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Nate Wade Subaru has been a donor to Youthlinc for more than a decade! They have generously supported the Youthlinc Annual Benefit each year as an event sponsor. Their generosity has allowed that every penny raised that night, including entrance tickets, auction item donations, and opportunity drawing donations, go to support participants on Youthlinc service trips directly.   Not only is Youthlinc incredibly grateful for Nate Wade Subaru’s long-time support of creating lifet

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5 Reasons You Should Start Volunteering Immediately According To Youthlinc Participants It makes you supper happy!! Create friendships with people you serve. Knowing your time is grealy valued. Knowing you're impacting a person's life in a positive way. You build many important and useful skills Communication Teamwork Leadership It always looks great on resumes or college applications Whether it be for a job or college application, community service will make you stand out! I

By: Libbey Hanson The children don’t know what’s coming. That’s the thing that saddens and frustrates Toan Nong, a high school teacher in the small and rural district of Vo Nhai in northeast Vietnam. Beginning with World War II, and continuing 60 years after, the country of Vietnam was defined by war, violence, poverty, and fear. Since the end of the Vietnam War, that definition has slowly shifted to peace, healing, and rebuilding, and today’s youth holds an optimistic vision

By: Brayden Davies People discover Youthlinc in many different ways, some hear stories and experiences from friends and family who have gone on a trip, some see a presentation at school, and others learn about Youthlinc  through their own research. One thing they all have in common, is that they are drawn to Youthlinc because they have a desire to be more actively involved in bettering both their local and global community.    Youthlinc’s mission is to create lifetime humanit

By Shelly Burningham, Real Life Director Real Life is an after-school tutoring and life skills peer mentoring program that partners Youthlinc with a variety of organizations in Salt Lake County. Real Life provides active, practical, after-school programming to teens, tween with refugee or immigrant status in Utah.      Real Life was born through the visionary leadership of Ellie Seaborn, a Youthlinc employee at the time.  She explains, "Four nights a week, I was working with

By Shelly Burningham Accepting applications through March 15, 2020.  Click here  to learn more about the Real Life Scholarship. Over the past few years in Real Life, many students have indicated that they want to go to college and have a decent job, but in reality there are many barriers that hinder them from following through on that dream.  Because of this, Real Life implemented a new college preparation curriculum aimed at preparing high school students for post-secondary

By Jackie Moynihan and Shelly Burningham, Real Life Directors For the past several years, Merrick Bank  has been a tremendous donor and partner for Youthlinc and its flagship after-school peer mentoring program, Real Life . In addition to their financial support of Youthlinc programming, Merrick Bank has also taken part in Real Life curriculum development and scholarship promotion .  Merrick Bank first got involved in Youthlinc during the 2017-2018 Real Life year. After gener

The George S and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation has generously sponsored the Young Humanitarian Award from it's conception in 2005. As our flagship Young Humanitarian donor, they have  generously contributed $132,000 in scholarship funds to service minded high school and college students over the past 15 years. A member of the Eccles Foundation has also been on our Young Humanitarian Award interview panel every year. We are grateful for the George S and Dolores Doré Foundatio

By Jackie Moynihan and Lisa Whittaker Each May, Youthlinc honors outstanding, service-driven high school and college students with the Utah Young Humanitarian Award (YHA) scholarship. With the awarding of our 2020 scholarship winners right around the corner, we decided to check in with our 2012 YHA winner, Lisa Whittaker to see where she is now and how service has made a difference in

The Youthlinc Young Humanitarian Award has been recognizing service-minded Utah high school juniors and seniors and undergraduates students since 2005. Promoting humanitarianism among youth is the reason behind this annual tribute, made possible by the generous donation of the George S. Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the Robert D. Kent Jr Trust, and the Michel Foundation.  As most everyone will recognize this year has been monumental to date.  With COVID-19 we were brought t

Youthlinc is pleased to announce the awarding of five academic scholarships honoring Real Life high school seniors and college students of refugee or immigrant background.  We would like to recognize the Low Family Foundation, the Barker Charitable Foundation and an anonymous donor for their contributions to make this award possible.  In 2020, we awarded one $5,000 winner, one $3,000 winner and three $2,000 winners for a total of $14,000 in college scholarships.   Rock Douka

High School Winners $5000 Winner Taylor Fang Senior at Logan High School Taylor is passionate about sharing technology with girls of diverse backgrounds. She is the founder of Girls Explore Tech (GET), a 7-week series of free, hands-on workshops for local middle-schoolers. She has also independently directed two summer camps with Junior Achievement of Utah over 16 hours. Her efforts over the past three years have directly impacted over 134 Utah girls, and she has dedicated ov

We are proud to announce our 2020 Real Life Scholarship Winner Rock Douka Boulini, Olympus High School Rock is from Brazzaville, Congo.  He and his parents came to the United States as refugees when he was fourteen.  Only a few months later his father passed away.  Rock experienced many difficult hardships as a child.  As a result of his many early life traumas, he developed a learning disability.  Although school has been very difficult for him, he is determined to be strong

We are proud to announce our 2020 High School Young Humanitarian Award Winner Taylor Fang, Logan High School Taylor is passionate about sharing technology with girls of diverse backgrounds. She is the founder of Girls Explore Tech (GET), a 7-week series of free, hands-on workshops for local middle-schoolers. She has also independently directed two summer camps with Junior Achievement of Utah over 16 hours. Her efforts over the past three years have directly impacted over 134

We are proud to announce our 2020 College Young Humanitarian Award Winner Fiston Mwesige, University of Utah Fiston is originally from the Republic Democratic of Congo. He moved to Utah 5 years ago as a refugee with his family. Something that he appreciates about Utah is the supportive culture however the cold and snow he could do without. His experiences volunteering guided him in creating Umoja Generation, an organization that focuses on social issues and refugee youth educ

We at Youthlinc were saddened to hear of the passing of Glen Bowen, a long-time member of the Youthlinc family.  Glen was a multi-time medical mentor, serving in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Madagascar; served on the Board of Directors from 2013-2016; helped us refine and stock our medical bags; got his children involved in Youthlinc, along with many other friends and associates.  He was a force of nature, propelled by his love for others and natural curiosity.  Glen passed away Fe

Youthlinc hosted our Annual Benefit virtually this year. We were overwhelmed with support and contributions. During the program we awarded our 2020 Real Life Scholarhsip Winner , our 2020 Young Humanitarian College and High School Winners .  We announced a new Youthlinc Program, Youthlinc@Home , gave updates on Capital Campaign and Service Year. We celebrated our silent auction winners, and  awarded our Disneyland Opportunity Drawing Winner.  Though we were so sad to not be

Youthlinc would like to give a big THANK YOU to the Low Family Foundation for their support of a variety of projects at Youthlinc. The Low Family Foundation has funded our construction projects in Fiji for the past two years, including helping to establish a computer lab at Mataso Primary School and funding the installation of dozens of bathrooms through the villages ravaged by Cyclone Winston in 2016. They have also supported projects in Cambodia by helping Youthlinc to buil

I’m max bengtzen and me and my family have been involved with Youthlinc for over ten years. We as a family have traveled on eleven trips to six different international service sights as well as served countless hours locally with Youthlinc teams. From the perspective of a seventeen year old this is pretty cool but I didn’t fully realize the impact that Youthlinc had on me and my family until I got the opportunity to serve with Youthlinc personally.  Last summer I had the oppo