National & Global Youth Service Day

Posted by on January 22, 2007

Plan Your Service Project for National & Global Youth Service Day 2007

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 http://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 eight 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 http://www.YSA.org/awards for more information.

? Register your National & Global Youth Service Day project: Registering your service project at http://www.YSA.org/nysd enables Youth Service America to highlight your project through our national media campaign.