VillageSoup - Community News - VillageSoup: "Youth Philanthropists Award Funds to Local Nonprofits
By Youthlinks
ALice Shea
ROCKLAND (June 21): For the past five months, students from the Watershed Community School, in collaboration with Youthlinks and the Maine Community Foundation, learned firsthand about civic engagement through grant making.
To increase youth awareness of, and involvement in, philanthropy in Knox County, the Maine Community Foundation provided $5,000 annually for three years to Youthlinks, with the specific objective of offering youth education in philanthropy. This year, the final of the program, students from the Watershed Community School met weekly with a Youthlinks facilitator to create a foundation that provides funding to worthy area nonprofit organizations, as seen from a youth perspective. Choosing to narrow the types of programs eligible for funding, the youth, who referred to their foundation as Partners in Philanthropy (PIP),"
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