NORWICH — The Chenango Youth Philanthropy Council (CYPC) will be hosting their kickoff event on Thursday, October 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus.

The CYPC is made up of students in the Norwich, Sherburne-Earlville, and Unadilla Valley School Districts. Each year the three groups meet for a kickoff event in the fall.

"[It brings] the students together as one group to go over the focus of the council as a whole, and then we’re having some guest speakers come in to talk about their philanthropy projects that they do," explained CYPC Coordinator Anna Natoli. "Then I have the recipients from last year who received our grant money, so they can explain to the students how they ended up using the funds that we gave them."