Youth Service America
Youth Service America
1101 15th St., Ste. 200
Washington, DC 20005-5002
Telephone: (202) 296-2992
Contact: Steven A. Culbertson, Pres. and C.E.O.
Fax: (202) 296-4030
URL: www.ysa.org
Purpose: The organization is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people in America, ages 5 to 25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
Some of the programs/partners include:
“Bee" the Change Community Service Grants
This program offers $1,000 to one young person between the ages of 5 to 25 to implement a sustainable community service project that increases literacy in their community.
Disney Friends for Change Grants
Co-awarded with the Disney Company, grants of up to $500 are available to support youth (ages 5-18)-led service projects in their community that focus on making environmentally-friendly changes. Teachers, older youth (ages 18-25), youth leaders, and youth-serving organizations are also eligible to apply, provided that they that engage younger youth in planning and implementing the service. For more information, contact [email protected].
Dollars for Change Grants
Awarded in conjunction with State Farm, five grants of $2,000 each are available for youth-led, semester-long service-learning projects with a service-learning coordinator or educator. Eligible programs must be youth (ages 12 to 25)-led, engaged at least 100 youth volunteers (ages 5 to 25), and demonstrate youth voice and leadership in all aspects of the decision-making process.
Get Ur Good On Grants
This program will award 100 grants of $500 each to projects that address important community needs, such as poverty, education, and environmental sustainability.
Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards
This $2,000 award recognizes two young female social entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 17, whose initiatives serve the common good across the country. Nominations will be welcome from across the country; priority will be given to nominees from West Virginia and metropolitan Washington, DC. Applicants should have her own social enterprise, be supported by contributions of at least $1,000 (cash and/or in-kind), and have a business plan, including an itemized budget. Awardees also receive travel and registration to the organization's Youth Service Institute, serve as a spokesperson for the organization's initiatives, and receive an invitation to serve on the executive board of Girls Helping Girls.
Harris Wofford Awards
Sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation, these awards were created to honor extraordinary achievements in the following three categories: Youth Awards (one youth [ages 12-25], who is a legal resident of the U.S. who demonstrates exemplary commitment and action to involve his or her peers in service, youth voice, service-learning or civic engagement activities, will be honored; the recipient will receive a $500 award for him/herself and $500 to give to a nonprofit of his or her choice to support program activities); Organization Awards (given to a local, state, or national nonprofit organization, foundation, or corporation with a demonstrated record of activity and impact devoted to youth service, youth voice, service-learning, or civic engagement); and Media Awards (given to a media institution or individual member of the media who makes a commitment to the importance of reporting accurately and comprehensively on youth and youth service issues). For more information, contact [email protected].
Lead Agency Program
Lead agencies are organizations across the United States that increase the scope, visibility, and sustainability of Global Youth Service Day by leading city, regional, or statewide service projects. Past lead agencies have been successful in garnering national media attention, developing new partnerships, and engaging elected and public officials in their service and service-learning projects. Lead agencies receive a $2,000 planning grant sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation, and direct assistance and support from the organization to ensure a successful Global Youth Service Day.
Red, White, and Green Climate Change Grant
This program offers $500 to youth between the ages of 15-25 or to organizations that serve youth ages 15-25. Successful applicants will implement a service-learning project about climate change to engage community members and political officers. For more information, visit http://www.redwhiteandgreen.org.
Service Replication Grants
These grants, of $2,000 each, are offered in conjunction with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, to help organizations that have had a successful youth engagement experience to replicate effective practices to organizations in a broader network or coalition without a youth strategy. Successful applicants will involve youth in addressing the world's most pressing social issues, such as climate change, hunger, disease, nutrition, literacy, disaster relief, or poverty. Eligible applicants include local, state, or national organizations that are part of a national network, organization, or broader coalition of organizations and want to replicate their successful youth engagement experience (for youth ages 5-25) throughout that network without a youth strategy, specifically though participation in Global Youth Service Day.
State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant
Co-sponsored by the State Farm Companies Foundation, this program provides grants of up to $1,000 to youth-led community improvement projects across the U.S. and in Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick provinces, Canada. These grants are meant to support teacher and service-learning coordinators in engaging students (ages 5-25) to implement service-learning projects for Global Youth Service Day.
