1. Funding your YTP program
Partnerships
Grants
Funding your YTP program
By Debbie Durham and Ramona McCallister

2. Alternative funding sources

3. Presented by Ramona McCallister and Debbie Durham

4. Funding technology
Technology can enrich your program, but it is also expensive.
How can you provide important technology for training in your YTP program?

5. Potential sources Banks Non-profits and community foundations
Local hi-tech companies
The Work Readiness Class at CCHS acquired POS equipment and software from a Facebook grant.

6. Habitat For Humanity Staff working with YTP student
Become acquainted with your community coalitions and local government, such as your chamber of commerce, your County Commissioners, and your city officials. Look for opportunities to work with local non-profits—they can be some of your best partners.
Leverage your resources
Habitat For Humanity Staff working with YTP student

7. Washington Federal Foundation grant
Provided a partnership opportunity between Habitat For Humanity Restore, YTP, and the community

8. Provided one job for YTP student
Provided wages for one student to work for Habitat For Humanity Restore. They were the fiscal agent, and provided liability insurance, payroll, and supervision.
Student was a rehab for Vocational Rehabilitation.
A job assessment provided valuable feedback.

9. Washington Federal Foundation Application link

10. Funding a work readiness class

11. Junior Achievement is a free business education curriculum.
It covers a variety of business and work-related topics.
The curriculum is comprehensive, and they also select a volunteer from the business community to help facilitate the class
Students in Work Readiness class working on a Junior Achievement unit on Collaboration

12. Junior Achievement

13. Transition from school to life Grant
Established by passage of 2013 Legislative's HB3264
Funds distributed by ODE
Pilot program with five districts and a base of $1,500 each
Goal is to provide opportunities to pilot programs in assisting students with disabilities to successfully transition into life after high school

14. Crook County Pilot site (one of five)
The pilot program at Crook County will:
Provide a number of field trips and activities to explore career paths and post-secondary learning facilities.
Provide funds to create information brochures for families
Transition curriculum
Training for staff (YTP conference for transition staff)

15. Links and resources Junior Achievement: JA.org
Oregon Community Foundation:
Washington Federal:
Transition from school to life grant:

16. Malheur ESD/OHS YTP Coordinator Debbie Durham

17. Services to Groups Grant
Funded by Vocational Rehabilitation
Dependent on unused funds statewide at the end of the biennium.
Administration makes that determination
Then contacts branch managers
Who contact field staff

18. Services to Groups Grant
Put together with S2W funds and created a career center.
14 computers
Adjustable work stations (2)
TV, VCR, and Careers video series
1st Services to Groups grant I wrote…

19. Services to Groups Portable coffee cart
Set up in the cafeteria at lunch time
Ran under the Special Education Program
A few years later, the 2nd Services to Groups grant…

20. Meyer Memorial Trust Help with which grant would fit
Meyer Memorial Trust looks for opportunities to invest in people, ideas and efforts that deliver significant social benefits to Oregon 

21. Meyer Memorial Trust Expanded OHS Bistro Coffee machine
Cupboards, cash register
Syrups, cups, lids, etc.

22. OHS Bistro Goal: To teach job skills in a real life setting
Regular class and students earned class credit
As the money started adding up we expanded and also put money back into the school.
Ran for 18 years then the new principal closed it.

23. Maybelle Clark Macdonald foundation
MISSION
To relieve the misfortune and promote the well being of mankind.
Most current - Just received the funds last week.

24. Maybelle Clark Macdonald
GRANT MAKING PRIORITIES:
Grants are made in the following five functional areas:
Cultural arts
Education
Human services
Medical research
Public benefit

25. Maybelle Clark Macdonald Example of their timeline Spring and Fall grant cycle
Grant cycles opens Jan 15
Letter of Inquiry (Feb. 15)
Notified by March 15
Full Grant Application (Ap. 15)
Notified by May 31st

26. Maybelle Clark Macdonald
Combined with the Youth and Innovation Grant
Ontario Transitional Academy
OTA Tiger Shoppe
3 years after the OHS Bistro closed the new principal wanted it opened back up.

27. Maybelle Clark Macdonald Things I have learned
Read everything and read it carefully!
Know the foundations mission
Submitting electronically
Limited wording
Explain in detail
Uploading documents
It’s ok to call and ask questions

28. Maybelle Clark Macdonald Things we addressed
Poverty level
Crime rate
Low graduation rate
Helping them become productive adults who can in turn raise children who are mentally and physically able to access education and living wage jobs.

29. 501 (c) and IRS form 990 Usually schools don’t have this status.
District Office Public Account letter

30. Questions and Answer
Others share their experiences