Endowment Fund
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Our participants have extraordinary skills, talents and dreams, and we want them to have every opportunity to grow, advance their skills and achieve their educational goals! To help support them in their endeavors, we established an Endowment Fund to provide scholarships to current and former YAP youth and families who are pursuing post-secondary education or training.

Whether the goal is college, a technical certification or other practical endeavors, we provide support for young people to advance their economic opportunities. The scholarships are flexible and, in addition to tuition, can be used to meet concrete needs like books, tools or a computer.

Since its inception in 2004, YAP employees have raised over $2 million, facilitating scholarships for over 300 recipients. In 2014, the fund was renamed the Tom Jeffers Endowment Fund for Continuing Education in honor of YAP's founder.

 
 

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ENDOWMENT PROCEDURES
 

Patty Rosati, Endowment President

 

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All Current or Former
YAP Participants Are Eligible

YAP Endowment Fund scholarships are flexible and can be used for concrete needs that support your education. In addition to tuition, we have paid for books, bought cutlery for a recipient going to culinary school, paid for tools and a tool box for a young person learning a trade, and purchased a computer for a student. Scholarships amounts are typically $1,000.

 

If you have ever been in a YAP program, you are eligible for the scholarship. Parents/caregivers of current or former YAP participants qualify too!

 

You can re-apply and receive scholarships each year of your vocational or educational program at any point in your lifetime.

 

Complete the one-page application and review requirements. Keep in mind that you must first be accepted into a school or training program before you can apply.

 
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FUNDRAISING

YAP Employees are the Biggest Endowment Fund Donors

Through voluntary payroll deductions, employees give annually in order to brighten the futures of our youth. Even more, they organize fundraisers to raise money through basket raffles, golf tournaments, car washes, walk-a-thons, vending machines, cookbooks, and apparel sales.

Stories of Past Recipients

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Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc. Increases Amount of Mostly Staff-Funded Scholarship, Bolstering Participant/Family Support
Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc. Increases Amount of Mostly Staff-Funded Scholarship, Bolstering Participant/Family Support
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 Harrisburg, Pa. – Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc.’s unique mostly employee supported Tom Jeffers Endowment Fund for Continuing Education will begin awarding larger scholarships to program participants and their parents/guardians.In its May meeting, the YAP® Endowment Board voted that beginning July 1, the annual scholarship dollar amount will increase from $1,200 a year to $1,500.“In keeping up with the rising cost of college and trad...

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