News - Media Coverage

Click links below to find local stories of student JOY projects

Maine Ahead Magazine November 2011, "JOY Program Teaches Teens About Philanthropy" SEASONED STUDENT PHILANTHROPISTS READY TO START GIVING AGAIN

Bangor Daily News, August 5, 2011 Jumpstart Our Youth Grant supports puppet and story workshop by Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

Kennebec Journal/Waterville Morning Sentinel, Op Ed by Larry Sterrs July 2, 2011: School Based Program Teaches Basics of Philanthropy”

Dexter News: Penquis Velley High School, June 14, 2011 “Jumpstart Our Youth Program spreads the JOY”

WABI –TV: Winslow students donate to Camp Ca Pella, June 27, 2011

Waterville Sentinel, Fri June 17, 2011 community section: ‘Winslow students contribute”

Calais Advertiser: Washington County Community College check presentation, June 1, 2011

Maine Community Foundation e-news Brewer, Camp CaPella, June 21, 2011

Bangor Weekly, May 25, 2011: Brewer High School, Camp CaPella

WLBZ and WCSH TV: Camp CaPella – Brewer High School students May 23, 2011

Bangor Daily News: Greenville Grants Announced, May 16, 2011

Bangor Daily News: Mountain View Development Ctr. grant to Pine Tree Hospice, May 4, 2011

Bangor Daily News: Gardiner High School Award Ceremony , May 13, 2011

Fiddlehead Focus: St. John Valley Technical Ctr., "Students Discover their Cmmunity through Giving", April 14, 2011

Bangor Daily News: Baileyville grant application posting

Village Soup: JOY Program kick-off October 25, 2010

Maine Ahead Magazine:JOY program kicks off third year October 21, 2010

WCSH-6TV/WLBZ-2
July 28, 2010: JMG students at Long Creek development Center award $1000 to Ronald McDonald House, receive foundation brick in recognition.

WCSH-6 TV/WLBZ-2
Don Carrigan covers kick-off of Point Lookout JOY project, Sept. 24, 2008

Bangor Daily News
"Practicing Philanthropy for a Lifelong Commitment," Op-Ed by Larry Steers, Jan. 2, 2009

Southern Forecaster
"The JOY of Giving" (S. Portland, Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth), Jan. 15, 2009

Portland Press Herald
"Portland Students Award $1000 Grants, March 11, 2009

Lincoln County News
"Middle Schoolers Learn How to Choose Grant Recipients", March 11, 2009

AFP Blog

Belfast Maine.org
"Waldo County YMCA awarded Joy Grant"

Bangor Daily News
"Pittsfield Students Look Into their Futures in Project Reach", March 26, 2009

(Waterville) Morning Sentinel
"They Learn by Giving," April 5, 2009

Portland Press Herald
Close to Home: "Exhibit Treads path of Domestic Violence", May 27, 2009

S. Portland Sentry, May 28, 2009
Community News, SPHA Students Award Grants