Category: Board of Directors

Youth Odyssey Birthday Bash!

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For those of you who follow our blog posts each week, you may remember us mentioning a Birthday Fiesta Celebration. Well, in February, Youth Odyssey is celebrating our 20th year as a nonprofit serving the at-risk population here in the Coastal Bend. We are so excited to have reached this amazing milestone and we want… Read more »

Day of Giving Success!

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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 »

Celebrating Birthdays!

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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 »

Our Mentors Take Flight in Order to Take the Plunge

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Back in October of last year, we awarded two mentors with the trip of a lifetime as a prize for a couple of essays they wrote. The prize was a trip to Bonaire for a week to get SCUBA certified. The scholarship was awarded through the Ocean Wishes Foundation which teams up with Kids Sea Camp… Read more »

Blast From the Past: Part 1

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Youth Odyssey was founded in 1997 and has been inspiring youth and changing lives ever since. We recently came across a Youth Odyssey member who was active in the program 17 years ago. As one can imagine, this is pretty exciting news for us, so we asked if we could interview him for our blog. Just to… Read more »