SECOND ROUND OF GRANTS AWARDED FOR YOUTH PROGRAMS BY
M&M AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) of the M&M Area Community Foundation has awarded a second round of grants totaling $5,120 for 6 local youth programs. Earlier this year the Youth Advisory Committee awarded 27,803 for 13 local youth programs.

One of the programs was fully funded. Healthy Youth Coalition of Marinette and Menominee Counties was awarded $1500 for their Healthy Youth Coalition Teen Leadership Initiative.

Five other programs were partially funded including: Marinette Middle School Math Program, $500 for their Innovative-Remedial Math Program; Marinette County UW-Extension, Family Living Program, $250 for Child Wellness Partnership “Get Active” booklets; Goodwill Industries of Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, Inc., $450 for their Youth Skill Development Program; Civil Air Patrol-Twin County Composite Squadron, $1210 for Project Airborne; DAR Boys & Girls Club, $1210 for their Ham Radio Project.

The Youth Advisory Committee is comprised of area high school students. The committee sponsors and participates in youth-directed philanthropic activities in the Foundation's service area. It directs grants from the Youth Field of Interest Fund in the Foundation's permanent endowment according to its assessment of community youth needs and participates in the development of endowment funds. YAC members and all friends of the Foundation are urged to encourage young people between the ages of 14 and 21 to consider joining the group as a way to give back to their communities.

2006 - GRANTS AWARDED FOR YOUTH PROGRAMS BY M&M AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) of the M&M Area Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling $27,803 for 13 local youth programs. The grants were awarded on Thursday, May 25, at a reception held at the Best Western, Marinette.

Four of the programs were fully funded. They went to Blesch Restoration Committee, $5,000 for Blesch Field Restoration, Menominee Area Arts Council, $500 for a Children’s Art Station during “Art for All”, Coleman Elementary School, $1,000 for their “Dance Your Way to Fitness” program and UW-Marinette Children’s Theatre, $3,000 for the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical, Cinderella.

Eight other programs were partially funded including: DAR Boys & Girls Club, $4,500 for their outdoor sports field project; FROSTBYTE Team 754 Robotics, $2,000 for their First Robotics Competition; WSP-3 (Wells State Park), $1,000 for playground equipment; Menominee Area Public Schools Student Council, $3,500 towards attending their 2007 state conference; Menominee Job’s Daughters, $500 for their Junior Princess Project; Quinn Haberl Foundation, $2,000 for the Quinn Haberl Foundation Guide Dog School; The Greater M&M YMCA and the Marinette & Menominee National Honor Society, $1,000 for their Cinderella Club; City of Menominee, $2,100 for Spies Field Baseball Dugout. The committee reserved another $1,703 as its own initiative to adopt a local family in need of support.

As usual, some YAC members will be lost to graduation this year, and new members will be needed. YAC members and all friends of the Foundation are urged to encourage young people between the ages of 14 and 21 to consider joining the group as a way to give back to their communities.