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Calling all Sacramento region youth! We're seeking members for our Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY). GABY is a program in collaboration with Youth Development Network in which regional high school students learn about philanthropy and provide support to youth-led community projects through grants.
Learn more about GABY and apply by November 25 at 6 p.m. here:
http://tinyurl.com/GABYapply2022
đ¸ Carmen Ross, Charm Photography
Our President & CEO Cathy Rodriguez Aguirre and Vice President, Juan P. Novello had a chance to talk with the Youth Development Network about the state of the Latinx community in our Greater Sacramento Region. Listen here!
"Young people in our community donât often feel like they have an opportunity to express their opinion in a tangible way or make a change," Kismet Kairon, a leader with Youth Voices Sacramento, said at a recent convening of groups that received funding from the Foundationâs Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY). Youth Voices Sacramento used a portion of its GABY grant to make a difference by creating a website with links to literacy-related resources relevant to students, parents, and teachers. Check out the website here:
https://www.allyouthonthesamepage.org.
With guidance from our partners at Youth Development Network, members of our GABY Board awarded $5,000 to five youth-led projects in the Sacramento region this year. Since 2003, GABY has awarded more than $500,000 to support projects important to young people in our community!
Today, some of our staff participated in Strengths-Based Development workshops, a learning community designed to provide us with a better understanding of group dynamics and the impact of strengths identification in organizational effectiveness. A great way to learn more about our strengths and help us learn how to better support one another. Thank you Youth Development Network for this training, we loved it
Together with our fundholders, the Foundation granted more than $615,000 to nonprofits last week! Local organizations like Midtown Parks, Youth Development Network, PBS KVIE, Camp Nefesh, Folsom Historical Society, and many more are among the grantees. Thank you to all who give in the Sacramento region and beyond!
To learn about opening a personalized charitable fund to support the nonprofits vital to you and your loved ones, visit
www.sacregcf.org/donors.
Here are some of the photographs young people in our area took in the past year for a visual arts project, "At Home Student Film Photography."
The project was one of five funded by the youth leaders on our Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY), coordinated in partnership with Youth Development Network. Each project was designed and completed by young people in our region and tied to the theme âPromoting Adaptability and Rebuilding Through Community Equity.â
Members of GABY noticed that many of this yearâs projects embraced art as a medium to express the range of emotional responses young people felt during the past yearâjust as these photos do.
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Flashback to a lunchtime celebration with Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY) members (now alumnae!) and team members from the Foundation and Youth Development Network. Looking forward to the day when we can gather like this again!
The youth leaders who make up our Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY) funded five youth-led programs this year, all of which were highlighted during recent virtual convening:
â 4-H On the Wild Side, an environmental education project
â Social Justice: Engineering Change, a visual arts project
â At Home Student Film Photography, a visual arts project
â Equity in the Community, a student directed documentary
â Arts Matters, a visual arts project
Each project was designed by young people in our region, tied to the theme âPromoting Adaptability and Rebuilding Through Community Equity.â It didnât escape the Boardâs notice that many of this yearâs projects embraced art as a medium to express adaptability and equity.
âThat really impressed the Board, and all of us who work with GABY. These students pushed their projects forward while facing obstacles previous grantees haven't encountered. Quite simply, it's been inspiring,â said Carmen Ross, who leads the program at the Foundation in collaboration with Youth Development Network.
For more information about GABY, which seeks to engage local youth through service learning and philanthropy, please visit
www.sacregcf.org/gaby.
Thanks to Adrian Ruiz for sharing Roger Hart's Ladder of Participationâa useful tool to understand genuine engagement in programs meant for young peopleâwith our Community Impact Committee this week. As Executive Director of Youth Development Network, Adrian knows this stuff inside and out, and he and his team have applied it in their work with our Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY) for years.
