Youth Leaders Seeking Grant Proposals

The Valley United Way Youth Leadership Program is beginning there annual Community Youth Venture Grants, awarded to organizations in the Valley area. The Youth Leaders have decided to focus their allocations in the following five areas:

*Drug and Alcohol Abuse
*Mental/Physical Health
*Domestic Violence
*Stress and Anxiety
*Self-Help
-Gambling
-Suicide
-Bullying
-Family counseling

The Youth Leadership Venture Grant Program is targeted at assisting organizations that either have or are planning on implementing programs/services that focus on the above identified areas. If an organization is seeking funds for an existing program/service, such funding should be requested for expansion or enhancement of the program/service. In order to assure as broad an impact as possible, individual funding requests should not exceed $1,000.

Agencies interested in applying for the Community Youth Leadership Venture Grant must complete the online grant proposal form (Click here for the form). All grant proposals must be submitted by Monday, January 9, 2009. Follow-up interviews will begin the third week of January.

Since 1990, when the program first began distributing grants, Valley United Way’s Youth Leadership members have distributed over $46,000 in funding to the community for new and innovative programs.

For more information on the Youth Leadership Program call Patricia Tarasovic at 203.926-9478 or email patricia.tarasovic@valleyunitedway.org.

The Youth Leadership Program is made possible through the generous support of the Raymond P. Lavietes Foundation which provides core funding.