Youth Service America

12/04/2025

YSA is now accepting applications for the 16th Annual Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grants program through January 25, 2026! This year we will award 25 $1,000 project grants to youth changemakers - aged 5 to 25 - to lead awareness, direct service, advocacy, and philanthropic projects around Global Youth Service Day (April 24-26) that focus on ending childhood hunger in their communities. Learn more and apply at: YSA.org/Sodexo

12/04/2025

K-12 Educators - Help your students make hunger projects better and answer the question: If you could give where you live, how would you help end hunger? Join classrooms across the country improving familiar efforts like food drives and backpack programs. Students lead, you guide, and YSA provides simple tools to help you get started. Sign up your class by February 6 at YSA.org/Sodexo

12/02/2025

Our young people need to know they matter and are craving meaning, belonging, purpose, and hope. They want more connections with their peers, caring adults, and community institutions.

Our communities need strong nonprofits and willing volunteers more than ever. Demand for services in health, education, human services, human rights, and the environment is up and funding is down.

Our democracy needs a renewal of a civic spirit where working together for the common good becomes the common opportunity, common expectation, and common experience of every citizen.

As we enter America’s Semiquincentennial year, youth service is a solution to all these needs. Youth participation in volunteering and service, voting and civic engagement, joining and philanthropy, and youth voice and leadership opportunities helps ensure that our young people, our communities, and our democracy thrive.

Help YSA create more opportunities for young people to be connected to and contribute to their communities. Give today at: YSA.org/donate

09/11/2025

BrainPower started off its We Serve to Remember 9/11 Day of Service with an outstanding 191 Community Pantry Pack serving 150+ families with ISD 191 Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District BEST Students (Burnsville Eagan Savage Transition Students). Thank you, , for your support!

BrainPower is sponsored by to help provide food support for those in our community suffering from food insecurity.

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St. Cloud Elementary is lined with 2,977 American flags in remembrance of 9/11, each representing a life lost that day. 🇺🇸 West Orange High School sophomores Lucas and Cooper Tulloch earned a Youth Service America grant to bring this powerful tribute to life and honor the victims through service.

Read more about their project: https://shorturl.at/Kd8In

09/11/2025

has been amazing so far and it continues tonight at the Self-Regional Community Garden.

Feel free to message us here to get your youth involved.

Thank you to our grantors Youth Service America, AmeriCorps and 9/11 Day for making this possible.

09/11/2025

🇺🇸 We Serve to Remember 🇺🇸
This week, we honor the legacy of 9/11 not just in words — but in service. ❤️💪

Across the city, our youth are rising up with compassion, courage, and purpose — and Isabella is leading the way. 👧🎗️

💚 A proud Girl Scout from District 123, Isabella came to the Stuffed Love Food Pantry with a kind heart, helping hands, and a smile that lit up the block. 🌟

But her journey didn’t stop there…

🧵 Isabella went home and hand-sewed 96 Stuffed Love Heart pillows — each one made with love for children in hospitals, shelters, and crisis situations. 💖

Every stitch. Every smile. Every act of kindness.
This is how we remember. This is how we heal. This is how we rise. ✨

🙏 Thank you, Isabella, for reminding us what real service looks like.
You are the heartbeat of this week — and the future of hope. 💫

📍 We Serve to Remember
🗓️ Sept 8–12 | 📦 Food Distributions | ❤️ Tribute Cards | 🧵 Heart Pillows
📬 [email protected]
| ☎️ (872) 248-9912
🔗 ysa.org/campaigns/911day

Youth Service America 9/11 Day

09/11/2025

🇺🇸Thursday, September 11
Fenwick is proud to be an IB World School, and as part of our commitment to developing principled, caring, and active global citizens by joining Youth Service America movement for the 9/11 Day of Service. This Thursday, students will lead service projects that honor local heroes and commemorate the lives impacted by 9/11 through service, creativity, advocacy, and education. Our IB learners are putting their values into action and making a real difference in our community. We encourage all students to wear red, white, and blue to honor those who serve and sacrifice.

Fenwick se enorgullece de ser una Escuela Mundial IB y, como parte de nuestro compromiso de formar ciudadanos globales responsables, solidarios y activos, nuestro campus se une al movimiento de para el Día de Servicio del 11 de septiembre. Esta semana, los estudiantes liderarán proyectos de servicio que honran a los héroes locales y conmemoran las vidas afectadas por el 11 de septiembre a través del servicio, la creatividad, la defensa y la educación. Nuestros estudiantes del IB están poniendo sus valores en acción y marcando una verdadera diferencia en nuestra comunidad. Para mostrar unidad y respeto, animamos a todos los estudiantes a vestir de rojo, blanco y azul para honrar a quienes sirven y se sacri