The Gratiot County Community Foundation created the Youth Advisory Council (affectionately known as YAC) to engage area youth in community service and philanthropy. Any high school student in Gratiot County is eligible to participate.

The Caleb White Project is a Detroit-based non-profit with a two-fold mission: to help the homeless and less fortunate and to build youth leaders through volunteerism. The goal of the Caleb White Project is to remove judgement and stereotypes and to show young people that they have the power to change the world around them.