2018 Clifton-Fine Community Fund Newsletter

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Congratulations to our Youth Philanthropy Council of the Northern New York Community Foundation Class of 2022 Executive Committee Officers. Yesterday, the student-led Council held its peer elections for the program year.

We are pleased to announce an incredible slate of young leaders who are charged with guiding the 16-member Council through one of the most thoughtful, deliberative processes to award $25,000 in donor-supported grants to nonprofit organizations whose work strengthens the quality of life in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties.

Romi LaClair, a third-year Council member and senior at South Jefferson High School was elected Council Chair; Anmolika Bolla, a third-year Council member and senior at Congratulations to ou was elected Council Vice Chair; Ella Arnott, a third-year Council member and senior at Congratulations to ou was elected Council Secretary

We are blessed to have such a talented team of students representing Congratulatio, Congratulations to our Y, South Jefferson, and Congratul high schools serving on the Council this year.

The Northern New York Youth Philanthropy Council is made possible by gifts from donors like you who make contributions to the Friends of the Foundation Annual Community Betterment Fund and generous corporate support from Watertown Savings Bank, the Renzi Foodservice Charitable Foundation, and RBC Wealth Management. Thank you for helping prepare the next generation of community leaders and believing in a bright future for our region.

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Congratulations to Romi and all the officers! Proud of you Romi 💕

Congratulations to the officers! Wonderful group!

They are great leaders! Congratulations girls! 🎉

Congratulations officers!❤️

Congratulations to these Leaders; who, undoubtedly, will be future leaders at greater levels!! Another demonstration of the great things the NNYCF provides to all Northern NY Communities!

Congratulations girls ❣️

Congratulations Romi!

Congratulations ladies !!!!

Congrats, Romi!! Oh the places you will go!!

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Congrats to Romi & all the participants! N&P

Congrats girls!!

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Congratulations ladies.

Hooray for Romi, Ammolika and Ella‼️

K.I. LaClair

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Meet Grayson Feisthamel, a 2020-21 eighth grader at Watertown’s Case Middle School. For Grayson, “A community is a group of all kinds of people with different skin colors, races, religions, and sizes. Some people are wealthy, poor, athletic, intelligent, mentally challenged, and disabled.”

“A good community is where all people are living happily together without conflict and everyone has compassion for one another.”

As a 2020-2021 Northern New York Community Foundation Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner, Grayson had a chance to present a grant to Watertown Urban Mission, a nonprofit organization he chose because it embodies his definition of community.

“The Urban Mission offers many different programs that help people who are less fortunate and in need. Some of the programs are Meals on Wheels, Food Pantry, Housing Support, and Dollar Dinners,” he wrote in his winning Youth Giving Challenge essay. “All of these programs being people together as a community and aid in making people’s lives better.”

Grayson recently met with Urban Mission Executive Director Dawn Cole and presented a $500 Youth Giving Challenge grant that will help the organization serve others in need. The grant is supported by donors to the Friends of the Foundation Annual Community Betterment Fund, a partnership with Community Bank, N.A., and a generous gift from an anonymous donor.

Pictured, from left, Dawn Cole, executive director, Watertown Urban Mission; Grayson Feisthamel, 2020-21 Case Middle School eighth grader and Youth Giving Challenge winner; and Grayson’s mother, Paula Feisthamel.

Grayson is one of dozens of thoughtful youths who looked inside his community to recognize an organization that works to improve quality of life in the region. The 2020-2021 Giving Challenge asked students from Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties to explain in an essay what community means to them and to choose a nonprofit that embodies their definition of community. Grayson’s essay is one of 20 chosen from 144 submissions.

Look for more photos and stories behind the 2020-2021 Youth Giving Challenge gifts in the coming weeks.

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