Youth Attend Conference and win Award

Cadillac & Kellogg for Youth Committee members attended a regional youth conference that was held on the MSU campus from June 26 – 28. While there they participated in training exercises and met other youth committee members from a 3 state area. Miles Kamaloski and Jake Mitchell made a presentation about the $30,000 grant that was made to the YMCA, and based on their presentation the committee placed in the top 5 in the “Great Grants Competition”. In her own words, youth committee member Stella Doering presented her experiences.

Hey everyone, we just got back from the YAC summer leadership conference at MSU! It was a lot of fun! We met new people from all over MI and some from Ohio and Iowa. We went to classes that would help us make our YAC more successful in helping our community. My favorite part was a performance by Kinetic Affect. They are poets who write "slam poetry" about their life experiences. It was very inspiring! Those are only a few of the great activities we participated in. I hope to see more of you there next year! I promise you'll enjoy it! - -Stella Doering

To learn more about the Cadillac & Kellogg for Youth Committee, please visit our website at www.cadillacfoundation.org/yac.html

To learn more about Youth Grantmakers visit: http://www.youthgrantmakers.org/

Student Loan Deadline Approaching

"Qualified" students and potential students who are interested in applying for the Helen and Harvey Pell Student Loan Program need to have their applications turned in to the Foundation by June 30th. For program specifics and an application, potential applicants can call the Foundation offices at 231-775-9911 or visit our website at www.cadillacfoundation.org.

Challenge Day Fund Passes $19,0000 Mark

After community donations of $13,075, and a matching grant of $6,000 from the Foundation, the Challenge Day Pass Through Fund has a new balance of $19,075! Let's keep this momentum going and find ways to raise Funds to keep this program in our schools for the three year target period! This program has the ability to transform lives.

Van Houten Fund Awards Grant

Great news! The Anna Van Houten Memorial Fund has awarded a grant in the amount of $675 to the Challenge Day Pass Through Fund. You can read more about this at our website at www.cadillacfoundation.org.

Westhauser Scholarships Awarded

The Foundation was pleased to award the Sue Westhauser Memorial Scholarship to Jessie Liebler and Maddie Masten at the Senior Breakfast last May.

The Westhauser Scholarship, established in October 2001 in memory of Sue Westhauser, is awarded to students who wish to pursue a career in education.

Jessie Liebler, pictured at left with Foundation Executive Director Linda Kimbel, was awarded a scholarship from this Fund to assist him in his studies in Special Education. Maddie Masten was awarded a scholarship to assist her studies in Elementary Education. We wish them both every success.

Challenge Day Fundraising Update

As promised yesterday, here are the updated totals.

$9,890 has been received by the Foundation for this pass-through Fund.

$4,945 is the 50% match to date from the Foundation. (The Foundation will match 50% of the funds raised with a matching grant of up to a total grant amount of $6,000).

Add the two together and the grand total is $14,835. We are well on our way!

Thank you to a community Angel!

Can you imagine our surprise when we opened the handwritten envelope this afternoon and found a cashiers check for $7,500 made out to the Challenge Day Fund? Astonished, thrilled, and grateful! We inquired at the bank as to who our benefactor is, but our Angel worked very hard to stay anonymous and we do respect that.

However, the foundation would like to use this Blog to say thank you for caring! People like you make us proud to be from such a caring community, and it is because of people like you that our youth will have this program. Thank you.

We will have to do some math, and add this donation to the Fund. Look for an update tomorrow with our new total. Lets keep this momentum going!