STUDENT GRANT MAKERS

24-25 Youth Philantrophy Program grant makers

Bexley High School juniors and seniors who participated in the Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Program (YPP) this school year, recently made their grant awards. Students learned the ins and outs of philanthropic grantmaking from local nonprofit leaders through a series of “learning lunches” held during the first semester. They used that knowledge to make a total of $3,175 in grants to support needs identified by staff and students within the high school and middle school. YPP grants are funded by the Foundation’s Charlene Morgan Emerging Leaders Endowment 

2025 Youth Philanthropy Grants

$1,000 to provide stipends for high school student leaders to mentor elementary and middle school school band students as part of their summer band camp experience. 

$700 to support Bexleo special effects photography in order to capture and create images of students involved in a variety of extra curricular and co-curricular activities and athletics. 

$575 to purchase felt wall tiles to improve the acoustics and aesthetics in a high school social studies classroom.

$700 to support student-led activities as part of the No Place for Hate initiative at the middle school and high school levels. 

$200 for lunch and refreshments for high school students interested in learning more about how to write and/or provide verbal testimony in a public legislative hearing.