Apply Now for Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes GYSD 2023 Grants | | YSA is searching for Heartwarming Young Heroes with creative ideas to foster meaningful connections, promote inclusion, and teach empathy.
With $100, $250, and $500 grant options, all youth ages 5-25 in the United States (including territories and military bases & DoD schools) and Canada are eligible to apply for "miniature-size" family-and-friends projects, "standard size" group/class/club projects, or "king-size" community-wide projects. | | Vice President Joins AmeriCorps CEO for MLK Day Project This MLK Day, we took another step toward Dr. King's dream of building a Beloved Community. Federal leaders and elected officials took action to serve their communities. Learn about some of the projects these leaders joined across the country. Read more content.govdelivery.com | | | | | | Partnership for the Civilian Climate Corps Launches Recently, over 100 cross-sector organizations announced the launch of the Partnership for the Civilian Climate Corps to implement a national service corps to advance climate resilience and mitigation and put youth on pathways to resilience careers. Read more www.serviceyearalliance.org | | | | | | GroMoreGood Grassroots Grant - Deadline: February 10 This grant, brought to you by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and KidsGardening, is designed to bring the life-enhancing benefits of gardens to communities across the United States. In 2023, 160 programs will receive $500 - $1,500 in funding. Read more kidsgardening.org | | | | | | The Civics Center Youth Leadership Programs - Deadline: 2/12 The Civic Center's two biggest youth programs, Future Voters Action Week (applications due 2/12) and Youth Democracy Leaders (applications due 2/19), are back and now accepting applications for spring 2023. There is no cost to attend either program. Read more docs.google.com | | | | | | Everyday Young Hero: Steven Hoffen | Steven Hoffen (14, New York City) is an award-winning documentarian who is especially interested in building a better future for humanity. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ninth grader's debut film, Growing Peace in the Middle East, documents the amazing story of Jewish and Arab women in Israel being brought together through hydroponic farming and sustainability. To date, the short has earned nominations and wins in over 70 categories globally. As a result of the documentary, in 2021, Steven founded Growing Peace Inc., a non-profit organization that is working to help people around the world access food and become self-sufficient. To date, Growing Peace has raised all the funding and installed a hydroponics garden at a food bank in Tel Aviv that helps Eritraean and Sudanese asylum seekers. This garden can produce up to 25,000 servings per year. Growing Peace has also installed a garden at the Ladies of Hope Ministries, and the YM/YWHA of Washington Heights in the Bronx.
Steven's goal is to raise awareness and educate communities about hydroponic gardens. The hydroponics systems that Steven has installed via his non-profit Growing Peace Inc, provides an abundance of healthy fresh food that is especially important in communities that lack local grocery stores or access to fresh produce. Hydroponic gardening can help create food equality and justice and brings communities together, connecting neighbors and creating green spaces.
Each of Steven's projects has a purpose to address food insecurity in underserved communities. At the food bank in Tel Aviv, asylum seekers were hardest hit during the pandemic as they had no social/governmental aid to rely upon. At the YM/YWHA Of Washington Heights, Steven partnered with UJA to install a garden whose produce will feed seniors who are low-income living at Wien House while serving as a tool to educate neighborhood children in the after-school programs about sustainability. He is currently planning to work with other food pantries in NYC to install hydroponic gardens because of the interest in the system at the YM/YHWA of Washington Heights. In addition, Steven will be working with K-5 students, using the hydroponics garden to educate students on sustainability and the environment. | | Meet The 9-Year-Old Boy Who Just Became NY's Poet Laureate Kayden Hern, 9, spoke as poet laureate at the inauguration of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on New Year's Day. He performed a piece he wrote titled, "In My Mind." Kayden said his next poem is for the president. Read more thehill.com | | | | | | M.S. Class Helps Scientists Create a Cooler Place to Play As global temperatures rise, middle school students are learning research skills that could help cool off their school and neighborhood. Read more www.npr.org | | | | | | Volunteering & Civic Life During the Pandemic Virtual Event The event will feature a fireside chat with Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, a research overview, and interactive panel discussion with nonprofit and civic engagement leaders how to move forward together to meet our current challenges. Read more content.govdelivery.com | | | | | | Center Us: The State of Native Youth Report 2022 The Center for Native American Youth has released this report that celebrates and honors Native youth and the issues they care about. It unpacks the realities and experiences that Indigenous people have faced throughout history and continue to today. Read more www.cnay.org | | | | | | | | "Stronger" - Thunderstorm Artis | "See, mama always told me I was meant to be a light in the darkness But I feel like a candle waiting for a flame And she said, Keep on getting stronger, keep on getting wiser, my dear Don't give in to the voices, or succumb to your fear ... Oh, sing with me now for the change I can become Oh, sing with me now for the change has just begun Oh, sing with me now for the change that can be done Oh, sing with me now for the change has just begun." | | Michael Minks, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | |
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