Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes GYSD Grants

In partnership with The Hershey Company and Hershey’s Heartwarming Project, YSA is thrilled to announce the Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes Youth Grants for Youth Service Month & Global Youth Service Day 2025 tasks. This thrilling alternative is on the market for youth changemakers aged 5 to 25 within the U.S. and Canada, who’re keen to guide and have interaction their friends in consciousness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy tasks inside their communities.

About the Grants

Youth might apply for grants of both $250 or $500, relying on the variety of youth volunteers collaborating as venture planners, leaders, and day-of volunteers. Projects that safe $250 grants shall be required to interact not less than 25 different youth as volunteers, whereas $500 grants have a 50-youth volunteer minimal requirement. In whole, $50,000 in grants shall be awarded.

Projects can handle any problem or group want vital to the youth venture leaders and their friends. All proposed tasks ought to contain a various group of youth volunteers from completely different social backgrounds and supply alternatives for these volunteers to create significant connections with friends, caring adults, and group companions, whereas creating social consciousness and relationship abilities.

Application Requirements

To be thought of for a grant, proposed tasks should meet the next standards:

• Youth-designed and youth-led: Projects have to be initiated and managed by youth.
• Timing: Projects should happen throughout Youth Service Month (April 11-May 11, 2025), with some exercise on Global Youth Service Day (April 25-27, 2025) strongly inspired.
• Community Impact: Projects have to be performed in and have an effect on the group the place the youth applicant lives.
• Diverse Participation: Youth candidates should have interaction volunteers from completely different social backgrounds, together with however not restricted to younger individuals of coloration, low-income households, youth with disabilities, youth within the foster care system, youth from army households, youth within the juvenile justice system, immigrants or refugees, and English Language Learners.
• Peer Engagement: Youth candidates should contain their friends as volunteers in all aspects of the proposed venture—from planning and implementation to celebration and recognition.

Application Process

Important Dates:

• Application deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 11:59 pm native time.
• Notification of selections: Late March 2025.
• Orientation for grantees: Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
• Post-project influence report due: Sunday, June 15, 2025.

All youth ages 5-25 within the United States (together with U.S. territories and army bases & DoD colleges) and Canada are eligible to apply.

The strongest functions may have partnerships with group organizations engaged on the problem being addressed and/or begin or develop an ongoing service program. They must also embrace alternatives for relationship-building amongst members and the group each through the venture and as soon as it has been accomplished.

How to Apply

Youth thinking about making use of for the Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes GYSD Grants can submit their functions by means of the site.

Contact Information: For any inquiries, please contact the Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes youth grant administrator Katie Reusch (she/her) at kreusch@ysa.org.

This yr’s grants present a singular alternative for youth volunteers to create significant connections whereas creating important social consciousness and relationship abilities. Let’s encourage younger heroes to make a difference of their communities!

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