 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Students4Giving Grants
Western Michigan University will for the second year grant up to $15,000 to nonprofit organizations serving Kalamazoo County. Campus Compact and Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund have granted $5,000 to this project, another $5,000 is coming from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at WMU, and the final $5,000 was given by anonymous donors. Seventeen students enrolled in a seminar in nonprofit leadership and another thirty students from the WMU chapter of the American Humanics Student Organization will be a part of the Students4Giving program.
Western Michigan University Students4Giving (WMUS4G) is a collaborative effort among Western Michigan University students committed to making a positive and lasting impact in the communities where we live and learn. We make small grants to community-based non-profit organizations that address critical economic and social challenges facing Kalamazoo County.
Through our grant-making, we hope to strengthen the relationship between the student body of Western Michigan University, our grantees, and the community they serve.
2010 FUNDING PRIORITIES
During the 2010 funding cycle, grants will be made only to organizations making efforts to:
- strengthen families through parent education programs and/or adequate prenatal care
- develop youth through after school programming with an emphasis on skill building and/or mentoring programs
- alleviate and prevent homelessness through advocacy that works to change the current systemic policies that perpetuate homelessness
- save capacity for existing arts or cultural programming jeopardized by a recent funding shortfall attributable to the current economic downturn
