YIP Update 2023

The 2022-23 YIP Committee was comprised of six students: Eva Buhay, Birkley Ross, Haley Stevenson, Vada Andrelunas, Alayna Boulet and Elizabeth Van Linden under the leadership and advisement of LDBSS Principal, Kim Stevenson.

This year’s focus was on fundraising and building up the YIP Fund to allow for continued granting going forward. The group was very engaged and spent the majority of their time developing fundraising activities and are ready to execute them in full force next year. This year, the YIP Committee did some volunteering at the Lac du Bonnet Fish Derby and raised just under $500 in total. The good news is that these students are all coming back next year and will be able to utilize all the ground work done this year to get a good start for fundraising next year.

In the fall, the YIP Committee will start planning the granting side of the process. The YIP group has $5700 to grant in the fall and will be accepting grant requests up to the end of October 2023. Grant approvals will be made in November.

The YIP Committee also plans to do a second granting process in spring 2024 and will release further details next year.