Cadillac & Kellogg for Youth Committee Youth Survey Results:

2006 Youth Issues Survey Results Available Here.

2006 Youth Survey Form Available Here.

2004 Youth Issues Survey Results Available Here.

 

HISTORY OF CADILLAC AND KELLOGG FOR YOUTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Established in 1990, the Cadillac and Kellogg for Youth Committee is part of the Michigan Community Foundations’ statewide Youth Project (MCFYP) funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. This program was initiated to build community foundation capacity, to establish youth as philanthropists, and to build permanent and growing funds within each community to meet local youth needs.

The Cadillac & Kellogg for Youth Fund Advisory Committee sponsors the "Rock The Dock" summer concert series at the Rotary Pavillion on Lake Cadillac. (Photo Courtesy of the Cadillac Area Visitors Bureau.)

Through funds provided by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the MCFYP provided challenge grants, technical assistance, leadership training, scholarships, minigrants and conferences for Michigan community foundations and their Youth Advisory Committees (YACs). The challenge grant required $2 of local funds to be raised and placed in a permanent unrestricted fund or field-of-interest fund of a community foundation, to leverage $1 of W. K. Kellogg Foundation funds. The Kellogg funds were then placed in a Youth Field-of-Interest Fund.

Through fund-raising efforts by the Cadillac Area Community Foundation, and the matching funds captured through the generosity of the W. K. Kellogg challenge grant, the Youth Fund had a balance of over $1.2 Million on December 31, 2001. Interest earned from this Fund is awarded as grants to nonprofit organizations within the Cadillac area, to fund projects and programs that improve the quality of life for area youth. The grants are awarded by the Cadillac & Kellogg for Youth Committee, an advisory committee to the Cadillac Area Community Foundation Board of Trustees.

WHO WE ARE

The purposes of the Youth Committee are to train young people in decision-making skills, to provide a forum for youth interests and needs, to commit resources for youth projects and programs, and to involve youth in both volunteerism and philanthropy.

The Youth Committee is made up of area youth and represent the geographic, socio-economic, ethnic and educational differences within the community. There are also adult advisors who assist the youth as needed.

WHAT WE DO

Youth committee members participate in assessing the needs and assets that exist to address the concerns of youth within our community, review grant applications and make recommendations to the Foundation's Board of Trustees, assist in fund-raising events as needed, stimulate youth involvement in volunteerism, serve in a leadership role for any youth summits and workshops focused on local issues concerning youth, and evaluate the effectiveness of the projects they fund as well as their own group. The committee meets monthly throughout the school year. Youth committee members also participate in statewide events with other Youth Advisory Committees (YACs).

For further information about the Michigan Community Foundations Youth Project, click here.

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