Youth Development
Improve Residents’ Access to Quality Learning and Youth Development Resources
Schools are a defining factor in any community’s ability to improve and thrive. Building on its work with charter school facilities, LISC has expanded its focus, helping organizations work with school districts, parent-teacher groups, and youth development and after-school programs in an effort to transform local education into a hallmark of community improvement.
Here is a sample of projects done under this initiative during the previous two years.
Project Name: Boys and Girls Club
Project Year: 2008
Project Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Non-Profit Partner: Douglass -Community Association
-1,300 square feet after school & weekend drop-in center for the youth living in the Northside neighborhood.
Project Name: KIDBiz
Project Year: 2008
Project Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Non-Profit Partner: Minority Business Alliance
-75 youth participated in entrepreneurial training.
Project Name: Safe Routes to School
Project Year: 2009
Project Location: Statewide
Non-Profit Partner: MSHDA
-LISC and MSHDA has partnered to provide AmeriCorps members for each of the 7 Cities of Promise to help with the Safe Routes to School program.