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London Community Foundation (Ontario)

YIP: 2007 Grants

London Community Foundation's YIP Committee is pleased to announce the following grants (made possible from the interest earned from the Acorn Fund for Youth). Priority is given to application projects which demonstrate youth helping other youth or themselves, youth helping their community or the community helping youth.�

Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre, $989.97

The Hamilton Road Youth Entrepreneurs Tool Shed Project, to purchase tools for a seasonal odd job venture for youth ages 11-17 with an avid interest in working outdoors; intended to connect youth from the Hamilton Road community with local residents, business community partners, and pre-authorized green spaces to promote the services of snow shoveling, raking leaves, window washing and enhancing green spaces in the neighbourhood to promote stewardship of these natural areas around Hamilton Road; building community capacity, employment skills, social responsibility, environmental awareness.

London & Area Food Bank, $1,000.00

Arts for All Kids, Dance & Violin Studios, for dance shoes of various sizes and black metal music stands for the violin studio.

LUSO Community Services, $965.00

RAZE, a youth driven initiative; peer support for youth 14-18 in northeast London; twice monthly meetings to discuss, learn and share experiences, challenges and successes facing the rapidly evolving youth pop; three dinners to celebrate youth successes; creation of a scrapbook.

St. John Ambulance Foundation (London), $247.35

London Search & Rescue Team, Hug a Tree video project. Funding for a DVD/TV player combination to show the RCMP hug-a-tree videos to children (5-12 yrs); video teaches survival skills to children that they can draw upon if they ever find themselves lost in the woods.

The London Cinderella Project, $1,000.00

The London Cinderella Project (LCP) collects new and gently used formal attire and distributes the donations to grade eight graduated and high school prom attendees who could not otherwise afford to participate. Grant is for storage, dry cleaning and purchase of jewelry.

At^Lohsa Native Family Healing Services Inc., $10,000.00

Creating Harmony-Celebrating the Gifts of Our Youth. This project is designed to develop leadership among 20 London Aboriginal Youth by training them through a peaceful non-violent conflict resolution program (Creating Harmony). It is designed to prepare them to facilitate four social activities for youth and community members in order to promote peaceful healthy relationships and crease safe environments to learn about each other and celebrate their native culture.

London Community Foundation (Ontario)

YIP: 2006 Grants

Like many YACs, London Community Foundation's Youth in Philanthropy program has evolved over time since it first started over five years ago, and has used its experience to move to more focused strategies in its grantmaking.

It has recently embarked on a neighbourhood grants program that is making small, but effective grants, as well as offering new opportunities for community leadership.

The report from LCF/YIP:

Our meetings are well attended (nine members from grade 11 on) and well organized. We have a focused granting program with regular site visits and a plan for continuity for next year.

Since London Community Foundation was already focusing on granting to neighbourhoods in need, we decided to concentrate on youth in these neighbourhoods. We sent out our application form to youth workers, youth councils, and youth clubs in seven different neighbourhoods identified by LCF.

Our YIP grants are small - typically $1,000 or less - so we dramatically simplified our application form, asking three questions only and for a budget. We wanted to get as many applications as possible and hopefully have the forms filled out by the youth themselves. We emphasized that we give preference to programs where youth help youth, youth help their community or where the community helps youth.

We also arranged a few site visits to these neighbourhoods before the grant deadline to explain what we were all about and to encourage applications.

After the first granting cycle we have funded the following:

South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre, $320, Westminster Youth Council (an amazing group of 10 to 12 year olds)

For art supplies to run activity days for their school on teacher professional development days. We were considering a further $700 grant to buy a popcorn maker when LCF's executive director found a private donor from the Foundation who heard about the group and gave them a major grant.

London Urban Services Organization Inc / East London Community Services, $,1265

To support a program called Youth Speak created by five youth, collecting and publishing poems about the experience of immigration, multiculturalism and racism.

Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre, $1,000

To run a community kitchen for teenage single moms. This is a program we are very interested in and will probably fund a second program.

We are just starting our second and last cycle of the year. We have several site visits planned to encourage new applications and to follow up on our old ones. One neighbourhood has invited us back for a second visit even though we haven't funded them yet.

It's an immigrant community, public housing - the young Muslim women have organized a program but need role models to encourage the young men to come out. They want to hold a meeting with YIP male members to talk to their young men about community service and volunteerism in Canada - a great example of how Youth in Philanthropy is about more than money!!