Join YAC!

Join YAC, and you’ll work to combat mental health issues, substance use, race discrimination, and other challenges your peers grapple with every day.  You’ll serve your community, not because you got caught spray-painting your high school or egging a teacher’s car, but because you want to. You’ll be a grantmaker who helps dispense tens of thousands of dollars of aid to youth-related projects in Muskegon County—each year­. Interested? We will be recruiting new representatives from local school districts in early spring of 2024. The application will be available at that time.

Youth Advisory Council Membership Application

  • The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is a collective of teen grantmakers who represent 16 Muskegon-area high schools. This team meets monthly to allot over $60,000 to local youth-serving organizations and projects. When YAC isn't grantmaking, it's planning community service projects and site visits to the organizations it funds.

    YAC is currently looking for representatives from the following districts: Fruitport, Holton, Muskegon, Muskegon Heights, Montague, and Oakridge. Once you submit your application, it will be reviewed by the current youth advisory council and you'll be contacted for a 10-minute interview via email. Interviews for the 2024-25 school year will be scheduled for early August. You'll typically know if you've been selected within a week or so of your interview.

    Visit the YAC FAQ to learn more about us. If you have any questions about the application process, please let us know at yac@muskegonfoundation.org.

  • About You

    Tell us a bit about yourself.
  • This may be used to contact you about a membership interview and meeting notices.
  • Please select the high school you attend.
  • What grade will you be in as of the 2021-2022 school year? We do not accept applications from 12th grade students.
  • YAC does not discriminate on the basis of gender identity or expression. In order to track the effectiveness of our recruiting efforts and ensure we consider the needs of all our members, please consider the following optional question.
  • Transgender is an umbrella term that refers to people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. Other identities considered to fall under this umbrella can include non-binary, gender fluid, and genderqueer – as well as many more. Please consider answering this optional question for the reasons stated in the previous question.
    YAC does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity. In order to track the effectiveness of our recruiting efforts and ensure we consider the needs of all our members, please consider the following optional question.
    YAC does not discriminate on the basis of race. In order to track the effectiveness of our recruiting efforts and ensure we consider the needs of all our members, please consider the following optional question.

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    Tell us a bit about your interests, qualities, and opinions.
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