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The Winnipeg Foundation (Manitoba)

Winnipeg YIP: 2008 Grants

Winnipeg YiPpers announce grants at "future-iffic"celebration.

On May 20^th, Winnipeg YiP participants announced their 2007-08 grants at a special gathering of approximately 400 YiP participants, staff advisors, and grant recipients. The evening's theme, "Future-iffic", recognized the impact of YiP in the community both today and tomorrow. Each of the 23-student led committees prepared a presentation that reflected on their experiences and shared what they learned during their year in YiP. These presentations included videos, skits, displays, speeches and much more. The celebration event also allowed passionate young philanthropists to meet with each other and with representatives from the organizations they helped benefit.

This year, Winnipeg YiP committees made 153 grants to 92 charities, for a total of $115,971. Grants include support for: a suicide hotline at a community health centre, breakfast programs for inner-city elementary schools, equipment for animal rescue shelters, better facilities at youth drop in centres, and dozens of other community projects.

The Winnipeg Foundation (Manitoba)

Winnipeg YIP Initiative: 2004 Grants

Winnipeg�s YIP Initiative operates through local area high schools. Below is a summary of grants made in 2004, by school group.

The Balmoral High School YIP Committee made these grants:

Youth Employment Service Manitoba (YES)
One-day course
$400

The grant was made to YES for the purpose of education, training and certifying local youth in the Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS). The employment services provided 18 youth with a free training session that was four hours long. The session was designed to teach the youth clients certification on WHMIS that will help all of the participants gain and maintain work in various fields. This enables youth to be more likely to get jobs because they are trained. This was knowledge that the youth would not have been able to afford getting otherwise.

Main Street Project
Patio construction
$500

This grant was made to Main Street Project, an organization that works with Winnipeg�s inner-city individuals who are in need and unable to function due to alcoholism, chemical dependency, being intoxicated, injured, abused, lost or homeless.

The project focused on making a beautiful garden to enhance the quality of life for individuals participating in their programs. The facility�s courtyard was transformed from an overgrown piece of unused land into a welcoming space with planters, patio blocks, new chairs, a table with an umbrella, and a vegetable garden. Through this grant, the Main Street Project clients are able to spend time outside socializing and hopefully having more interaction with each other.

The R.B. Russell High School and Vincent Massey Collegiate YIP Committees together made these grants:

Community Education Development Association $500 for a community celebration (R.B. Russell) and $1,000 for the Youth Opportunity program (Vincent Massey)

They might attend different high schools in different neighbourhoods, have different friends and different upbringings, but there are some interests that are universal to all teens. In the case of the students from Vincent Massey Collegiate and RB Russell High School one of those common interests is community development.

In 2004, the committees at both schools chose to make grants to Community Education and Development Association of Winnipeg, an economic development organization that works in the inner-city. The grant made by the R.B. Russell committee was used to support a community celebration hosted by the organization. The grant made by Vincent Massey committee was targeted at the organization�s Youth Opportunities Program, which provides mentoring, job-training, employment and life skills development to students in inner-city schools.

The Daniel McIntyre Collegiate YIP Committee made this grant:

Child Guidance Clinic
TheraPlay program
$800

This grant was used for a summer pilot of Theraplay, a treatment method for enhancing attachment and engagement between parents and children, to determine if the model would be a useful tool for teenage mothers. The mothers that attended the program indicated that they looked forward to coming to the program and that they would like to participate in the program again if it were offered.

The Miles Macdonell Collegiate YIP Committee made this grant:

Art City
Art supplies
$1,000

Art City is a non-profit centre dedicated to providing high-quality art programming to residents of the West Broadway area. Their objectives are to encourage self-expression, communication and creativity, thereby fostering a sense of self-worth and accomplishment in participants. Art City also provides a safe, supportive and non-competitive environment for children and adults in the area. What was really inspiring to us was a quote from a seven-year-old child: �Art City is a place to go so you don�t have a bad day.�

The Glenlawn Collegiate YIP Committee made this grant:

Resource Conservation Manitoba
Communications materials on composting
$500

Resource Conservation Manitoba�s Compost Action Program encourages people to compost organic materials in their backyards. The program offers free workshops and �how-to-compost� publications, and runs a toll-free telephone helpline that is available across the province. By promoting a specific environmental practice that most householders can do, it also raises community awareness of the ecological consequences of everyday decisions about resource consumption and waste.