Since 1994 CACF has been encouraging the next generation of philanthropists through its Youth Service Award. Each year the Foundation presents its Citizenship Award to one senior from each local high school who has demonstrated active participation in community service, leadership, and academic excellence. The students are then invited to participate in the Youth Service Award Committee for the upcoming school year. The Committee selects an organization best serving the needs of youth in our community to receive a $10,000 award. Since its creation, the Youth Service Award Committee has awarded $150,000 to seventeen community organizations.
The 2009-2010 Committee will meet monthly from September to April to research local organizations, make site visits, evaluate the organizations, select the grant recipient and present the $10,000 check in a special ceremony.
Past recipients of the Youth Service Award grants include:- The Music Resource Center
- UVA Teen Health Center
- The Brittany Hope Bishop Fund
- Blue Ridge English as a Second Language
- Computers 4 Kids
- DePaul Family Services
- Piedmont Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
2009-2010 Youth Service Award participants
St. Anne’s Belfield School
James Mattise
Covenant School
Casey Talley
Albemarle High School
Katharine Sutphen
Charlottesville High School
Irene Newman
Tandem Friends School
Emma Perkinson
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Renaissance School
William Paget-Brown
Western Albemarle High School
Caroline Sampson
Miller School
Baron Fortune
Monticello High School
Erica Watson
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Joe Gieck, Chair
Ann Groh
Holly Hatcher, Director of Programs
Youth Service Award Grant Guidelines
To be awarded to an organization that serves the youth in our community. The selection committee includes Youth Citizenship Award recipients from the senior classes of area high schools, members of the Board of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and distinguished members of the community.
Application Procedure
There is no special form to use in applying for the award; however, requests should be submitted in writing under the organization’s letterhead and signed by its chief executive officer on behalf of the governing board. The following information must be included:
- Evidence of 501 (c)(3) status, I.D. number and copy of most recent Form 990
- Latest financial statement (audited if available)
- Current year’s budget
- List of Board of Directors and staff positions
- Brief description of the organization’s purpose, history, and accomplishments
- List of current programs, including the geographic area and people being served, especially in reference to infants, young children and teen-agers
- Please describe how you would use a special grant of $10,000 to serve youth
Application deadline: November 13, 2009. A student member of the committee may contact the applicant to schedule a site visit.
Award Decision Date: April 2010.
Grants are limited to tax-exempt public charities in the Charlottesville area including the City of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham and Nelson. All schools are ineligible to apply. Nonprofit organizations that have won the YSA award the past three years (2009, 2008, 2007) are not eligible to apply.
Award application should be addressed to:
Youth Service Award Committee
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Post Office Box 1767
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Or delivered to:
114 4th Street, S.E. on the Downtown Mall
For questions regarding the grant application process please contact Holly Hatcher, Director of Programs at (434) 296-1024.