Forward Turn Grant

Funder: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties

Forward Turn is a youth-led grantmaking program aimed at enhancing community giving in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. It empowers young individuals to address critical issues such as substance abuse, bullying, and mental health. Funded by the Community Foundation, it encourages projects that promote collaboration and resource leveraging among youth, nonprofits, and local organizations. With a focus on impactful initiatives, Forward Turn prioritizes proposals that are written by youth to foster community involvement and positive lifestyles.

Forward Turn is youth-led charitable grantmaking program that takes a “forward turn” to benefit communities in Fauquier and Loudoun Counties.
Forward Turn is a partner with Youth Advisory Council in Loudoun County and funded by the S. Murray and Mary H.C. Rust Student Philanthropy Project endowment of the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties.
Forward Turn Youth Advisors consider applications that Strengthen Positive Lifestyles, Create United Communities, and Encourage Community Involvement in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. Ideas for grants include initiatives that:

• Address substance abuse and eating disorders in teensTutorial, mentoring, and educational support programs
• Educate teen users about internet safety
• Teach tolerance and anti-bullying to teens
• Improve school attendance, reduce high-school drop out, and improve teen motivation
• Demonstrate road safety and safe driving practices
• Build meaningful links between youth, adults, and/or elderly
• Abate teen pregnancy
• Help with teen hunger, clothing, shelter, and poverty influences
• Bring awareness and helpful programs for teen depression and suicide
• Support programs that protect and preserve our environment
• Grant-making Priorities
• Projects that include collaboration with other youth, groups, churches, or charitable nonprofits
• Projects that leverage additional resources, like volunteer time, in-kind gifts of materials or supplies, or that are matched by other funding sources
• Ideas that have high impact with a small grant
• Proposals written by Youth and for youth

Eligibility

Forward Turn grant applicants may be faith-based programs, government programs, area charities, and schools. While the grant application might be written and prepared by an adult project leader, we do require that a youth volunteer and program participant write a Letter of Endorsement that should be submitted with the grant application. We have a high priority for proposals written by youth.