STEMester of Service Grants
This program supports middle-school science teachers or service-learning coordinators in strengthening their classroom practices through service learning, especially for students from disadvantaged circumstances in states with high drop-out rates (Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington). Grants of $5,000 each will be given to teachers or service-learning coordinators; an additional $500 grant will be awarded to an 'ally' located in each school who will support the grantee and help establish a more sustainable program at their school.
UnitedHealth HEROES Program
Awarded in conjunction with UnitedHealthcare, grants of up to $1,000 are available to support youth-led, service-learning community education projects in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida (selected counties only), Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois (Chicagoland and Peoria metropolitan areas), Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (Long Island, New York City, and Syracuse), North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Grants will support teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health profession to implement service-learning projects around childhood obesity, and engage children and youth ages 5-25 as volunteers.
Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants
This initiative, administered in conjunction with the National Education Association, works to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects. During the six-week program period and beyond, they create a groundswell of literacy service in communities across the country. Eligible activities for funding must include a scheduled activity (read-aloud session, trip to the library, book-making, etc.) each week of the project period as part of the proposed service project. Applicants must be age 21 or younger and can be either individuals or groups. Thirty grants of $500 each are awarded annually.
Youth Service America-Youth Venture Program
This program, a joint partnership with Youth Venture, Inc., provides funds to young people across the United States who are interested in starting their own sustainable social ventures. Examples of possible ventures include a youth center designed to keep youth out of trouble with music and art programs; an anti-peer pressure education campaign; a bike repair shop with a vocational training program; or an assembly program touring inner-city schools that combines music with an anti-drug/violence performances.
YouthPower Grants
In partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), grants of up to $1,000 are available to support youth-led service projects. These grants support youth in foster care (ages 5-18) and youth who have recently transitioned out of foster care (ages 19-25) in planning and implementing service projects in their community. Youth-serving organizations that have prior experience in working with youth in the foster care system are eligible to apply, provided that they engage foster youth in planning and implementing a service project. Applications are welcome from organizations in the U.S. only.
YouthRising Grant Program
This program offers $1,000 for organizations to engage high risk and/or gang-involved youth in volunteer service. Eligible organizations must have documented success in prevention/intervention work with high-risk and/or gang-involved youth. Projects should be co-led by youth and adult allies (such as parents, counselors, coaches, teachers, youth leaders, etc.)
1101 15th St., Ste. 200
Washington, DC 20005-5002
Telephone: (202) 296-2992
Contact: Steven A. Culbertson, Pres. and C.E.O.
Fax: (202) 296-4030
URL: www.ysa.org
Purpose: The organization is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people in America, ages 5 to 25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
Some of the programs/partners include:
“Bee" the Change Community Service Grants
This program offers $1,000 to one young person between the ages of 5 to 25 to implement a sustainable community service project that increases literacy in their community.
Disney Friends for Change Grants
Co-awarded with the Disney Company, grants of up to $500 are available to support youth (ages 5-18)-led service projects in their community that focus on making environmentally-friendly changes. Teachers, older youth (ages 18-25), youth leaders, and youth-serving organizations are also eligible to apply, provided that they that engage younger youth in planning and implementing the service. For more information, contact [email protected].
Dollars for Change Grants
Awarded in conjunction with State Farm, five grants of $2,000 each are available for youth-led, semester-long service-learning projects with a service-learning coordinator or educator. Eligible programs must be youth (ages 12 to 25)-led, engaged at least 100 youth volunteers (ages 5 to 25), and demonstrate youth voice and leadership in all aspects of the decision-making process.
Get Ur Good On Grants
This program will award 100 grants of $500 each to projects that address important community needs, such as poverty, education, and environmental sustainability.
Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards
This $2,000 award recognizes two young female social entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 17, whose initiatives serve the common good across the country. Nominations will be welcome from across the country; priority will be given to nominees from West Virginia and metropolitan Washington, DC. Applicants should have her own social enterprise, be supported by contributions of at least $1,000 (cash and/or in-kind), and have a business plan, including an itemized budget. Awardees also receive travel and registration to the organization's Youth Service Institute, serve as a spokesperson for the organization's initiatives, and receive an invitation to serve on the executive board of Girls Helping Girls.
