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Growing a Dream with Friends for Change

Katie and volunteers at her 2010 Global Youth Service Day project; she received a YSA Disney Friends for Change grant to help fund her project.

Katie Stagliano founded Katie’s Krops when she was 9 years-old. Katie's Krops is an organization that starts and maintains vegetable gardens of all sizes and donates the harvest to help feed people in need, read more

A Life Changing Winter Break

Melanie (left); Angela, the president of a women's community group; and Kate Harvey, project co-lead in the Dominican Republic.

Melanie Kiernan is the Chair of the Executive Board for the Coalition of Campus YMCAs (CCY). CCY is a national movement of campus YMCA’s student led service programs. She is also a member of YSA’s Youth Council. read more

Kids Feeding Kids

Daniel getting ready for one of his Kids Feeding Kids bake sales.

Daniel Feldman is co-founder of the youth volunteer group, Peer Partners and also a youth member of Youth Service America's Board of Directors. read more

Out With the Old, In With the New? Not This Year

Taban delivering soups and sandwiches during Thanksgiving to the disabled and low-income living in my community

Taban Flores is a member of YSA’s youth council and president of the Ohio state Family Career and Community Leaders of America read more

Greetings from Hawaii: A STEMester of Service Kick-off

Lani Bowman's class having fun while working on their STEMester of Service project.

Funded by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, STEMester of Service incorporates YSA’s semester-long service-learning Semester of Service read more

The Answer is Youth!

Charles (right corner) with other YSA youth council members at the Fall youth council retreat.

Charles is a member of YSA's youth council and Founder & CEO of Greening Forward, a youth-led environmental advocacy organization that works to involve schools, communities, and workplaces in the green movement.

At this moment, there are more young people in the world than there was ever before in history. read more

Ten-Dollar Charity

This holiday season, just like every other holiday season past, we are encouraged to open our wallets and give a little to charity.  Now, I will be the first to say that money won’t solve everything and community service is the preferred way to go but I just wanted to leave you with a little thought this holiday – 10-dollar charity. read more

March of Dimes Keeps Future Generations Healthy

Taylor (right) volunteering for March of Dimes in Washington, DC

Taylor is a member of YSA's youth council and a youth volunteer with March of Dimes. She shares her personal reason for supporting the March of Dimes and easy tips she learned from the organization on how to stay healthy:  read more

Random Acts of Service

Arielle Dixon is a member of the 2010-2011 YSA Youth Council. She is currently a junior public relations major and psychology minor at Howard University in Washington, DC and also a member of the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. read more

New City, New People, and Service

Race for Hope DC 2010

Erica Bail was the Communications Assistant for YSA during Global Youth Service Day 2010 planning in April. read more

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