YSU students award funding to organizations

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University students have awarded $13,500 to four area nonprofit organizations as part of the “Pay It Forward: Strengthening Communities through Student-Led Philanthropy Initiative.”

YSU’s Center for Nonprofit Leadership, housed in the Williamson College of Business Administration, received the grant funding from the Ohio Campus Compact to participate in the Pay It Forward program. The program helps students learn how to be engaged citizens and to understand the important role philanthropy plays in the health of local communities.

Students in three courses (Basic Public Relations, Nonprofit Leadership and Nonprofit Community Service) each had $4,500 to award to regional nonprofit organizations for a combined total of $13,500.

The regional nonprofit organizations receiving awards are:

Inspiring Minds of Warren: $4,500 for the Learning with a Purpose After-School Program.

Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning County: $2,250 for the launch of a media campaign to promote the Habitat- Mahoning County Building Project.

Etruscan Press of Youngstown: $2,250 to market and promote the Mahoning Valley Youth Diversity Outreach Program to Mahoning Valley community sites and schools.

McDonald Local Schools — Roosevelt Elementary Second Grade: $4,500 for the Being Excited About Reading (B.E.A.R) Bags Literacy Program.

Funding for Pay It Forward is made possible through the Corporation for National and Community Service and Ohio Campus Compact.

For more information on the Pay it Forward grant funding or YSU’s Center for Nonprofit Leadership, call Laura McCaskey at 330-941-1870 or e-mail LJMcCaskey@ysu.edu.