Winnipeg Foundation to honour high school students

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WINNIPEG–The Winnipeg Foundation will honour a special group of high school students this evening who spent the past eight months deciding which charitable community organizations would receive foundation funding.
The students are part of the Winnipeg Foundation’s Youth In Philanthropy project — an initiative that allows the students to do what the foundation does but on a smaller scale.
The project set up committees at 22 Winnipeg high schools and the Boys and Girls Club of Winnipeg. Each committee was responsible for the allocation of $5,000 and the students had to decide which groups deserved the funding.
Foundation spokeswoman Kerry Ryan said the student committees determined which area they want to be involved in, then find out which charitable organizations are working in those fields and have submitted grants for funding. Ryan said the students visit the groups and assess the merits of each.
The maximum amount of funding each student committee can allocate to each charitable organization is $1,000.
Tonight, the Winnipeg Foundation will honour the students and the grant recipients at a dinner at Canad Inns Fort Garry, Celebrations Theatre, 1824 Pembina Highway, 7:30 p.m.
Ryan said this year’s student committees allocated a total of $115,741 through 164 grant, to such programs as medical equipment for Siloam Missions, funding artists overcoming mental health challenges at Artbeat Studio, and supply snacks for an after school program for newcomer youth at Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba.
The student allocations are part of the $19.2 million the Winnipeg Foundation provides to community organizations.