Help Shape Ireland’s Future
Young People are being offered a unique opportunity to have a say in shaping and future funding of community responses to major challenges facing them, ranging from climate change, inequality to violence in the home.
The Community Foundation for Ireland working with and supporting more than 5,000 voluntary, community and charitable organisations, is inviting young people to identify issues they want addressed and to input into funding decisions to find solutions.
Applications are now open to join the Youth Advisory Panel at The Foundation which has over the past two-decades invested over €80 million in communities.
Making the call for applications, Rosie McDonagh, Grants Executive with The Community Foundation said:
“One of our missions is to Empower Generations – and that includes young voices. Too often the views of the young people are brushed aside, ignored or even silenced. For over 20-years The Community Foundation and its donors have been allies of all young people, including those marginalised because of their race, social or economic situation or their sexual orientation.
Now we are taking the next step. Young social-changemakers are being invited to outline the issues that are important to them. They will then help identify solutions and make them happen by advising our grant making.
The fact that many young people are emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic feeling the strain of isolation, fears over work and college, as well as getting their heads around big challenges like climate change, the biodiversity crisis and deepening inequality has been well documented.
It is time to respond and we are doing so in a very concrete way.”
Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of The Community Foundation for Ireland added:
“This is a call to action to those who feel they are not being heard. What is on offer is the chance to have a say in our work. You will be asked to identify and call out the issues which are important to you, then work with our grants team to decide what solutions are needed and how they can best be delivered. We look forward to the renewed excitement, energy and passion our youth panel will bring to our work.”
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Closing Date 7th November
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