• What is a YAC?
• Membership and Meetings

What is a YAC?

In 1990, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation challenged Michigan community foundations with three goals:

• To ensure that every resident of Michigan would have access to a community foundation 
• To establish permanent youth funds to address the needs of youth

• To involve young people in philanthropy and help train tomorrow's civic leaders

Our Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) was founded in 1992, with students from Rochester and Avondale schools districts. The YAC have represented youth in our area with energy and intelligence. As a result of their efforts, instead of thinking of youth as the problem -- we now see young people as part of the solution.

Membership and Meetings

The Youth Advisory Committee is composed of area students (grades 7 - 12), adult advisors from area high schools and one member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees. YAC recruits and selects new members in May to replace graduating seniors.

YAC meet monthly from September through June. Their role is to represent the needs of youth in the Greater Rochester area, develop practical strategies to addressing these needs, review grant proposals, make recommendations to the Community Foundation for grant awards and encourage other young people to get involved in local philanthropy and volunteerism.

Want to learn more about or consider being a YAC? Check out the YAC brochure for further details.  To submit a grant proposal to the Youth Advisory Committee, use the General Application (Long Form for projects in excess of $1000 and Short Form for projects less than $1000).