"The magic starts to happen in rungs 5, 7, and 8," he said at the meeting. "And thatâs right where GABY is doing something special.â
We are proud to share that our West Sacramento Urban Farm Program Manager Sara Bernal is participating in the inaugural cohort of the Youth Development Networkâs Nueva Epoca Early Career Development Program! Nueva Epoca is a leadership program designed for early/mid-career, high-potential individuals and designed to establish a network of professionals to strengthen Latinx engagement in leadership for the post-pandemic world. We are beyond excited for Sara and the wonderful things she will accomplish through this program. To learn more about Nueva Epoca and the inagurual cohort, follow the link provided.
https://landbasedlearning.org/news-media
We are excited to announce our latest grant partners under the JBMF LIFT Initiative.
The initiative supports 25 Central Valley organizations with $1M in total funding. The latest grants include $450K to provide for leadership development, staffing, technology capacity, or strategic planning.
LIFT grants are aimed at lifting the voices of a diverse group of emerging and established community leaders who are working across the Central Valley to protect First Amendment freedoms, one of JBMFâs two pinnacle program areas, along with educational support for English and Dual Language Learners.
Congratulations to the following organizations:
Black Youth Leadership Project -BYLP
Breakbox Thought Collective- Fresno Black Girl Magic Project
California Center for Civic Participation
Central Valley Latino Leadership Academy
Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project, Inc. - CLYLP
Faith in the Valley-Fresno
Ivanhoe Sol -
https://www.facebook.com/The-Ivanhoe-Sol-110862220499558
Little Manila Rising
Stanislaus Community Foundation
Nate Nvil Solutions
Stanislaus County Youth Empowerment Program
PRO Youth and Families
Social Justice Politicorps -
https://www.facebook.com/SocialJusticeSac
Stanislaus Cradle to Career Partnership: Youth Power Building Network (Stanislaus Community Foundation)
YDN - Nueva Epoca Early Career Development Program
Youth Development Network
https://tinyurl.com/LIFTPressReleaseFeb2021
During two-days seminar this week, in collaboration with Youth Development Network, we successfully detected and our talents and weaknesses, founding the mechanism how to be even more successful. We are proud team shown mutual great passion for personal and team development.
Thank you to our pal's Youth Development Network for introducing us to "I'm In" and "I'm out" to help open and close virtual workshops and sessions!
Take a peek at this year's (virtual) Summer Institute, a three-day college-readiness convening for young men of color who are part of our Capital Area Promise Scholars program.
These bright students are pursuing their educational dreams during truly unprecedented times. Our message to them (which doubled as the Summer Institute's theme): Seize.The.Moment.
Thank you to our committed Capital Area Promise Scholars partners: Improve Your Tomorrow (who put this video together!), Sacramento Cal-SOAP, Youth Development Network, Innovation Bridge, and Paper Wings.
Learn more about the Capital Area Promise Scholars program at
www.sacregcf.org/caps.
Thanks to the generosity of so many in our community, we are rapidly deploying emergency funds to nonprofits in the capital area! The first round of funding from our Sacramento Region Disaster Relief Fund is comprised of awards to 19 organizations that provide vital services within the region â including emergency assistance, food security, healthcare, and childcare â and face severe operational challenges and non-recoverable expenses as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In total, we awarded nearly $150,000 in flexible, one-time grants in this initial round.
Recipients include American River Conservancy, Behavioral Educational Assessment Services, Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), Gender Health Center, Project Access, Inc.; RISE, Inc.; Saint John's Program for Real Change; Sierra College Foundation; Single Mom Strong- Sacramento; Society for the Blind; Starting Point for Refugee Children; Sunburst Projects; "The Gardens" Family Care Community Center, Inc.; The Salvation Army of Northern California; Twin Lakes Food Bank; Upper Room Dining Hall Placerville California; Verge Center for the Arts; Yolo Hospice; and Youth Development Network.
Awards from the Relief Fund are made on a rolling basis, with weekly grant reviews by Foundation staff and a community advisory committee. Nonprofits in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties can learn more about applying for emergency funding on our website at
www.sacregcf.org/emergency-funding.
To learn how to support the Foundation's COVID-19 response efforts, please visit
www.sacregcf.org/covid-19.
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