Fifty-three high school seniors, juniors and sophomores will experience the triumphs and challenges of being philanthropists through the Delaware Community Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Boards.

The boards include students from public, private and parochial schools. The foundation gives the New Castle County board $15,000 and the boards of Kent and Sussex counties $10,000 each to award to local charities. The students will then work together to choose a focus area, solicit and review grant applications, conduct site visits and decide how to distribute the money to have the greatest impact.

Grant applications will be available here in early December and will be due in January.

“The Youth Philanthropy Board program does more than give kids the chance to make a difference,” said foundation president and CEO Stuart Comstock-Gay. “It gets them out into the community to experience firsthand the impact their work has on people’s lives.”

The students on the Kent County board are:

• Michael Blose, a senior at Dover High.
• Nick Crawford, a senior at Smyrna High.
• Josh Donophan, a senior at Lake Forest High.
• Brenna Geidel, a senior at Caesar Rodney High.
• Samra Iqbal, a senior at Caesar Rodney High.
• Puiyee Kong, a senior at Caesar Rodney High.
• Justin Lunn, a junior at Lake Forest High.
• Jordyn McFadden, a senior at Smyrna High.
• Melissa Mesidor, a senior at Milford High.
• Mekayla Petion, a junior at Calvary Christian Academy.
• Matthew Sacks, a senior at Milford High.
• Chloe Spinoza, a junior at Dover High.
• Aleah Truitt, a junior at Polytech High.

The students on the New Castle County board are:

• Nana Aboagye, a sophomore at Mount Pleasant High.
• Michaela Acheampong, a sophomore at Howard High.
• Gabriella Adams, a junior at Ursuline Academy.
• Lauren Bolarinwa, a sophomore at Tower Hill School.
• Camryn Brost, a junior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
• Chazz Chamblee, a home-schooled sophomore.
• Ava Courtney, a senior at Archmere Academy.
• Joshua Green, a senior at Tatnall School.
• Samantha Harrington, a junior at St. Georges Technical High.
• Jamie Marshall, a senior at Appoquinimink High School.
• Temitayo Oshatola, a senior at Middletown High.
• Izzy Paris, a senior at St. Andrew’s School.
• Naiya Patel, a junior at Charter School of Wilmington.
• Evan Quigley, a senior at Salesianum School.
• Deepak Rana, a senior at Freire Charter School Wilmington.
• Arnav Sehgal, a junior at St. Andrew’s School.
• Abigail Stone, a senior at Delaware Valley Classical School.
• Avery Zwickert, a senior at St. Mark’s High.

The students on the Sussex County board are:

• Martina Ambrosino, a senior at Seaford High.
• Mirta Angel-Gabriel, a senior at Laurel High.
• Abby Betts, a senior at Cape Henlopen High.
• Vicky Chan, a senior at Indian River High.
• Daykhi Conquest-Carey, a senior at Sussex Central High.
• Claire Eden, a junior at Delmarva Christian High.
• Michael Fagundes-Rocha, a senior at Sussex Central High.
• Christian Hodges, a senior at Delmarva Christian High.
• Taylor Jenkins, a senior at Seaford High.
• Chelsea Littleton, a junior at Laurel High.
• Hussain Mahdi, a senior at Cape Henlopen High.
• McKenna Miller, a senior at Indian River High.
• Rachel Pogwist, a senior at Sussex Technical High.
• Ana Rial, a junior at Sussex Academy.
• Miyah Sow, a junior at Sussex Technical High.
• Rudra Soni, a senior at Delmar High.
• Ashlyn Toppin, a senior at Laurel High.
• Doralynn Ventura-Lopez, a senior at Sussex Academy.
• Johnson Ventura-Lopez, a junior at Sussex Academy.
• Weston Williams, a senior at Greenwood Mennonite School.
• Danielle Young, a junior at Sussex Technical High.
• Kathy Zhang, a senior at Worcester Preparatory School.