Youth Philanthropy Committee hosts Connecting Generations video premiere

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

In early February, the Putnam County Youth Philanthropy Committee received a Connecting Generations grant to create a video encouraging intergenerational understanding between senior citizens and today's youth.

A viewing party explaining the project and revealing the video for the first time is being hosted by the committee at Cornerstone Baptist Church on Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m. The community is invited and encouraged to attend. Refreshments will follow the premiere.

With the grant, the Youth Philanthropy Committee developed a plan to create a video bringing together multiple generations. Each committee member interviewed youth and senior citizens in the Putnam County community using a common list of questions. A smaller group of committee members edited the videos to reveal similarities, differences and to encourage meaningful interaction between generations.

The Putnam County Youth Philanthropy Committee was started in 2006 by the Putnam County Community Foundation. Students representing each of the four county high schools and three adults form the committee.

The committee makes grants of up to $500 to youth-led projects in Putnam County and to date has made grants totaling $26,230 since its inception.

Youth Philanthropy Committee members for 2014-15 are Rebecca Moore, Megan Arnold, Taylor Secrest, Chloe Maginity, Ben Gellman, Brad Hayes, Katie Hewitt, Jill McCammack, Cora Neudeck, Madisyn Smith, Jenny Zehner, Mariah Huge, Trae Straziscar, Madison Trout and Vivian Whitaker.

New members for 2015-16 are Lois Cheatham, Adrianna Millican, Braden Pershing, Rose White, Annika Whitlock and Zachary Wilkerson.

The committee received the grant from the Connecting Generations project, which aims to promote a more age-friendly community by bringing into attention the intergenerational thoughts of the citizens in our counties. The Putnam County Youth Philanthropy Committee was among seven youth-led organizations in Indiana that received a $750 grant.

Connecting Generations and other Indiana Philanthropy Alliance age-and-ability-friendly initiatives, including the Lifelong Indiana Coalition, are supported by Grantmakers in Aging's Community AGEnda program. For more information about the Youth Philanthropy program at the Community Foundation, persons may contact Dean Gambill at 653-4978 or dgambill@pcfoundation.org

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