerates the core thesis that politically motivated disruption of core social safety nets constitutes a profound act of structural violence, directly activating established criminogenic pathways and undermining long-term community peacebuilding efforts. The current or imminent disruption of the Supplement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨 CRITICAL URGENT APPEAL: Youth Peace and Justice Foundation Seeks Immediate Donations to Sustain Food Security for Texas Children Amid SNAP Crisis 🚨 AUSTIN, Texas—Oct. 29, 2025— The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation (YPJF), also known as The Uvalde Foundation For Kids nonprofit charity, today issued a critical, urgent call for community support to sustain its massive emergency food card assistance program. Since the announcement of the program's expa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🍎 Youth Peace and Justice Foundation Provides Emergency Food Help to Bell County Families Facing SNAP Cuts and New Rules BELL COUNTY, Texas—Oct. 27, 2025— UPDATE 3 November 2025 The Trump administration agreed today, Monday, to comply with court orders requiring the federal government to partially fund SNAP benefits using contingency, or emergency, funds. More than 40 million Americans were left in limbo as funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistanc

The Cultural Imperative: Tactical De-escalation, Policy Volatility, and the Foundational Shift Towards Non-Violent Civil Action in the United States Introduction: The Dual Crisis and the Mandate for Cultural Transformation The United States currently confronts a complex, interlocking crisis defined by two primary forms of violence: endemic physical violence, exemplified by the persistent national epidemic of gun deaths, and pervasive cultural violence. This cultural violence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth Peace and Justice Foundation to Hire Professional Staff, Moving Past All-Volunteer Model: Strategic Shift Follows Rebranding, Enhanced Financial Transparency, and Collective Commitment to National Youth Mission Clarity TEMPLE, Texas – Oct. 20, 2025 – The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation (YPJF), which operates as the public face (DBA) of the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, is launching a new two-year plan called, " Professionalizing for Impact " (P4I)

The Civil Rights Blueprint: A Strategy for 21st-Century Youth Justice Executive Summary The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation (YPJF) asserts that modern youth activism, seeking peace and structural justice, must adopt the strategic discipline of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (CRM). While the CRM targeted de jure segregation with a unified goal and nonviolent direct action, today's movements confront de facto inequality across diffuse issues—from gun violence and economic s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jennifer West Title: Media Relations Lead, "Youth Peace & Justice Foundation," Releases Brief As ICE Community Conflicts Increase Nationwide YOUTH PEACE & JUSTICE FOUNDATION AMBASSADORS ISSUE DECLARATION MANDATING TACTICAL DE-ESCALATION AND NON-VIOLENT CIVIL ACTION AMIDST WORSENING URBAN CONFLICTS NATIONWIDE NEW YORK, NY – October 20, 2025 – The Student Ambassador Team of the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a national 501(c)(3) organization d

Youth Impact Initiative: A Collaborative Peace and Justice Initiative ​ Project Goal ​The core goal of the Youth Impact Model Initiative is to address the root causes of conflict  in a community by fostering sustainable collaboration, shared understanding, and collective impact  among diverse young people. We aim to to move beyond competitive, single-issue, responsive approaches, while advocating for and creating community change, by emphasizing shared leadership and meaningf

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Uvalde Foundation for Kids Takes Full Ownership of Past, Rebrands as The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation with Mandate for Total Transparency and Governance Reform TEMPLE, Texas (Oct. 18, 2025) — The Uvalde Foundation for Kids, a national non-profit dedicated to ending violence and promoting student safety, today announced a complete organizational restructuring and rebrand under the new name, The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation. This strategic chan