Youth Philanthropy

Youth Philanthropy Alliance
In late 2000, the Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth was invited by several private funders and the Clinton White House to help launch a national effort to promote youth philanthropy. Through the Youth Philanthropy Alliance:

• The Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth is working with a national advisory group to assemble a youth philanthropy best practices resource that will make available information on youth grantmaking program models, curricula, training, community assessment, evaluation methods and TA providers. Building on already existing resources and youth philanthropy intermediaries, this activity will lead to a product that will highlight and describe practices in the field, provide a framework for considering options, and steer users to available resources. This information will be made available in both written and web-based formats and is expected to be available in early 2002.
  
  
• Pending funding from several national foundations, youth philanthropy initiatives will be established in several regions of the country – selected by the funders – creating or expanding dozens of youth-led philanthropy programs in each region to help build a culture of youth engagement in giving. The first regional initiative is being launched in 2001 in the Washington, D.C. area.

The Coalition gratefully acknowledges grant support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman, Charles Stewart Mott, and David and Lucile Packard foundations and America Online.