HYP Fund Grant Recipients
Children’s Advocacy Center
The HYP grant is funding specialized training for clinical staff at CAC who serve sexually abused and traumatized children. With the training, staff can submit evidence of child sexual abuse as well as child physical abuse injuries in court cases, helping prosecution and medical staff serve our community.
READ Ottawa
With HYP’s 2021 grant, R.E.A.D Ottawa is expanding one-on-one tutoring programs by training additional volunteers, and equipping them with training and workbook materials. Adult ESL and Basic Literacy students are among those being served in the Holland/Zeeland area.
Latin Americans United for Progress
HYP’s 2021 grant supports LAUP’s free adult and youth education programming. With the funds, LAUP is launching a Leadership Academy this summer designed to increase the rate at which students graduate from a post-secondary institution with workshops, seminars, and peer supports. The new program strengthens LAUP’s existing efforts to support students to develop into well-rounded and engaged citizens, and increase college enrollment.
Holland Museum
HYP’s 2021 grant funds a paid summer internship position for a West Michigan high-school student. This STEAM-focused opportunity helps develop local leadership and innovation, and enhances Holland Museum’s ability to attract and more equitably compensate a young future Holland-area leader. The internship supports the Spark!Lab Smithsonian exhibit, which features a hands-on approach to invention, collaboration, and innovation focused experiences, building on West Michigan’s strong history of invention and innovation.
Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates
LIA is the only organization working to meet the need for high quality, low cost immigration services in Ottawa County. To keep up with demand, LIA will use the 2021 HYP grant funds to expand the Legal Services Program through a paid internship. Experience in the non-profit law sector is invaluable for future West Michigan lawyers. A paid internship will make it more possible for promising and highly qualified students, regardless of their financial resources, to gain experience in immigration law at LIA.
Past HYP Fund Grants
2019
Special Olympics Michigan - $2,500
Neighbors Plus - $1,515
Children's Advocacy Center - $1,475
Saugatuck Center for the Arts - $1,000
2018
Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year Award
Step Up Summer Camp
West Coast Leadership Scholarship
2017
Culture Works Youth Advisory Council
Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance Calling All Colors
West Coast Leadership Scholarship
2016
Good Samaritan Ministries Circles program - Circles National Conference Attendance (2016)
Holland Rescue Mission's Gateway Center - Gateway Academy (2016)
Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway - Internship Program (2016)
Wet Feet/ACTS - Technology upgrades for student job applications/GED completion (2015)
West Coast Leadership Scholarship
2015
Kids' Food Basket - Internship Program (2015)
Hope College's Center for Faithful Leadership - Leadership Apprentice program (2015)
Latin Americans United for Progress - Adelante! Youth Leadership Development program - college visits (2015)
West Coast Leadership Scholarship