youth philanthropy accomplishments

• Awarded more than $900,000 in grants to nearly 300 youth-led projects and programs.
• Led the establishment of a legislated, dedicated yearly fund of close to $1 million, reserved exclusively for youth-led projects and organizations, until at least 2015, for San Francisco youth.
• Produced the first national assessment of youth philanthropy in the United States in 2001.
• Trained hundreds of young people across the United States in grantmaking skills and responsibilities.
• Established the Philanthropy Learning Network, which connects youth grantmakers and adult philanthropy professionals for information-sharing, discussion of grantmaking strategies, and collaborative grantmaking.

County Community After School Music Program, YMCA Probation After School Program
A program bringing together participants from the YMCA Probation After School Program and Phoenix Academy in Marin, County Community After School Music Program uses music as a way to create bonds and overcome stereotypes, allowing young people to feel their value and act on their strengths. Students meet on a regular basis to learn how to put original raps and songs to music and then to compile a CD.

The Latino Student Union, College of Marin
The Latino Student Union provides social and academic support to Latino students at the College of Marin. The union aims to increase Latino student involvement in campus and community activities and encourage the development of leadership skills.

REACH, Marin AIDS Project
Drawing more than 400 youth from across Marin County, REACH hosted a dance that offered an opportunity to educate youth about safer sex practices and sexually transmitted infections, and build community, all while having fun in a supportive and alcohol-free environment.

Bayview LEARNS, SFLearns
The Jovahn McDowell Study Center at Bayview Library in San Francisco offers cross-age tutoring and mentoring program for elementary and high school students in the heart of Bayview/Hunters Point. The project was started and named in honor of a Bayview Learns student who passed away June 28, 2003.

HOMEY Native Graphix, HOMEY
Native Graphix is a youth-run screen-printing business in San Francisco that caters to local nonprofits and small businesses. It is an economic development project that seeks to employ and train youth, provide them with job skills and build youth leaders.

Urban Arts Club, 21st Century After School Program
A program at John O'Connell High School in San Francisco, the Urban Arts Club promotes and supports graffiti as an art form. In addition to creating a graffiti art mural to showcase this powerful art form, participants work to end tagging on the streets and encourage and support other high schools to start similar projects.

Young Queens on the Rise, Mission Neighborhood Center
Located in the Mission District of San Francisco, Young Queens provides each participant with a "big sister" graduate of the program to mentor her in education, employment, and building healthy relationships.

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