Clearwater for Youth Inc

CFY 's Board is committed to serving all underserved youth of Pinellas County to ensure that financial limitations will not be a barrier to any child's access to programming opportunities. CFY's motto is Serving the Youth of Pinellas County where every dollar raised supports and child.
CFY is currently working on an outreach program with service providers in Pinellas County who are involved in within the three pillars of support for CFY. Youth Athletic/Arts Grants, Education and Title One Elementary Water Saftey.
This is done through the facilitation of partnerships and relationship that will further the impact to the youth in the community by ensure resources and awareness are focused within the critical areas of support.
CFY’s Endowment funds 100% of its operating cost so that every dollar raised goes directly to supporting a child.

CFY is ensuring the financial resources are not a barrier for children to be able to participate.
Target 4.2 Equal Access -ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education. CFY is funding these type programs to remove the financial barriers. Additionally CFY is proving funding working as the lead facilitator in partnership with multiple entities to ensure Title One Elementart children are provided access to critical water saftey lessons in grades K-2 as many of these children have financial and transportation barriers to attend traditional swine lessons.
Target 4.3 Equal Access to Technical, Vocational and Higher Education - CFY is providing 1/3 of its annual budget to fund this cause through the RO Jacobson Post Secondary Scholarship Program, and in partnership with the Pinellas Education Foundation provides annual funding to be match with their highly successful Take Stock in Children program. Over the past two years (FY22 and FY23) CFY has provided just over $300,000 to 51 graduating seniors towards their post secondary education. Additional, CFY has provided $100,000 which is then match in support of Take Stock in Children impacting an additional 22 children (11 each year) of middle school age youth who are viewed as having socio economic challenges and deemed unlikely to attend post secondary education. This program mentors these youth and a successful completion of the program, a prepaid 4 year post secondary scholarship will be available to them.
Target 4.4 Increase Relevant Skills for Financial Success - substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship. CFY, between these two efforts, $500,000 for 73 youth of Pinellas County have been invested to assist with their educational journey.

As outlined in the previous section CFY is already funding these initiatives so it has shown its capacity. Our strategic plan show how over the next three fiscal years we will expand the capacity to create event greater impacts.

Target 4.2 is been achieved throughout Pinellas County. Current strategic plan has us expanding into the entire county and facilitation is currently happening to achieve this.
Target 4.3 is being expanded to double CFY's efforts and support in this area by FY25.
Target 4.4 is ongoing and at the core of CFY mission.