YCI History
This is what the letters YCI stand for.
What is Youth for Community Improvement?
This student-run organization, based at Worcester's South High Community School, provides free clothing to students and families in need.
What is Andy's Attic?
Greater Worcester Community Foundation primarily serves nonprofit organizations and residents in this Massachusetts county.
What is Worcester County?
This word describes the act of giving time, money, or resources to help others and improve communities.
What is philanthropy?
This term describes young people's ability to share their opinions, ideas, and experiences in decisions that affect their lives and communities.
What is youth voice?
In 2019, YCI students reviewed 30 grant applications. How many nonprofit organizations ultimately received funding?
What is 15 organizations?
his Worcester nonprofit promotes food justice through community gardens, farmers markets, and a youth farming and employment program called YouthGROW.
What is the Regional Environmental Council (REC)?
This type of charitable organization brings together donations from individuals, families, and businesses to support the needs of a specific geographic area.
What is a community foundation?
In addition to donating money, people can practice philanthropy by giving this valuable resource through volunteering.
What is their time?
Young people often have this type of firsthand knowledge about challenges affecting their schools, neighborhoods, and peers.
What is lived experience?
In 2018, YCI students identified four core program values. Name at least three.
What are diversity, compromise, leadership, and friendship? (Accept any three.)
his Massachusetts nonprofit helps children in foster care participate in activities such as sports, music lessons, and school events by funding opportunities they might otherwise miss.
What is Rise Above Foundation?
Greater Worcester Community Foundation serves this many cities and towns throughout Worcester County.
What is 60?
This term refers to money awarded to a nonprofit organization to support a specific program, project, or community need.
What is a grant?
When reviewing grant applications, YCI students should consider the opinions and experiences of these individuals, who are directly affected by the issues a nonprofit is trying to address.
Who are community members (or people directly impacted by the issue)?
During YCI grantmaking discussions, students work toward a decision everyone can support, even when they have different opinions. This process is called...
What is consensus building?
This Worcester organization supports young men affected by incarceration and gang involvement through mentorship, workforce development, and opportunities to build a positive future.
What is Legendary Legacies?
In addition to awarding grants to nonprofits, Greater Worcester Community Foundation provides this type of financial assistance to help students pursue higher education.
What are scholarships?
Before awarding funding, philanthropists often examine a nonprofit's mission, goals, budget, and potential community impact through this process.
What is grant application review (or grant evaluation)?
This approach to decision-making gives young people meaningful authority and responsibility rather than simply asking for their opinions.
What is youth empowerment? (Accept youth-led decision-making.)
YCI challenges traditional philanthropy by giving young people, rather than only adult funders, this important responsibility.
What is the power to make grant funding decisions? (Accept deciding which nonprofits receive grants and how much funding they receive.)
This Worcester performing arts organization developed the Worcester Youth Speak Honestly (WYSH) Project, which gives young people an opportunity to create and perform original theater based on their lived experiences.
What is the Worcester Center for Performing Arts (The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory)?
Rather than spending an entire charitable gift immediately, the Foundation can invest it to provide financial support for generations. This type of permanent charitable fund is known as...
What is an endowment (or endowed fund)?
his approach to philanthropy emphasizes sharing decision-making power with people who are most directly affected by the issues being addressed.
What is community-centric philanthropy? (Accept participatory philanthropy or participatory grantmaking.)
This term describes involving community members, including young people, directly in decisions about how charitable funding is distributed.
What is participatory grantmaking?