Students from Robert Clack School Win £3000.00 for the Osborne Partnership

30th June 2009

The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) is a unique program designed to teach secondary school pupils the basic skills of effective giving and to highlight the positive impact they, as young people, can have on their communities.
Pupils worked in small groups to research the needs of their local community and then, using their research, select the grassroots social service charity they believe is best placed to address those needs. They visited their chosen charities and then showcased their charity in a presentation to their peers and an independent panel of judges in a competition. The winning group was awarded £3,000 for the charity they chose to support.
Shelby Osborne headed the winning team of students. When Shelby first met the charity she said "We would love to support the charity's work and hopefully win you the £3000.00 but even if we don’t win we want to help in whatever way we can"

Ian Wall, Project Manager said "The YPI initiative was truly an enlightening project and something that our charity was honoured to be involved in. The commitment that the pupils from Robert Clack School put into their presentations was outstanding. The Osborne Partnership is a relatively small Charity; we rely on continuous support from our local community. We take pride in the work we do with adults with learning disabilities and the training we provide, and to be recognised by the pupils from Robert Clack for our work was heart-warming and reassuring to know that we have support from the younger generation".

The grant will be used to support a new Multi Media CV program that we are going to run to help individual move into employment. The money will help fund the equipment need to produce the multi media CV’s
The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative was launched in Toronto in 2002 by Canadian entrepreneur and life-long community builder Julie Toskan Casale, co-founder of MAC Cosmetics Ltd. and the Toskan Casale Foundation. Julie developed YPI after she became the first Canadian to graduate from The Philanthropy Workshop. YPI is now in one hundred and twenty schools all over Canada, a number that is increasing all the time.