Youth Group Facilitator Guide
Keywords:
Addressing Needs
Demonstration
Determining Focus
Diversity
Equity
Evaluate Impact
Grantmaking
Identifying Needs
Inclusion
Leadership
Service Project
These videos, activities, ideas, toolkits, and discussion starters support a year of youth group, or YAC, engagement. The content may be used in any order.
Youth Group Facilitator Guide
Learning to Give, in partnership with the Council of Michigan Foundations, developed this set of activities to support youth philanthropy knowledge, skills, and action.
We organized the activities based on seven themes that emerged through a survey of Michigan YAC advisors and MCFYP supervisors. Some of the materials were developed in a project called Habits of the Heart: Strengthening the Traditions of Giving and Serving among Youth.
Grantmaking
These videos, activities, and ice breakers help youth learn the basic concepts of and best practices in regard to grantmaking. In addition, a simulation activity provides deeper understanding of the grantmaking process.
Youth Leadership
These videos and activities help youth conduct successful YAC meetings and become empowered leaders. Youth learn how to lead meetings and engage with one another to meet group goals. In addition, they practice speaking on issues that are important to them.
Identify Needs and Determine Focus
Videos and activities help youth discover what they’re passionate about and how those passions connect with community needs. In addition, youth discover the first steps toward serving their passions and supporting their communities.
Service Projects
These issue area toolkits provide ideas for service-learning projects. The toolkits contain information about each issue area to help youth develop service projects that meet community needs.
Understand and Evaluate Impact
Activities and resources to help youth understand the effects that their philanthropic actions have on others. Youth will better understand how, why, and what they can give. In addition, they learn how to evaluate their impact.
Demonstrate Impact
These activities guide youth to creatively inform peers, younger students, and community members of the impact their youth philanthropy group has on the community. In addition, they learn to communicate the good work of their program and introduce opportunities for more youth to get involved.
Diversity Awareness and Inclusion
These activities and discussion prompts guide youth understanding and appreciation of diversity, equity, and inclusion and why awareness is important. In addition, youth learn to be more inclusive of others’ voices in meetings and group settings.