April 2015

You'N-I is on a roll. Partner nonprofit organizations are opening programs to help youth on the streets, volunteers are pitching in, and connections are spreading as the residents of our community join forces. As you learn about the progress the Community Foundation's initiative is making in our community, think about what you can personally do to help a vulnerable young person. 
Will you s pread the word about the television airing of "The Homestretch"? Volunteer to be a mentor or tutor? Talk with your community or church groups about the situation in Reno and Sparks? Contribute to organizations working to help youth on the streets?
Decide what you can do and take action.
YOU'N-I UPDATE
Observations from "This is Homelessness", 48 hours on the Streets

"By the end of the second day a father and young son crossed the street so they wouldn't pass me on the sidewalk"
- Nick Tscheekar, Initiatives Director

Nick Tscheeker leaving the office to begin "This is Homelessness" journey. 
Participants in "This is Homelessness" sleeping near the river.


Watch "The Homestretch" on PBS
A packed house for You'N-I screening of "The Homestretch" at UNR in January
I f you missed the Community Foundation's YOU'N-I Screening of "The Homestretch" in January, here is your chance to view it on television.

Set your DVRs to record
Independent Lens: "The Homestretch" 
KNPB Channel 5 
Sunday, April 19th at 11pm.

 

"An amazing and important film with the potential to change the way we think about the problem of youth homelessness."

- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here 
Or stream it online.
                     
NEWS From YOU'N-I Partner Nonprofit Organizations.
A Safe Place for Runaway and Homeless Youth at the Children's Cabinet.

Here is a way you can help youth on the streets find safety and a path to a stable life from the Children's Cabinet.

The Community Foundation's Initiative, You'N-I supports organizations like the Children's Cabinet that help vulnerable, runaway, homelessness youth and youth aging-out of foster care.
A Safe Place Living Center twill house 15 young people ages 12 to 17 and is being built by Children's Cabinet youth participants in the skills and education program

YouthBuild. 

 

Eddy House YOUth Resource Center Wins Award
The Eddy House YOUth Resource Center received the 2015 "Bringing Respect and Honor to Victims" Outstandng Non-Profit Organization Award from the Alliance for Victim,s Rights. EddyHouse will be recognized at the Crime Victims Rights Candlelight Vigil on Wednesday, 4/22 at 5:30 pm. 
 Keep up with the programs of the Eddy House YOUth Resource Center on Facebook.
Eddy House YOUth Resource Center is on 6th and Record Streets.

       
Thanks to Generous Fundholders Community Foundation Work Continues to Grow
More than $186,750 Awarded from 78 Scholarships  

Community Foundation of Western Nevada scholarships help Nevadans from all corners of the region get and keep the jobs they need to make a fulfilling life for themselves and their families. Scholarships keep our Nevada communities competitive and vibrant.

 

And we are not finished yet... Look for stories and interviews in the May edition with stellar students talking about how a scholarship is changing their life!

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Partnership Grants 2015 Letter of Intent Form Open

These grants are challenge grants up to $15,000. Selected organizations must demonstrate a 1:1 match--primarily from NEW donors--for every dollar requested; grant awards will be announced in early September. Letter of Intent deadline is June 25, 2015. 

Details on nevadafund.org

Email Shawn for questions about applying for a Partnership Grant. [email protected]

Letter of Intent Form  

 
We Are Bound Together.
When you join the Community Foundation, you strengthen your community through charitable giving. You will be connected to the  causes  you care about  today and forever. Together we join forces to make a bigger difference to the  causes you support, to the residents engaged with our community-wide initiatives and  to your family and neighbors. What you can do today affects us now and for generations.

You can work with the Foundation to create a charitable gift that will earn you income, reduce your taxes, or make the most out of property that is no longer working for you.
You can give now or join the Community Foundation Legacy Society, and leave a percentage of your estate to the Foundation as a bequest in your will or trust.

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Editor: Margaret Stewart, Communications Director
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