(from Philanthropy Journal, by Todd Cohen)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg received $400 to support Walk in My Shoes, a mentoring project created by students at Phillip O'Berry Academy High School to help lower-classmen learn from upper-classmen about navigating the school and its social networks.
And Youth Homes Inc. received $2,500 for Right Start Parent for Life, a program to provide parenting training for pregnant teens in foster care.
Each grant was made by a separate team of high school students who are part of the North Carolina Youth Giving Network, a statewide initiative that this fall will grow to local funds in 16 communities that aim to help young people learn to be philanthropists by teaching them to make grants to programs that serve young people.
