We host the Youth Community Development Team (YCDT) and get a peak at our new Rotary website...thanks to Kent Frese. The Rotary Youth Community Development Team (YCDT), is a program in perpetuity to benefit high school young adults, was developed in celebration of Rotary International's 100th Anniversary and is now in its third year. Mission Statement: To learn the value of Rotary's Service Above Self principles through implementing the importance of philanthropy in their community. CoreValues: Participating youth will develop leadership skills and a philanthropic ethic. Please welcome these students as they explain the program and its impact. Abby Milspaw - Bishop McDevitt Nashonda Lafayette - Sci-Tech LaConteau Williams - Harrisburg High Students follow a curriculum process of understanding community needs, developing grant guidelines, reviewing requests for proposals, agency site visits and project selection, along with learning the skills of fund raising and leadership. Rotary mentors and volunteers from non-profit agencies assist students through this process of learning the values of philanthropy, community service, and leadership skills. Junior and senior level students from the City of Harrisburg schools are accepted into a year long program through an application and recommendation process. Administrators and parents also provide support and encouragement to students. The Rotary Club of Harrisburg and the YCDT are supported by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and Leadership Harrisburg Area. The Foundation for Enhancing is the fiscal administrator of the YCDT operating and endowment fund; while Leadership Harrisburg Area acts as the YCDT program session coordinator. The Rotary YCDT Endowment Fund has been established with a fund raising goal of $500,000.00 by the year 2010. Individuals, companies and foundations are currently being solicited to fund this perpetual endowment, which will assure future grant allocations to be made by the YCDT to community agencies in need.