Carly Brown And The Institue For Applied Ecology Awarded $1,000 To Lead A Service-Learning Campaign For Global Youth Service Day
By Christina Wessell
State Farm Companies Foundation Supports Service-Learning Projects in Corvallis, OR and Across America Corvallis, OR– April 15th – Carly Brown, an AmeriCorps member at the Institute for Applied Ecology and in schools throughout the Corvallis area, will receive a $1,000 award to launch a service-learning project for Global Youth Service Day on April 25, 2008.  Carly is one of 100 State Farm® Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award winners chosen by Youth Service America and funded by State Farm Companies Foundation. On April 25, 2008, students from Lincoln Middle School and the Corvallis Waldorf School will reintroduce Nelson’s checkermallow, an endangered plant, at the Owen’s Farm restoration site in Corvallis. Students have been working since the fall to grow these plants with guidance from conservation biologists at the Institute for Applied Ecology. The students have put a tremendous amount of work in to the restoration site to prepare for the checkermallow outplantings and other restoration efforts on the site. Students, parents, and volunteers will join at Owen’s Farm to transplant these special plants, each armed with a shovel to create a welcoming home for their endangered plant. Following the planting, students and volunteers will convene at a Restoration Celebration on the site, where their hard work will be rewarded with refreshments and native plants for each student to take home! “The State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning grant winners demonstrate unprecedented global caring and initiative, showing the world that young people can be leaders today, not in some distant tomorrow,” says Steve Culbertson, president and CEO of Youth Service America. “By combining the dynamics of leadership, service and learning, the grant recipients build some of the most valuable skills— academic achievement and workforce readiness.” "State Farm is proud to partner with Youth Service America.  As our partnership has grown so has our respect for YSA’s work. Through its strong leadership, young people around the world are experiencing fundamental necessities of democracy - the ability to serve and give back to their community - while gaining academic and workplace readiness skills that are valued by State Farm. We share with YSA the common belief that our young people are not tomorrow's leaders, they are leaders today,” says Edward B. Rust Jr., Chairman and CEO, State Farm   Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world. Global Youth Service Day is a year-round effort to expand the impact of the youth service movement. The initiative launches new service organizations, policy changes, and sustainable service programs to create a culture of engaged youth. State Farm Companies Foundation is the presenting sponsor. More than 120 national partners and 75 lead agencies throughout the United States organize campaigns. Overseas, national lead agencies in more than 100 countries participate. Youth Service America is a national nonprofit resource center that partners with thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries and is 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, Youth Service America’s mission is to expand the impact of the youth service movement with communities, schools, corporations, and governments. For more information: www.YSA.org. State Farm® insures more cars than any other insurer in North America and is the leading U.S. home insurer. State Farm's 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees serve over 75 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.7 million bank accounts. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No. 31 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit statefarm.com® or in Canada statefarm.ca®. ### Media Contact:    Carly Brown                 Institute for Applied Ecology    541-753-3099                Carly@appliedeco.org
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