WINNIPEG – MTS is now accepting applications from youth-serving organizations in Manitoba for the second year of its Future First community grant program.
The company will offer ten $10,000 grants to organizations focused on improving the lives of Manitoba's young people. To qualify for a grant, applicants must identify how their project or program will achieve at least one of the following results for Manitoba youth under the age of 24:
– Enhance knowledge, skills and/or leadership capabilities;
– Develop/acquire skills to make healthy and positive life choices;
– Increase capacity to cope with life's challenges.
Manitobans will once again help select the 10 grant recipients from a list of twenty finalists through an online voting process that will take place in the spring.
"MTS learned about some incredible youth-serving organizations during the inaugural round of MTS Future First grants in 2014," said CEO Jay Forbes, in the news release. "We know there are many more outstanding initiatives connecting youth to opportunity in the province, and we want to help support those projects."
MTS Future First: Connecting Today's Youth to Tomorrow is a multi-faceted community investment program that includes sponsorships, grants, donations, scholarships, employee volunteerism and fundraising programs to help in the advancement of Manitoba youth and reflects MTS's philosophy of investing and giving back to the community.
