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"I learned that there is more to a community than going to school and work, it's taught me community service and working together."

Nipa Begum, YAC member of the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan

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Your opportunity to nominate one of your grants for the "Great Grants/Initiatives” award is at the Michigan Community Foundations’ Youth Project (MCFYP) Summer Youth Leadership Conference, held at the University of Michigan, June 27-29, 2008. Register here!

 
    Looking for the confirmation packet for Summer Conference? 

Click here if you're a YACer 

Click here if you're an Advisor

 

    The 2008 Youth Grantmakers Summer Leadership Conference is coming soon:
The annual MCFYP sponsored youth conference will be held at the University of Michigan June 27-29.  The conference theme, I Am Only One: One Individual, One Community, One Vision, is inspired by a recent talk by Russ Mawby, founder of Michigan youth philanthropy.  For more information and the registration brochure, look at the conference site!
    Hillsdale's $4,000 grants inspired by Youth Grantmakers Summer Conference:
Hillsdale County Community Foundation YOUTH
Grant $4,000 to Beautify Local Communities.  “Modeling their idea after a program currently in existence in the city of Detroit, called ‘Summer in the City,’ the YOUTH opted to support our local communities by providing small, proactive mini-grants to encourage beautification projects,” Learn more about the grants.
   

May YACer of the Month:

Congratulations to Lindsey Thelen of the Bay Area Community Foundation for her selection as the May YACer of the Month! To read about Lindsey's contributions to her community, click here

 
    In case you missed the Fall Training Conference Calls offered by CMF, you can download the presentations online.  Click here!
    Southfield YAC alum Ellie Gunderson is highlighted by the Detroit Free Press for "Crossing Racial Divide"  Read the article
    New tools and resources for YAC Advisors:
       
     

 

       

 

       

Youthgrantmakers.org is a communication of the Michigan Community Foundation Youth Project (MCFYP) of the Council of Michigan Foundations, with funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.