Youth Advisory Committee

YAC

 

Philanthropy: hard to say…cool to do! (cu-da-doo)

 

The 2003-2004 Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) is made up of 22 students from the middle and high schools in Emmet County.  Thanks to a matching grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation was able to establish a Youth Fund (a $1 million dollar endowed fund).  The YAC is responsible for making grant recommendations from the Youth Fund to benefit young people in our area.

YAC members for 2003-2004 are:

 

Ben Adams

John Bailey

Charlie Carr

Tad Garber

Maggie Hackman

Travis Hagelberg

Amanda Hagerl

Katie Johnson

Tamara Kiogima, Co-Chair

Tonya Kiogima

Carson Lo

Jessica Maurer, Co-Chair

Todd Maurer

Alex Osetek

John Pickering

John Ramer

Jessica Richey

Kyle Ronquist

Megan Schwartz

Perhansa Skallerup

Jenny Wendt

Ally Woodside

 


Have you heard of Emmet 20/20?  Have you heard about their Youth First Action Team?  Did you know that in November 2002 the Youth First Action Team conducted the Search Institutes’ “Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors.”  This survey was completed by 1,154 7th, 9th and 11th graders throughout Emmet County.  The Search Institute (in Minneapolis, MN) has identified 40 Developmental Assets (building blocks) of healthy development that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.  To see the results of the November 2002 survey, visit the Emmet 20/20 website (click here).   To learn more about the Search Institute, visit their website (click here).  

 

The 40 Asset is a much more positive way to approach youth issues.  Rather than focusing on the negative outcomes such as substance abuse, the 40 Assets give us ideas of what we can do to help prevent risk taking behavior.  The YAC will be using the results of the 40 Assets survey to help them with their grantmaking!!  If you are a grantseeker, we strongly encourage you to obtain a copy of the Emmet County 40 Assets on the Emmet 2020 homepage.  

 


Quality, affordable afterschool programs are important.  They keep kids safe, help working families and improve students’ academic achievement.  The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the US Department of Education created the Afterschool Alliance.  Lights On Afterschool! is a project of the Afterschool Alliance and sponsored by JC Penney Afterschool.  To learn more about the Afterschool Alliance and the many Lights On Afterschool! events taking place on October 14, 2004 >> click here.   

 


Click here to visit the website of the Michigan Community Foundation’s Youth Project and learn more about Michigan youth as grantmakers.

Contact us:

Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation

616 Petoskey Street, Suite 100

Petoskey, Michigan 49770

(231) 348-5820

fax (231) 348-5883

email: phsacf@freeway.net

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