Harris Wofford Awards
Sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation, these awards were created to honor extraordinary achievements in the following three categories: Youth Awards (one youth [ages 12-25], who is a legal resident of the U.S. who demonstrates exemplary commitment and action to involve his or her peers in service, youth voice, service-learning or civic engagement activities, will be honored; the recipient will receive a $500 award for him/herself and $500 to give to a nonprofit of his or her choice to support program activities); Organization Awards (given to a local, state, or national nonprofit organization, foundation, or corporation with a demonstrated record of activity and impact devoted to youth service, youth voice, service-learning, or civic engagement); and Media Awards (given to a media institution or individual member of the media who makes a commitment to the importance of reporting accurately and comprehensively on youth and youth service issues). For more information, contact [email protected].
Lead Agency Program
Lead agencies are organizations across the United States that increase the scope, visibility, and sustainability of Global Youth Service Day by leading city, regional, or statewide service projects. Past lead agencies have been successful in garnering national media attention, developing new partnerships, and engaging elected and public officials in their service and service-learning projects. Lead agencies receive a $2,000 planning grant sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation, and direct assistance and support from the organization to ensure a successful Global Youth Service Day.
Red, White, and Green Climate Change Grant
This program offers $500 to youth between the ages of 15-25 or to organizations that serve youth ages 15-25. Successful applicants will implement a service-learning project about climate change to engage community members and political officers. For more information, visit http://www.redwhiteandgreen.org.
Service Replication Grants
These grants, of $2,000 each, are offered in conjunction with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, to help organizations that have had a successful youth engagement experience to replicate effective practices to organizations in a broader network or coalition without a youth strategy. Successful applicants will involve youth in addressing the world's most pressing social issues, such as climate change, hunger, disease, nutrition, literacy, disaster relief, or poverty. Eligible applicants include local, state, or national organizations that are part of a national network, organization, or broader coalition of organizations and want to replicate their successful youth engagement experience (for youth ages 5-25) throughout that network without a youth strategy, specifically though participation in Global Youth Service Day.
State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant
Co-sponsored by the State Farm Companies Foundation, this program provides grants of up to $1,000 to youth-led community improvement projects across the U.S. and in Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick provinces, Canada. These grants are meant to support teacher and service-learning coordinators in engaging students (ages 5-25) to implement service-learning projects for Global Youth Service Day.
STEMester of Service Grants
This program supports middle-school science teachers or service-learning coordinators in strengthening their classroom practices through service learning, especially for students from disadvantaged circumstances in states with high drop-out rates (Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington). Grants of $5,000 each will be given to teachers or service-learning coordinators; an additional $500 grant will be awarded to an 'ally' located in each school who will support the grantee and help establish a more sustainable program at their school.
UnitedHealth HEROES Program
Awarded in conjunction with UnitedHealthcare, grants of up to $1,000 are available to support youth-led, service-learning community education projects in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida (selected counties only), Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois (Chicagoland and Peoria metropolitan areas), Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (Long Island, New York City, and Syracuse), North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Grants will support teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health profession to implement service-learning projects around childhood obesity, and engage children and youth ages 5-25 as volunteers.
Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants
This initiative, administered in conjunction with the National Education Association, works to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects. During the six-week program period and beyond, they create a groundswell of literacy service in communities across the country. Eligible activities for funding must include a scheduled activity (read-aloud session, trip to the library, book-making, etc.) each week of the project period as part of the proposed service project. Applicants must be age 21 or younger and can be either individuals or groups. Thirty grants of $500 each are awarded annually.
Youth Service America-Youth Venture Program
This program, a joint partnership with Youth Venture, Inc., provides funds to young people across the United States who are interested in starting their own sustainable social ventures. Examples of possible ventures include a youth center designed to keep youth out of trouble with music and art programs; an anti-peer pressure education campaign; a bike repair shop with a vocational training program; or an assembly program touring inner-city schools that combines music with an anti-drug/violence performances.
YouthPower Grants
In partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), grants of up to $1,000 are available to support youth-led service projects. These grants support youth in foster care (ages 5-18) and youth who have recently transitioned out of foster care (ages 19-25) in planning and implementing service projects in their community. Youth-serving organizations that have prior experience in working with youth in the foster care system are eligible to apply, provided that they engage foster youth in planning and implementing a service project. Applications are welcome from organizations in the U.S. only.
YouthRising Grant Program
This program offers $1,000 for organizations to engage high risk and/or gang-involved youth in volunteer service. Eligible organizations must have documented success in prevention/intervention work with high-risk and/or gang-involved youth. Projects should be co-led by youth and adult allies (such as parents, counselors, coaches, teachers, youth leaders, etc.)