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Planning Your Service Project for National & Global Youth Service Day
National & Global Youth Service Day, the largest service event in the world, is April 20-22, 2007. Resources are available to help you plan your service project:
Order or download free planning resources: Planning Tool Kits, Service-Learning Curriculum Guides, posters are available at www.ysa.org/nysd/resource/planning.cfm.
The Planning Tool Kit is a comprehensive guide to help project planners identify their projects, recruit volunteers, generate media attention, raise funds, and more.
The Service-Learning Curriculum Guide contains 8 lessons to develop students' project management skills while planning projects for National & Global Youth Service Day.
Classroom Posters are colorful tools to recruit volunteers and decorate project sites. The back of the poster contains a guide for teachers and activity sheets for students.
Apply for a grant to support your project: Youth Service America is pleased to offer grants to help young people and organizations plan and implement service projects for National & Global Youth Service Day. Current grant opportunities include Disney Minnie Grants (to engage younger children in service), the Capital One Youth Service Fund (for youth-led projects in low/moderate income communities in the metro DC area), and Lion in the House Community Service Grants (for projects addressing pediatric cancer). Visit www.YSA.org/awards for more information.
Purchase T-shirts: National & Global Youth Service Day t-shirts are a great way to highlight your event and thank volunteers. Visit www.ysa.org/nysd/resource/
Register your National & Global Youth Service Day project: Registering your service project enables Youth Service America to highlight your project through our national media campaign.
Visit www.YSA.org/nysd for more information.
For the Media Room: www.YSA.org\news.
To view the U.S. Map of Service Projects for National & Global Youth Service Day 2007: www.YSA.org/map.
Mission of Youth Service America: Youth Service America is a national 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. Founded in 1986, YSA’s mission is to expand the impact of the youth service movement with communities, schools, corporations, and governments. YSA envisions a global culture of engaged youth who are committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership, and achievement.
*19th annual National & Global Youth Service Day events in the United States – www.YSA.org
*8th annual Global Youth Service Day events in more than 115 countries – www.GYSD.org
Questions:
Lynda Bachelor
AmeriCorps Projects Director
Kansas Campus Compact
KSU Foundation Center
2323 Anderson Ave., Ste. 125
Manhattan, KS 66502
785-532-7607
bachelor@ksu.ed
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