Youth Philanthropy Initiative

Youth Philanthropy Initiative (YPI)

Philanthropic = promoting the welfare of others

GREATER EXPERIENCES, GREATER MINDS!

Kingussie High is proud to participate in the Youth Philanthropy Initiative. For one term during the Flexible timetable, all of our S2 Pupils will take part in this project.

Course Objectives:

• Introduce young people to philanthropic opportunities and instil philanthropic values

• Encourage young people to become and remain involved in assisting others and their communities

• Provide students with experience both in relating to the charitable community and in making grants to local social service charities

• Ensure young people are exposed to, and understand, the different local social service issues within their community and offer students some first-hand experience with charities, through the research aspect of the course

• Expose students to the various ways they can support charities and provide students with the knowledge and skills to research and investigate charities

• Develop evaluation skills required to measure the effectiveness of social service charities in meeting community needs

• Develop both written and oral skills ·required to deliver research results and support grant-making decisions

• Learn how to judge the merits of proposals, and then allocate funds in support of charities most effectively meeting community needs