Meet our 2021 Young Humanitarian Award Winners
2021 College Award Winners $5000 Award Winner Ibrahim Ramazani University of Utah Ibrahim Ramazani is a refugee from Malawi. His family arrived in Utah in 2013. He is currently in his third year of college at the University of Utah
2020-21 Real Life Interns
Real Life Interns dedicate 200 hours each, overseeing lessons and activities at our twelve welcome centers. Their job is to support the Program Director in volunteer and site management, teaching lessons, and helping all involved students develop life and leadership skills. Each Real Life Intern is a high school graduate,
2019 Real Life Scholarship Winners – What are they doing now? Part 2
By: Shelly Burningham Photo credit and initial content provided by: Nick Sokoloff – The New Americans of Salt Lake Abdul -Country of Origin: Afghanistan I am from a place where being alive depends on luck; I am from Afghanistan. The
2019 Real Life Scholarship Winners – What are they doing now?
By: Shelly Burningham Photo credit and initial content provided by: Nick Sokoloff – The New Americans of Salt Lake Ibrahim Ramazani – Country of Origin: Malawi I am a refugee from a Malawi refugee camp. I was born in Burundi,
New Real Life Partner – Umoja Generation
By: Shelly Burningham Youthlinc – Real Life is pleased to announce a new partnership with Umoja Generation. Umoja Generation is a Utah non-profit supporting refugee youth in the Salt Lake area. Fiston, Mwesige, founder and president, organized this program in
The Impacts of Real Life on Jile Tangishaka
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
Donor Profiles
Donor Profile: A. Ray Olpin University Union Building
Thanks to our generous partnership with the A. Ray Olpin University Union Building, any Young Humanitarian finalist committed to attending the University of Utah will receive an additional scholarship from the University Union Student Leader Scholarship Fund. Over the past two years,
Donor Profile: Utah State University
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
Donor Profile: Key Bank
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
Juan Diego Catholic High School Partnership
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
Donor Profile: Synchrony Bank
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
Donor Spotlight: Michel Foundation
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
Donor Profile: Low Family Foundation
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,
Thank you to our Annual Benefit Donors
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
Eccles Foundation
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
Going above and beyond: Merrick Bank takes the meaning of donor to the next level
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
Donor Profile – Nate Wade Subaru
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