“It’s amazing to see kids who don’t know each other create these scenarios,” Broome said. For dates and times as they are announced, visit. Spark City also is in negotiations with several other local entities that would allow for more of the public to see what the museum has to offer. The museum has deals in place with several day cares and year-round preschools as well as Lakewood and Jefferson County Head Start to visit their parking lots throughout the summer. There will be a kitchen, grocery store, orchard, farm and a cafe. The museum will be based on role-playing and simulate adult life for kids age 2-6.
The school bus is a converted Denver Public Schools bus that Spark City bought at auction and will include an artist-painted mural on the side. “Parents are always looking for additional places to take kids.” “We have so many great things - we just want to supplement and complement,” said Spark City Children’s Museum founder Katherine Broome.
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The Golden-based nonprofit is readying a converted school bus to serve as a free mobile museum that can visit different places throughout the county for 17 weeks starting June 20.
The Spark City Children’s Museum has not yet found a home in Jefferson County, but that’s not stopping organizers from hitting the road this summer to bring the museum to children. A panel of local youth leaders will select ten to 12 youth-led or youth-centered grassroots organizations in each region, creating a cohort of youth-led organizations building healthier communities and healthier futures for themselves.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu In partnership with the Imperative Fund, GFC will launch this round in South Africa, the UK, and the US. Mental Health: GFC is also seeking funding partners for a Spark Fund round focused on the mental health and wellbeing of Black boys and young men. In each of these regions, we will recruit panels of young people, who will award grants to youth-led climate action efforts that are addressing community-level resilience and adaptation work. We are currently seeking funding partners for Spark Fund climate rounds in Latin America, South Asia, and Southern Africa. Up next, the fund plans to launch additional climate resilience rounds in other regions, as well as a round focused on mental health.Ĭlimate: GFC first committed to resourcing youth-led climate resilience initiatives at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting in New York. The Spark Fund will continue to grow, basing its direction on feedback from young leaders around the world. GFC President and CEO John Hecklinger posing for a photo with Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting in New York, where GFC committed to resourcing youth-led climate resilience initiatives through the Spark Fund. Read our ONE-YEAR UPDATE And the Spark Fund FAQs Spark Fund grantees are supporting peacebuilding work at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting to end period poverty in Lesotho building climate resilience in Pakistan protecting Indigenous cultural identity in Mexico and much more. The youth panels in the Spark Fund pilot program selected grantees from 13 countries who work on a wide range of issues, including climate justice, gender equity, disability rights, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and education.
Recruited 40 youth panelists representing 15 countries to serve as decision-makers – 76% of whom were new to making funding decisions.In its first year, the Spark Fund pilot program: The pilot empowered youth panels in the Americas, Europe and Eurasia, South Asia, and Southern Africa to lead a grantmaking process in their regions. Global Fund for Children launched the Spark Fund pilot program in 2021 with financial support from the Avast Foundation. In the Spark Fund pilot program, youth panelists used an innovative pairwise voting platform designed by Shared Nation to review and vote on eligible applications.
The Spark Fund is also experimenting with digital technology to make the grantmaking process more inclusive and efficient. Coupled with flexible funding, this support enables them to experiment, collaborate, and learn. Youth panelists design the grantmaking process, select youth-led and youth-focused grantees, and award funding.Īs grantees, Spark Fund recipients have access to capacity development support and the opportunity to build connections with each other. It places key funding decisions in the hands of young people representing their communities. The Spark Fund is a youth-led fund that invests in youth-led and youth-focused groups tackling important issues such as inequality, climate change, and mental health.
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