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Youthlinc is fortunate to have many donors that help us achieve our mission of creating lifetime humanitarians.  Seminal among those is the Michel Foundation.  They began supporting Youthlinc in 2009 and have never stopped.  Cumulatively, over the past 12 years the Michel Foundation has donated approximately $450,000 to Youthlinc!    The Michel Foundation has supported dozens of international construction projects, have funded Legacy Sponsorships, the Young Humanitarian Award

Synchrony Bank has been a major donor and partner for Youthlinc and it’s flagship after-school peer mentoring program, Real Life .  Because of a landmark grant from Synchrony Bank in 2014 and through a wonderful partnership agreement with Promise South Salt Lake, Real Life made a leap from two sites to five during the 2014-2015 year.  With the continued support of Synchrony Bank throughout the years, Real Life now influences 400+ students, 12 Real Life interns, 120 peer ment

By Jordan Taylor Guatemala is home to volcanoes, rainforest, and ancient Mayan sites. There is an endless need and a desire to improve. As one of our closest sites, Guatemala proves that you don’t always need to travel far to find a genuine need and sustainable projects to dig your heels into. Youthlinc has been working in Guatemala since 2012 and is excited to announce our return after a very short-lived break this past year.    In 2014, we became partners with People for Gu

By: Venice Lupus My name is Venice Lupus and I was a part of Fiji July 2019 as a member of the business committee. Almost everyday as a part of the business committee, myself and one other member would teach business seminars to the women of the village. There were 4 different groups of women from the village that we taught about the basics of business and marketing. Myself and another teammate had previously assigned subjects to teach to the women and would conduct a lecture

How does Youthlinc choose a new site? IN-COUNTRY COORDINATORS Youthlinc partners with local NGO’s and Rotary clubs in-country to ensure our work will benefit the overall community in a positive way.  Partners are vetted out and have stellar reputations for their work. SITE VISIT Before Youthlinc sends a team to a country, we send a staff member to conduct an initial evaluation to ensure safety and a positive, mutually beneficial partnership. COUNTRY EVALUATIONS Each year, Yo

By: Jackie Moynihan There are so many amazing organizations in our community that make what we do at Youthlinc possible. Today, we would like to take a minute to highlight one of those organizations, Juan Diego Catholic High School.  Juan Diego has been the generous host of our annual Service Year General Orientation for the past four years. This event marks the beginning of a new adventure for about 500 Service Year participants, both students and adults. The staff at Juan D

By: Brooke Boyd Real Life is Youthlinc’s afterschool Refugee peer to peer mentoring program. Last year I was a Real Life Intern at the Sunnyvale location. Jile was a senior in high school who would come to the after school program. Jile and his family were refugees from Burundi and had spent several years at a refugee camp in Tanzania. Jile and his family had only lived in the United States for a few years when I met him. Not long after Jile and his family made it to the Unit

By: Justin Powell Youthlinc would like to thank Key Bank for supporting our groundbreaking event as a sponsor!  Due to their generosity, all costs associated with the event were covered and all donations made by our donors are going directly to the community center’s construction. Key Bank has been supporting Youthlinc for the past three years and also often helps support the Annual Benefit in a similar fashion.  Key Bank strives to be a partner with the organizations they su

By: Justin Powell Youthlinc and Utah State University have been working together in a variety of ways for the past fifteen years.  Originally students and faculty took part in the Service Year program and dozens of USU students were able to go through our service program and travel abroad.  In 2016, our Executive Director, Justin Powell, and Janis Boettinger, Vice Provost and Director of the Office of Global Engagement, forged a new partnership between Youthlinc and Utah Stat

By: Tong Quang Nam I am Nam. I am writing this to send my great thanks to the organization for helping Buoc village’s residents recover and improve their living standards. As a person who has spent years in Buoc village working and living with the people there, I am very thankful and impressed by Youthlinc's assistance. Last year, after a massive landslide in Buoc village and its surrounding areas, the minority people suffered from seriously detrimental effects in terms of ch

By: Shannon Moss For the past 16 years, Youthlinc has organized a statewide search for Utah’s Young Humanitarian. The goal of this award is to recognize outstanding community engagement and to inspire other people to serve their communities however and wherever they can. There are many scholarships and awards that recognize students for their accomplishments in academics and athletics, but the Young Humanitarian Award is Utah’s largest service scholarship recognizing and cele

By: Jackie Moynihan Youthlinc has called Peru home for the past 15 years thanks to partnerships with our amazing in-country coordinator, Carlos Acosta, the Rotary Club of Iquitos, and countless other community leaders. In order to provide sustainable international humanitarian work in Peru and the other countries we serve, Youthlinc does not stay in one community for more than 3 years. After two years worth of Youthlinc teams and work in Santa Isabel, a small river village ou

Real Life Interns dedicate 200 hours each, overseeing lessons and activities at our twelve welcome centers. Their job is to support...

2021 College Award Winners $5000 Award Winner Ibrahim Ramazani University of Utah Ibrahim Ramazani is a refugee from Malawi. His family...

Team Leader Nate Jones reflects on the 2017-18 Peru July team’s experiences in Pucallpa.  We’ve been having an incredible experience in...

By: Shannon Moss For the past 16 years, Youthlinc has organized a statewide search for Utah’s Young Humanitarian. The goal of this award is to recognize outstanding community engagement and to inspire other people to serve their communities however and wherever they can. There are many scholarships and awards that recognize students for their accomplishments in academics and athletics, but the Young Humanitarian Award is Utah’s largest service scholarship recognizing and cele

By: Justin Powell Youthlinc has been working with various Rotary Clubs in Utah and internationally for the past 20 years.  Much of what...

This month Youthlinc would like to honor and thank the Barker Family Charitable Foundation.  Barker Family Charitable Foundation is a...

Costa Rica Day 1: Body, Mind, Heart, & Soul As described by the Costa Rica Humanitarian Foundation, life is an upward spiral. It starts...