Portland/Multnomah County Youth
Innovation Fund  
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To honor the upcoming 75th anniversary of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
its leaders have invested $5 million dollars to develop youth capacity
to tackle significant community problems. Their newly created Youth
Innovation Fund's primary purpose is to support young people, working
in partnership with community institutions, to create innovations
that address public issues and problems using a service-learning
framework. The young people engaged in service-learning are encouraged
to use "multiple action pathways" for their civic action
projects. These pathways range from providing direct service, to
participating in institutional governance or grant-making roles,
to social entrepreneurship, to organizing and political activism.
Service-learning also offers local youth opportunities to master
the skills of democratic discourse and participation.
Portland /Multnomah County, was chosen as one of eight sites from
a nationwide pool of over 200 proposals to develop this new youth
direct action-oriented civic conversation with a $200,000 two-year
grant. The 20 youth and 5 adult members of this local Youth Innovation
Fund board will help accomplish the goals of the fund by working
with community leaders to support service-learning opportunities
for all county youth. Youth will be supported to acquire skills
for civic and political participation as well as opportunities to
make their own distinctive contributions to the public issues they
deem important.
Board members must commit to serve two-years on the board and solicit
and review applications to the fund from youth across the county
interested in making positive changes in their community. The Board
will ultimately allocate a minimum of $20,000 to 12-20 projects.
The youth in each project will address a public problem and connect
their project experiences to their education.
The Youth Innovation Fund will be guided with the assistance of
the project’s consortium partners: Portland Schools Foundation,
Portland Public Schools, Multnomah County Commission on Children,
Families and Community, Portland State University, and the Mayor’s
Office: City of Portland.
The board maintains open membership and is still seeking adult
members and is especially interested in working with more young
men. For more information on the Youth Innovation Fund please contact:
Joshua Todd
or Johnell Bell:
Youth Innovation Fund Co-Coordinators
Commission on Children, Families & Community
421 SW 6th Avenue, 6th Floor Portland, OR 97204
503.988.5839 (Josh)/ 503.988-4518 (Johnell) 988-5538 (FAX)
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