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The Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) and the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) recently announced the distribution of more than $7,000 in mini-grant funds to support 2015 Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) projects across the state.
MCSC and MNA, along with several partners, will fund 16 GYSD projects with grants ranging from $200-$500 for a total of $7,100. These projects will engage nearly 2,500 volunteers, including 1,700 youth, in close to 12,000 volunteer hours.
Thanks to these mini-grants, Michigan youth will lend their considerable resources to address critical issues in their communities this April, including education, economic opportunity, health, clean energy and environmental stewardship, hunger, homelessness, supporting veterans and military families and public safety.
“All of the projects we are supporting aim to not only engage youth as volunteers, but to empower youth in planning and executing these projects to make a difference in their communities,” said MCSC Executive Director Ginna Holmes. “We hope that this experience will encourage youth to participate in a lifetime of service.”
Global Youth Service Day is an annual volunteer event that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day through service and service-learning. Established in 1988 by Youth Service America, GYSD is the largest service event in the world and is now celebrated in more than 100 countries. On GYSD, children and youth address the world's most critical issues in partnership with families, schools, community and faith-based organizations, businesses, and governments. The official dates of 2015 GYSD are April 17, 18, and 19, but many projects will occur the weeks before and after.
“The GYSD service projects teach our young people the importance of public service,” said Donna Murray-Brown, president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association. “This initiative is designed to ignite the power of all kids and teens to make their mark on their communities.”
MCSC and MNA partners include Volunteer Centers of Michigan, The LEAGUE Michigan, and Michigan Campus Compact, with support from the Connect Michigan Alliance Endowment Fund and Youth Service America.
2015 GYSD mini-grant recipients:
|
Organization |
Funding |
Location |
Project Details |
|
Rockwood Housing Commission |
$ 500 |
Rockwood |
Rockwood Housing is a PHA 'Public Housing Authority' better known as 'The Projects'. We are planning to build a community garden that will bring people out of their homes and create a sense of community. |
|
Ferris State University |
$500 |
Big Rapids |
Several will be service projects that revolve around Environmental Education and Stewardship. |
|
South Oakland Shelter |
$500 |
Lathrup Village |
South Oakland Shelter's goal for 2015 GYSD is to engage local youth and community members in raising awareness of poverty and homelessness in Oakland County and across the nation. |
|
Wayne State University |
$500 |
Detroit |
The AmeriCorps Urban Safety Program will engage with youth volunteers to improve the safety of students who walk to and from school in Detroit. |
|
United Way of Saginaw County |
$500 |
Saginaw |
The purpose of our project is to rebuild an urban community garden in an impoverished area of Saginaw City to benefit 150 families in the immediate community. |
|
buildOn |
$500 |
Detroit |
On April 18, buildOn students in Detroit will come together with veterans for a number of service projects at the Detroit Veterans Housing Program. |
|
United Way of the Eastern Upper Peninsula |
$500 |
Sault Ste. Marie |
The purpose of this project is to assemble food boxes to be distributed to area residents through a local food pantry. |
|
Summit Academy |
$500 |
Flat Rock |
The purpose of this service learning project is to help educate students about the needs of animals in shelters and to help them become even more compassionate stewards. |
|
Detroit Kappa Foundation |
$350 |
Berkley |
The purpose Read One, To One Project is a reading awareness project directed at Kindergarten through 3rd grade students at P.A.C.E. Academy. |
|
Capital Area Mentoring Partnership |
$200 |
Lansing |
Our purpose is to engage the youth in a meaningful service project that exposes and connects people to nature in the heart of Lansing through conservation, education, and stewardship with Fenner Nature Center. |
|
NorthWest Initiative |
$500 |
Lansing |
This project will engage youth to address the hunger, nutrition and food access concerns in the region by designing and distributing “container gardens” to feed insecure families and seniors in their community. |
|
Blandford Nature Center |
$500 |
Grand Rapids |
This project is aimed at protecting forest floodplains and neighboring waterways restoring habitats for our dragonfly neighbors. |
|
University of Michigan- Flint |
$500 |
Flint |
The service project will consist of building a shaded structure as well as planting fruit trees and providing spring maintenance to the Outdoor Learning Classroom at Beecher Middle High School. |
|
United Way of the Lakeshore Volunteer Center |
$350 |
Muskegon |
Youth volunteers will work in teams to open camp for the camping season. |
|
City Year Detroit |
$500 |
Detroit |
This project will be school rehabilitation for a recently opened 5th-11th grade charter school. |
|
VIP Mentoring Program |
$500 |
Detroit |
The “Give a Backpack, Encourage a Homeless Child” project will take place over five days during the week of Global Youth Service Day. |
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$7,100.00 |
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