“Holiday Magic”

As the holiday season is now in full swing and Christmas is just a few days away and then the New Year will be upon us, we at Youth Odyssey want to wish everyone a Happy and safe holiday season. We know that the holidays can be a love it or hate it situation depending on how... Read more »

Youth Odyssey Birthday Bash!

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 »

New Partnership with Majesty Outdoors!

Youth Odyssey has been making moves to create new partnerships and program-sponsors with other, like-minded, businesses and organizations and we are proud to say that we have created a new, fun and exciting partnership with Majesty Outdoors! What is Majesty Outdoors? you may be asking. Like Youth Odyssey, Majesty Outdoors Foundation is also a 501-c-(3) non-profit... Read more »

Big Bend or Bust: 2016 Thanksgiving Mentor Trip

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 »

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 »