(Washington, DC) Serve DC announces today the winners of the Freddie Mac Youth Service Grant, sponsored by the Freddie Mac Foundation. Fifty-one youth-led service projects planned for National and Global Youth Service Day, April 20-22, 2007, will be funded. The award amount ranges from $250 to $750. Serve DC received a record number of applicants. Judges scored the grant applications according to the following criteria: meeting the primary goals of National and Global Youth Service Day; involvement of youth in planning, implementation, and evaluation of the project; impact of the project on the community served; strategy to engage youth volunteers and community residents in the project; possessing an adequate, reasonable, and detailed budget and overall quality, effectiveness and originality of the proposed project.
Serve DC is committed to strengthening communities in Washington DC through several programs and initiatives. Winning youth-led projects range from students from George Washington University who will participate in a "Senior Prom" with the members of the senior citizen community near the University, to Howard University’s Jump Start for a Day, and numerous beautification and anti-violence projects.
The 2007 grants were awarded to the following organizations:
$250
- Youth Life Foundation
- Divine Images Network
- Neighbors of Seaton Place
- Chinmaya Mission
- SAFECO (Students Athletes for Educational Opportunities)
- Boys and Girls Club (Eastern Branch)
- E.L. Haynes Public Charter School
- William Doar, Jr PCS for Performing Arts
- Capitol Hill Scouts
- Vision of Hope
- Tennessee Club
- Christian Communities Group Homes
- Creative Cause
- Bell Multicultural High School
- Vietnamese-American Community Service Center
- Newcomer Community Service Center
- Strongtowers Ministry
- Brandywine Street Association
- Charles Hart Middle School
- Anacostia High School
- Kid Power
- FAN (Finhankra Akoma Ntoaso)
$308
- Friendship Public Charter School
$442
- E.L. Haynes Public Charter School