Youth Service America, or YSA, is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.About Us
YSA website YSA has a reputation for supporting and promoting youth voice,

youth service Youth service refers to non-military, intensive engagement of young people in organized activity that contributes to the local, national, or world community. Youth service is widely recognized and valued by society, with minimal or no compensation ...

, and service-learning through

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, resource sharing, and handing out over $1 million in grants. Steve Culbertson was appointed the President & CEO in 1996.

History

Founded in 1986 with support from the Ford Foundation, YSA’s mission is to expand the impact of the youth service movement with families, communities, schools, corporations, and governments. Founded and led by Roger Landrum and Frank Slobig for its first 10 years, YSA organized the youth service movement that led to the National and Community Service Acts of 1990 and 1993. YSA pioneered National Youth Service Day, New Generation Training Program, Working Group on National Youth Service Policy, National Service Leadership Seminar, Prudential Youth Leadership Institute, Fund for Social Entrepreneurs, and National Service SuperConference.

Programs

Programs include: *Technology
YSA.org
to support the organization's outreach to partners; an
GYSD.org
to support Global Youth Service Day; *

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grants that use a teaching application process to encourage hundreds of high quality, measurable, service-learning projects by young people around the world; *Government relations to encourage an ongoing Federal and State investment in national service programs such as

AmeriCorps AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work prog ...

; * Youth Voice initiative to help young people influence adults and contribute to policies and problems that affect them; *Communications to spread the word to media about young people as assets and resources. YSA has also been a long-time partner supporting the

National Service Learning Conference The National Service-Learning Conference was first held in 1988 to serve as "the largest gathering of youth and practitioners from the service-learning movement" of the United States. The conference is a program of the National Youth Leadership Co ...

, co-sponsored by the

National Youth Leadership Council The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) is a national nonprofit organization located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that promotes service-learning in schools and communities across the United States. Founded in 1983 by Dr. James Kielsmeier, NYLC ...

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External links

Youth Service America
website
Global Youth Service Day
website Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. Youth organizations based in Washington, D.C. Youth empowerment organizations Children's charities based in the United States Social networks for social change Youth-led organizations Organizations established in 1986

History

Programs

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