TY - CHAP AB - Abstract To better understand how corporate communicators and human resources professionals can champion volunteer activities and youth engagement as evidence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability commitment, this chapter explores representations of urban youth conservation–environmental empowerment through a textual analysis of three organizations’ websites: Clearwater, the Philadelphia Zoo, and The Nature Conservancy. In addition to identifying common themes across the websites, I compared each program to the Critical Social Theory of Youth Empowerment (CSTYE) framework consisting of six dimensions for maximum success in empowering youth stakeholders (Jennings, Parra-Medina, Hilfinger-Messias, & McLoughlin, 2006). Recommendations are provided for organizations using environmental–conservation programs targeting young people – and other researchers of this phenomenon. SN - 978-1-78714-585-6, 978-1-78714-586-3/ DO - 10.1108/978-1-78714-585-620181003 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-585-620181003 AU - Bradford Lauren ED - Donnalyn Pompper PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - Nonprofit Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Engaging Urban Youth through Empowerment T2 - Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethical Public Relations T3 - The Changing Context of Managing People PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 53 EP - 88 Y2 - 2024/09/19 ER -