The 2025 -26 YSCF Youth Action Board’s area of focus is to provide supplies for youth, including hygiene products,  nutritious food, and supplies for learning to the youth in the community of Yellow Springs and Miami Township.

The Youth Action Board believes that access to basic and necessary human needs like nutritious food, proper hygiene care, and supplies for learning should not be restricted by one’s socio-economic status, race, identity, mobility, or any other possible discriminating factor. Young people in the community struggle to obtain feminine, cleansing, and care products consistently at school, in town, and in their homes. The same goes for finding fresh, nutritious, and affordable food, and supplies for youth to learn and thrive. We believe continued support for this can increase our youth’s capacity to thrive physically, intellectually, and emotionally into adulthood.

We invite all local nonprofits to apply for this grant with a new project or extend a current project that the YSCF Youth Action Board will help fund up to $10,000 to assist in providing support for accessible nutritious food to the youth of Yellow Springs and Miami Township.

The 2025 Youth Action Board awarded three directed grants of over $11,000 each (matched 2:1 by YSCF Board) toward food security-access to nutritious food for 1)Tom’s Coupons for area youth distributed by YS Schools guidance counselors, 2) Food2Go weekend food bags, and 3)The Community Kitchen Project for appliances for the updated kitchen.

The 2024 Youth Action Board awarded a directed grant of $7,750 to the Community Kitchen Project, housed at the First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs. This centrally located kitchen will help feed youth and families in the community on an ongoing basis through the work of Who’s Hungry, The Beloved Community Project, among other free meal organizations serving the needs of our community.

The 2023 Youth Action Board decided to award a directed grant of $6,600 to the Yellow Springs Schools in support of extending days of mental health care from 2 full days in 2022-23, to 4 full days in 2023-24 at both buildings. The Yellow Springs Schools had already budgeted expanding days for mental health professionals to serve our youth in the 2023-24 school year to 3.5 days, and with the help of the Youth Action Board and matching funds from YSCF, the schools contracted 4 full days for both school buildings.

The 2022 Youth Action Board awarded two grants of $4,400 to Feminist Health Fund for over 400 hygiene kits, and Florence Randolph, Community Outreach, YSPD for food support (outside of pantries) and housing support for youth.

The 2021 Youth Action Board Grant of $2,000 was awarded to Agraria for the Youth Foraging Garden.