Starting at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, two staff members and eight youth mentors met up at South Park Middle School to load up and start the long trip to Big Bend National Park for Thanksgiving break. The ride there was, luckily, pretty uneventful and consisted mainly of listening to mix CD’s, sleeping and… Read more »
Author: Becky Meyer
Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving
2016 has been a huge time of growth in Youth Odyssey and we have been so fortunate to see the fruits of our labor finally coming together into a tangible vision. We are now, able to speak more matter of factly about the future of the organization and less “at some point in the future, it… Read more »
Day of Giving Success!
I want to start by giving a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us throughout this Day of Giving process! Without our combined efforts we would not have been able to surpass the match amount and raise $34,133.16! This being Youth Odyssey’s first year on the Day of Giving we weren’t sure what to expect… Read more »
Day of Giving is TODAY!
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, it’s the day when we get to see if all of our efforts have paid off, today is the COASTAL BEND DAY OF GIVING!! That means, at 12am, November 15th Youth Odyssey, along with 44 other nonprofits, began a 24-hour fundraising event to raise as much money as we… Read more »
Day of Giving: Early Donations Can Be Scheduled Today!
November 15th is just a week away and that means that YOU can pre-schedule your donations for the Coastal Bend Day of Giving this week! The process is easy. However, if you aren’t sure how to go about scheduling your donations we are here to help you. You can either donate directly on the organizations… Read more »
Celebrating Birthdays!
Working for a nonprofit is tough sometimes because we are constantly doing multiple things at once; whether it’s fundraising, grant writing, planning trips or participating in festivals, there is always a project. As the expression goes, Youth Odyssey constantly has our hands in a multitude of cookie jars and it’s all to further our mission by… Read more »
I Pledge to Make an Impact
As I’m sure most of you know by now, Youth Odyssey has been chosen for the FIRST TIME to be on the Coastal Bend Day of Giving! It is very exciting for us to be on this 24-hour fundraising blitz because of how many more kids we will able to help and how many more programs… Read more »
Expanding Awareness
Last Friday, Youth Odyssey held a profit share to raise funds for our CCISD school programs. But this profit share wasn’t like any profit share we’d done before. We usually focus on the Corpus Christi area to promote Youth Odyssey and this time we went to College Station, Texas! Some may wonder why we chose to go so… Read more »
CCISD Programs are Back!
Youth Odyssey just finished up its on-site housing programs this week and, starting next week, Youth Odyssey will continue our partnership with the Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD). Starting on next Tuesday, October 11th, Youth Odyssey will begin its after school programs with six middle schools in the coastal bend area. The schedule for… Read more »
Success: From Pilot to Program
iYouth Odyssey is always expanding into new areas of programming when resources are available. This year we had the opportunity to return to Lexington Manor. Lexington used to be one of our regular programs but, once they decided to tear them down and rebuild the complex we had to take a break. Now Lexington is up and running… Read more »
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