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Youth in Philanthropy works with students grade 9 - 12 at four schools in the Concord area. These students are entrusted with reviewing and granting up to $10,000 in funds to nonprofit organizations serving children and youth.

The 2011-2012 program has kicked-off with students making site visits to nonprofit organizations who have submitted grant applications for their consideration.

Site Visits

Middlesex School

Ben Speaks
Hockomock Area YMCA
Everybody Wins Metro Boston
The Decibels Foundation

Concord Academy

The Food Project
Kids Connect Inc.
Eliot Community Human Services
MetroWest YMCA, High Flight Program

In 2010-2011, the high school programs recommended the following grants:

The Fenn School

This grant will provide general operating expenses for the experiential theater education program.

This grant will provide tuition assistance for a special needs child to participate in their therapeutic horseback riding program.

This grant will remodel and redecorate a room for a chronically-ill child.

Concord Academy

This grant funds the Council's Scholarship Project which works to make preschools more accessible to local working families of diverse cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds.

The grant will support the development of curriculum that will help children and teens to openly express their feelings and grief reactions through the use of creative activities such as art, music, and dramatic play.

This grant will fund the Financial Literacy Program – a 10-session series of courses designed to teach youth who are aging out of foster care and homeless the basic financial knowledge they will need to become independent, functioning adults.

Concord-Carlisle High School

Funding will support the AMC’s Outdoor Adventure and Deaf Youth Initiative in Framingham, offering deaf youth the opportunity to experience wilderness settings and develop confidence, leadership and life skills.

Funding will expand the teen leardership programs at the Framingham Clubhouse; helping youth develop and implement their own programs and activities.

This grant will provide books, parent guides, and classroom instruction to 250 elementary school children in Dedham and Hudson.

To fund activities/entertainment for youth involved with the one-on-one mentoring program.

Middlesex School

This grant will allow BBBS to supervise, train, and support mentors and match them with MetroWest youth.

Funds will be used to help support Waltham House, a unique community-based group home for 12 GLBTQ youth, 14-18 years old. The home assists these young people in developing skills to return to living in a family environment.

This grant will support students who are unable to contribute to the cost of their tutoring.

This grant will fund the Academic Support Services program helping 65 at-risk students through individualized educational and personal support in order to complete high school and gain admission to college.

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Meg Ramsey

In her quest to teach kids the importance of philanthropy, she has set a remarkable example.
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