Child Advocates of Fort Bend earned a $1,500 Leadership of Excellence Award from The George Foundation for their participation and involvement with the Youth in Philanthropy (YIP) Program. The Award was given out at their recent Investment in Youth Luncheon. The 2015 YIP program enabled 162 junior and senior high school students from 23 schools in Fort Bend County to learn the role that volunteering and philanthropy play in building a better community for all.
YIP teams implement volunteer projects with the assistance of local nonprofit organizations, allowing students to discover the important role that the nonprofit sector plays in the community. The partnership between YIP teams and the nonprofit sector also allows students to enter into the philanthropic mode by measuring their new knowledge and experience in volunteering to determine grant awards to be presented to participating nonprofits at the completion of the program. YIP has been in existence since 1997 and has been a community partnership with the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, Fort Bend County school districts, local businesses and the community-at-large.
About Child Advocates of Fort Bend:
Child Advocates of Fort Bend is a non-profit agency dedicated to ending child abuse by providing a voice, healing the hurt, and breaking the cycle of child abuse in Fort Bend County. Through its Court Appointed Special Advocates Program (CASATM), Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) and more than 200 trained community volunteer advocates, Child Advocates improves the lives of more than 400 children each month and has served more than 12,600 children since opening its doors in 1991. Volunteers are needed to help in the agency’s Children’s Advocacy Center and in the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program. For information on volunteering contact Volunteer Services at 281-344-5146.
For information on Youth In Philanthropy contact Dee Koch, Director of Community Engagement for The George Foundation at 281-342-6109 or dkoch@thegeorgefoundation.org.