Michigan Youth Appreciation Foundation helps students stay in school, find jobs

Kids in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties are getting a little help from the Michigan Youth Appreciation Foundation. The program has assisted college kids in paying for school and finding jobs. Two things that are very much in demand right now.

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The Michigan Youth Appreciation Foundation has launched a new program in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties aimed at keeping youth in college and helping them find jobs.

The foundation was launched in 1990 to provide partial scholarships of $250 to $1,500 to high school students from the three county area.

Since then, it's given out more than 650 scholarships totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, said Edward Deeb, president and CEO of the Michigan Food and Beverage Association and chairman of the foundation.

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