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Youth Service America (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. 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.
Youth Service America created the first version of servenet.org in 1998 as a service of AOL. Today, servenet.org is in its fifth generation and is a website that mobilizes and empowers the volunteer service community to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing local communities. Since its inception, servenet.org has enabled millions of youth volunteers to connect with local nonprofits to make a difference in communities throughout America. In 2000, as a part of Global Youth Service Day, Servenet.org expanded into a global resource for the 3.5 million young people, in 155 countries around the world that participate in Global and National Youth Service Day.
www.ysa.org 
iBelong provides consulting, software development, integration, and hosted software solutions to private sector and nonprofit clients. The iBelong technology solutions are built on the proprietary iBelong Networks Platform, which is a hosted, portal network delivering syndicated websites, content management, eCommerce and eDonation management, customer relationship and membership management, event management, communications management, community collaboration, subscriber/customer/member profile, and site hosting and administration.
iBelong Networks partnered with YSA to release the fifth generation of servenet.org in April 2007. The redesigned servenet.org is built on iBelong’s proprietary platform and empowers servenet.org visitors to search for local volunteer service opportunities by location, interests, or skills. The new servenet.org integrates iBelong’s advanced web-based social networking tools such as shared news feeds and real-time news alerts via email, and mobile messaging. The site also features iBelong’s searchable user profile pages, issue-related groups, widgets, maps, and free self-service websites for nonprofit organization.
www.iBelongNetworks.com
As the Presenting Sponsor of National Youth Service Day, State Farm Companies Foundation makes a substantial commitment to the Local Lead Agency program and Youth Service America's service-learning initiatives. This year, the State Farm Companies Foundation supported 100 grants of $1,000 to students, teachers, and service-learning coordinators for National Youth Service Day as well as service-learning grants for a project called Finance Lessons to support youth in understanding of the importance of personal financial education. State Farm also supports the Harris Wofford Awards presentation at the National Service-Learning Conference in the spring. The Harris Wofford Awards recognize extraordinary achievements of an Individual, Institution, and Media organization or member that actively contributes to "Making service and service-learning the common expectation and common experience of every young person in America".
In addition to financial support from State Farm Companies Foundation, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company involves their 96,000+ employees and agents, and their families in local National Youth Service Day events. State Farm's support of service-learning is part of the company's long history of investment in communities and public education. State Farm has integrated National Youth Service Day into advertorials that have appeared in publications, including National Geographic, Parents Magazine, and Parade Magazine.
"Service-learning fulfills State Farm's belief that strong communities begin with strong schools and a community investment in the lives and futures of young people," said Mindy Laub, assistant director, State Farm Companies Foundation. "Through our partnership with Youth Service America, we are helping students develop strong academic skills and supporting our young community leaders."
www.StateFarm.com
As a media partner for National Youth Service Day, Parade Magazine lends its unparalleled outreach to help build awareness about the positive contributions youth make to their communities, etc. Parade Magazine is far and away the largest publication in the United States, with a weekly circulation of 35 million copies.
www.Parade.com
George C. Anderson Photography: Thanks to George C. Anderson Photography for the photographs used in the "Curriculum Connection, Building a New Future".
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