Native Issues
Youth grants
Apr 17, 2025

Springfield students award $10K to support local nonprofits

The Youth Empowerment Project’s Springfield chapter awarded $10,000 to six nonprofits for youth-focused education and community service programs.

Recipients include the American Indian Center of Springfield, which received $2,025 to enhance its Youth Drum Group Program, a cultural initiative promoting Powwow drumming. Other grants support mental health, crisis support, food security, employment training and domestic violence education.

YEP is supported by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and includes students from three area high schools.

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