HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — A High Point nonprofit is working to maintain a summer youth program despite not earning grant funding to support the work.
High Point Community Against Violence Summer Learn and Earn pays teens to do landscaping for people who can’t afford it. The program gives at-risk and otherwise unoccupied kids something to do and teaches them finance and business skills throughout the summer.
But for the summer of 2026, the group did not get the grant money for the program, leaving it in jeopardy. George Steele, CEO of Growth Edge, works with the program and says the demand is there.
‘Kids Are More Important’
“We actually had a total of 24 students that wanted to be involved, but due to the lack of funding that we received this year, we can only take eight,” Steele said.
High Point Community Against Violence CEO Robert Martin said the local grant they earned in the past sustained four days of work for the kids all summer. More than $60,000 was paid to the kids for their work and the mentors for their time…