YNAPP offers grants for up to $1,250 for youth to create and implement neighborhood-based service learning projects of their own design. Youth are project leaders and work towards ways to make changes in their neighborhoods and throughout the community based on their ideas and their vision for their neighborhood.
PURPOSE:
• encourages youth to take ownership of their neighborhoods and work with adults and local businesses to make it a better place to live
• gives them the opportunity to participate in the betterment of their communities
• taps youths’ underutilized assets and provides opportunities, resources, funds, and guidance
• enables youth to become involved in their communities by helping to improve their neighborhoods
ELIGIBILITY:
• Youth participants between ages of 7 and 18 (from neighborhood associations, social organizations, religious groups, educational institutions, etc.) are eligible to apply for YNAPP funding.
• Any property valued at $500.00 or more must be inventoried and must be accounted for at the end of the program year.