TCAP Receives Grant from YSU

Article provided by Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies Breaking News from Ohio's Poverty Fighting Network's May 11, 2011newsletter.


Trumbull Community Action Program's youth enrichment services program will receive $4,500 from the Youngstown State University Center for Nonprofit Leadership through the Pay It Forward Program.

Pay It Forward helps students learn how to be engaged citizens and to understand the important role philanthropy plays in the health of local communities. Students in three courses had a total of $13,500 to award to regional nonprofit organizations. The students received 52 requests totaling more than $283,000.

The Youth Enrichment Services Program provides Trumbull County students ages 8 to 13 with a safe place to go after school Monday through Thursday, according to Human Resources Director Nick Jennings. Activities are arranged, snacks are provided and the students can use the computer lab and gym. The program is free for families that qualify and currently sees between 13 and 20 students daily, Jennings said.

Pay It Forward is an academic student philanthropy project sponsored by the Ohio Campus Compact. Its purpose is to develop a new generation of philanthropists through a course-based, service-learning environment that engages college students in hands-on philanthropy, grant making and service while providing donations to nonprofits.
 

                             Pictured left to right: James Davenport, Laura J. McCaskey Director of the

                                             Center for Nonprofit Leadership, and Matt Tenney