The 2004 Governor's Award for Excellence in Community Service and Volunteerism

The nomination forms for the Governor's Awards are now available on our web site.  If you or your organization have questions regarding the Governor's Awards, please contact Ms. Sherry Early-Aden at (317) 232-2504 or
searly-aden@dwd.state.in.us. 

For further information on the Second Annual Governor's Conference on Service and Volunteerism, please visit our Web site at www.IN.gov/iccsv/.

YP Jam Participants Honor O'Bannons with School Supplies

HAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH AWARD $8,100 TO SEVEN ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH LEGACY FUND LINK YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL

Fifteen teenagers from various Hamilton County schools learned how everyday things like a teddy bear, refrigerator, or a meal can make an enormous difference in someone' s life.   

Since 1999, Legacy Fund has led teens through a grantmaking process to evaluate and discuss grant proposals and work with a budget to award grants to organizations serving Hamilton County.  The Link Youth Advisory Council was created in 2002 as a way to connect philanthropy to our youth beyond the grantmaking process. The Link Council works directly with the Legacy Fund Board of Governors and has a youth representative on the Legacy Fund Grant Distribution Committee. 

Kristin Arfman, Council Co-chairperson states,  " Building the Link Youth Advisory Council group has given us all a way to reach out and grow.  It allows us an opportunity we may not have normally had to make a positive difference in someone else's life; and to know this difference is made in our own communities makes being part of this group more of a privilege than actual work."

For more information on the Legacy Fund, go to our web site at www.ypin.org and go to map and click on Hamilton County.

Did you know?

Recently, the Points of Light Foundation and the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) looked at raw data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) - 60,000 households - to determine how states ranked in regards to the number of individuals over the age of 16 who volunteered 52 hours or more annually.  Indiana ranked 29th with 29.2%, while the state of Utah took first place with 46.8%.  The national average is 27.4 percent.

Mark Your Calendars - Second Annual Governor's Conference on Service and Volunteerism

The Second Annual Governor's Conference on Service and Volunteerism will be held October 6 and 7, 2004 at the Radisson Hotel City Centre in downtown Indianapolis.  This year's conference will be co-hosted with the Indiana Department of Education's Service Learning section, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Indiana Campus Compact.  The title of this year's conference will be "Volunteers Building Community: Growth, Leadership, and Collaboration" and will have a construction theme. 

  Extreme Vote at the YP Jam 2004

In a session on civic engagement at the YP Jam participants had a chance to cast their vote on issues facing young people today.  Here are the results:

• If elections were held today, George W. Bush would be elected by a narrow margin of 46% to 44% of the votes, with Nader receiving 10% of the votes.  Joe Kernan would be re-elected to a second term as governor with 58% of the votes. 
• 55% said that the U.S should not have entered the war with Iraq and 85% said that there should not be a mandatory draft with our continued efforts in Iraq. 
• When it came to community service, 70% of the  participants said that community service should be mandatory for high school graduation.  56% said that there should be a law stating that two years of service (military, Peace Corps, Americorps, teaching in inner city or rural areas, etc.) is required in exchange for two to four years of college being paid for by the government. 
• An overwhelming amount voted that the minimum wage should be raised to $6.25 and the age to get your driver's license in Indiana should not be raised to 18 years old.  
• It was a very close vote, 52% participants vs. 48%, thought that there should be more censorship of the media. 
• The final vote pertained to the ISTEP tests, 68% thought that the test were not helpful in showing what skills a student had acquired or what skills needed to be improved upon.

Indiana and Michigan Youth Workers are First to See New Material Being Used With Youth Philanthropy Across the United States

Indiana and Michigan youth workers from community based organizations, faith based programs and governmental agencies are being offered a "sneak preview" of exciting new materials being produced for youth and philanthropy programs across the United States.
 
Community Partnerships with Youth Inc. has partnered with Council of Michigan Foundation's Learning to Give program to develop training and activity modules which will help youth work successfully in adult and community partnerships as philanthropists and trustees.  Forty different activities have been broken into 4 different segments: Active Citizenship, the Basics of Philanthropy, Environment and Human Nature and  "Heros and Sheros." Each activity has a theme, intended outcomes and  a step-by-step process for implementing the activity. Most activities take between 30 - 90 minutes to complete.

Youth groups and youth serving organizations that want to receive these new materials are being asked to participate in a field test being held throughout Indiana and Michigan from August - October, 2004.  Participants will be asked to give feedback in a survey that will accompany the training module.  Once the field tests are completed, each module will be published on a web portal where groups will be acknowledged for their contribution. Anyone who is interested should contact Lisa Patterson, National Training Director, Community Partnerships with Youth Inc. at 317-875-5756 or email Lisa at  lpatterson@cpyinc.org.

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For more information, contact:
Jerry Finn (812) 923-2065
The Youth Philanthropy Initiative of Indiana (YPII)
32 East Washington Street, Suite 1100
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
317.715.6709, YPII@aol.com, www.YPIN.org

...growing lifelong philanthropists who give of their time, talent, and treasure for the common good.

Supporters of the Vision
Center for Youth as Resources, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Clowes Fund, Community Foundation of Southern Indiana,  Community Partnerships with Youth, Emmis Communications, Indiana Association of School Principals, Indiana Association of United Ways, Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism, Indiana Dollars for Scholars, Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, Indiana Humanities Council, Indiana Youth Institute, Indiana Pacers Foundation, Indiana Association of Cities and Towns Foundation, Indiana Youth Commission for Service and Leadership, Indiana Youth Services Association, Indianapolis Colts, The Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, Johnson County Youth Services Bureau, Legacy Fund of Hamilton County a CICF affiliate, Marion County Commission on Youth, The Mary E. Ober Foundation, Moore Foundation, Women's Fund of Central Indiana a CICF Fund, Youth As Resources-United Way of Central Indiana and 4-H/Youth Development.