Empowering Youth to Achieve Success | Comcast Newsmakers

Empowering Youth to Achieve Success - 5:15

with Jeffrey Brown, Chair of Uplift Our Youth Foundation

Posted May 23, 2018

Uplift Our Youth Foundation empowers youth to achieve success and live healthy productive lives. We provide funding to smaller and under funded non-profit organizations and programs that directly impact youth in Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton counties. .

Hosted by: Laurel Hess Produced by: Heartland Newsmakers Team

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