Special Distinctions
• Governor’s Statewide Youth Council Representative: Emma HallBilsback
• MVRHS Student of the Month: Amoy Anderson, MVYLI co-founder
MVYLI Intensive Week-long Leadership Training Program
• Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development: 2010
• Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development: 2011
Year-Round Programs
• College Prep & Field Trip Program: weekly workshops and three college trips: 2010, 2011
• Job Shadow Day: youth matched with 10 Island businesses: 2011, 2012
• AmeriCorps Community Service project with Trustees of the Conservation
• MVYLI Holiday Party with youth, parents, board members, supporters
• Presented college scholarships to all seven graduating seniors
Leadership Development Opportunities
• Field Trip to Senator John Kerry and Governor Deval Patrick Offices
• Cape Cod & Islands Youth Congress: Anna Hughes & Meagan McDonough
• Future Doctors: developed Cultural Health Presentation
• Food for Justice Field Trip, Boston, December 2010
• MVYLI’s Business Internship: Kelsey Dandaneau, Fall-Winter, 2010
• MVYLI Visioneers designed Youth Leadership Summit 2011
• Walter Cronkite Award Recipients: Chris Pitt (2010) and Meagan McDonough (2011)
• MVYLI volunteers at Voices of Obama event and fundraiser, August 2011
MVYLI Youth Presentations
• Annual Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony: 2010 & 2011
Emma HallBilsback, MVYLI Sustainable Vineyard Map
Meagan McDonough, Walter Cronkite Award Winner 2011
• MVRHS Student of the Month: presentation to MVRHS School Board: Amoy Anderson
• Bioneers-by-the-Bay Conference, October 2010 & 2100
• Cape & Islands Youth Summit, May 2011
• MVYLI Youth Summit presentations made by youth on each of the projects during year-round program
• NAACP Juneteenth Conference: Cultural Health Presentation, June 2011
Special Project: Sustainable Vineyard Map & 2020 Report = MVYLI Vision for their Future
• Sustainable Vineyard Team: Emma HallBilsback, Andrew Randall, Eva Faber and Cerina Gordon
• Designed Map in partnership with MV Commission at Youth Leadership Summit: 2010
• Presented to Senator John Kerry and Governor Deval Patrick’s staff, August 2010
• MVYLI youth Zen Hughes and Kelsey Dandeneau featured on ABC-TV City Line, August 2010
• Presentations to Town of Tisbury Selectmen (voted the first Green Community): 2011
• Emma HallBilsback presented MVYLI Map at the 2nd Annual Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony: 2011
• Sustainable Vineyard Map & 2020 Team develop social entrepreneurship project: 2012
MVYLI Media Projects in partnership with MVTV
• Passing The Torch: 50th Anniversary of Amnesty International with Harry Belafonte premiered at MV International Film Festival
• MVYLI’s College Prep & Field Trip Program
• MVYLI’s Job Shadow Day
• Pathways to Success
• Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development: 2010
• Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development: 2011
Letters of Support
• Senator John Kerry
• Governor Deval Patrick
• Superintendent James Weiss
• Steve Nixon, MVRHS Principal
• Mike McCarthy, MVRHS Director of Guidance
• Melinda Loberg, Dukes County Commission
• Mark London, Martha’s Vineyard Commission
• Doris Clark, Event Day Coordination
• Nancy Gardella, MV Chamber of Commerce
• Nancy Cole, MV Museum
• Martha’s Vineyard Community Television
• Sidney Morris, The Farm Institute
• Dr. Noel Brown, President, Friends of the United Nations
• MVYLI Parents
• MVYLI Youth
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2009-2011
Bioneers Return, The High School View, MV Times, November 3, 2011
MVYLI Youth Leaders Connecting for Change, MV Patch, October 26, 2011
Passing the Torch featured at MV International Film Festival, Vineyard Gazette, September 15, 2011
Leadership Key Ingredient for Stone Soup, Vineyard Gazette, July 19, 2011
Cronkite Awards For Student, Filmmaker, Vineyard Gazette, July 15, 2011
Celebrating the Second Annual Walter Cronkite Awards, MV Patch, July 21, 2011
Youth Leadership Summit Yields Sustainable Projects, Vineyard Gazette, July 1, 2011
Vineyard Youth Summit for Sustainable Development Ends a Successful Week, MV Patch, June 26 2011
Nominate Youth Leader: MVYLI seeking delegates to 2011 Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development, MV Patch, April 30, 2011
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Annual Report: Future Doctors for Job Shadow Day, Spring 2011
AmeriCorps Volunteers Digging the Island, Vineyard Gazette, May 13, 2011
AmeriCorps pitches in on Martha’s Vineyard, MV Times, May 12, 2011
Students Come In to Be Shadows For On-the-Job Work Experience, Vineyard Gazette, Feb. 4, 2011
MVYLI Youth To Cape & Islands Youth Congress Summit, MV Times, March 23, 2011
MVYLI College Field Trip, MV Times, October 7, 2010
Vineyard Youth: Connecting for Change at Bioneers By the Bay Conference
MV Times, Gazette, November 12, 2010
Celebrating Walter Cronkite, MV Times, August 5, 2010
Walter Cronkite Tribute Rewards Future Leaders, Vineyard Gazette, July 20, 2010
Generation Green Gathers for Summit, Vineyard Gazette, July 2, 2010
Sustaining Life Starting Young: It Takes a Whole Village, MV Times, April 29, 2010
Honoring the Island’s Leaders, Inspiring Next Generation, May 29
Sustainability Summit Youth Delegates Named, Vineyard Gazette, May 14, 2010
Menemsha Inn Hosts Vineyard Youth Summit, Vineyard Gazette, April 30, 2010
Community Support
Island Support: received 75 in-kind sponsors
Seasonal Residents and Off-Island Support: received grants for projects, staff and operations