YGA makes grants annually to youth-led projects that address community issues and challenges and that have a positive impact on other youth.
Donor Name: The Winston-Salem Foundation (WSF)
State: North Carolina
County: Forsyth County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/24/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Youth Grantmakers in Action (YGA) of The Winston-Salem Foundation is a diverse group of youth from across Forsyth County that comes together to gain leadership experience, represent teens in their community, voice their opinions, and make grants to youth-directed projects that address community issues and challenges in Forsyth County. YGA is structured to support authentic, working partnerships between young people and adults in designing these community change projects.
Eligible Expenses
- Costs for an event, like costumes, equipment rental, space rental, awards, food, drinks, or music
- Technology
- Materials or supplies like sports equipment, games, books, school supplies or markers
- Postage, printing, copying, or design costs
- Contracted services (e.g. a caterer, guest speaker/instructor, training)
- Transportation costs (e.g. van rental)
- Personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, disinfectant, and hand sanitizer.
Basic Requirements
- Your project must have a positive impact on youth in Forsyth County.
- Your project must be planned by and carried out by youth.
- The majority of your group should be under the age of 18.
- Your project must be completed by August 29, 2025.
- Each group must have an adult ally/advisor and a sponsoring organization. This sponsoring organization can be a community group or school.
- Each group must follow all recommended safety procedures when implementing their project.
Other things foundation wants you to consider:
- Does your project have the potential to grow or make a lasting impact on youth in Forsyth County?
- Have you done research to find out whether or not your project is needed in the community? Has your project been done before, and if so, is there still a need for it?
- Is your project impactful and realistic, especially given projects must be completed by August 31st?
- Do the items in your budget align with the activities you intend to do for your project?
- If your project needs more funding than YGA may be able to grant, do you have other ways to obtain the money you will need to complete the project or will you be able to complete it without additional funding?
For more information, visit TWSF.
