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The Irish Youth Foundation are delighted to announce the results of  the Starbucks Realising Potential  programme, an exciting new pilot venture funded by Starbucks which gives young people in Dublin the opportunity to make their ideas for change a reality.

Starbucks awarded financial grants and volunteer hours to teams of young people in Dublin, who had big ideas about how to improve their local communities. These grants will help the groups, whose members are aged between 15 and 19, turn their ideas into real change that will benefit the areas in which they live.

To see the results, and to read more about the successful projects please click here

**Three of the projects that pitched on the day: Belong To, The Mendecity Centre Pigeon Loft and Colouring Clondalkin were selected to go through to a public voting, which will take place in Starbucks stores across Dublin. The project that receives the most customer votes will receive an additional grant of €2,000. Voting will begin in-store on Saturday 21^st August and will continue until Sunday 5^th September.  So make sure you pop in to vote!**

At the moment there are 1,064,000 children (aged 0 to 18) living in this country and while most are happy, healthy and well cared for, there are some that are not....

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