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Admission Possible: Admission Possible is a nonprofit organization founded in September of 2000 and dedicated to helping promising, low-income students obtain admission to college.
Alliance for Justice: The Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates.
Alliance for Sustainability: Ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just & humane.
American Friends Service Committee: Quaker values in action
AMIGOS: Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) creates opportunities for young people to excel in leadership roles promoting public health, education and community development.
Amizade: Amizade encourages intercultural exploration and understanding through community-driven volunteer programs and service-learning courses.
Appalachia Service Project: The Appalachia Service Project is a Christian ministry, open to all people, that addresses the housing needs of Central Appalachia.
Appalachia Outreach Mission Projects
Appalshop: Appalshop is dedicated to preserving and cultivating the richness of Appalachian culture. Through a diversity of approaches, Appalshop works for positive social change by disseminating non-commercial film, radio, theater and music of the region.
Ashoka: Ashoka's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated, and to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs - extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities - supporting the individual, idea and institution through all phases of their career. Once elected to Ashoka, Fellows benefit from being part of the global Fellowship for life.
Boys Hope Girls Hope: Boys Hope Girls Hope helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family like homes, opportunities and education through college.
Bread for the World: A Christian movement to end hunger nationally and internationally through lobbying our nation's leaders to pass specific legislation that helps to increase food security.
Break Away: Break Away's mission is to train, assist, and connect campuses and communities in promoting quality alternative break programs that inspire lifelong active citizenship.
Breakthrough Collaborative (Summerbridge National): Breakthrough Collaborative is a national education program with sites in 24 cities across the USA and in Hong Kong. At Breakthrough, high school and college students teach motivated middle school students with limited educational opportunities. Our goals are to prepare the younger students for college and introduce older students to the excitement of the classroom.
Brooklawn: Brooklawn provides comprehensive care, education, and treatment to boys with emotional and behavioral problems.
Camp Bob Summer/Kanuga Conferences, Inc: Camp Bob is a traditional summer camp for disadvantaged, at-risk, and homeless children. An outreach program of the Kanuga Conference Center, Camp Bob serves over 1200 campers each year. Communities, persons, and organizations from the eastern United States sponsor children in their area to attend Camp Bob for weeklong sessions.
Camp Coca Cola Atlanta: Camp Coca-Cola is a five year leadership development program focusing on community service, leadership, and education for our youth.
Camp Dudley, YMCA The oldest camp for boys
Camp Hanover: Camping is an integral part of the total church's Program of Christian Education. Church camping offers the unique opportunity to participate in a 24 hour a day experience in Christian group living in the out-of-doors, through which the counselors and campers involved, can find meaning and purpose for their lives.
Camp Twin Lakes: Camp Twin Lakes is Georgia's only camping facility designed for children with a wide range of physical and emotional needs. This caring environment was created to nurture these children, to allow them to experience the therapeutic joys of camping and recreation.
CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
Center for Documentary Studies
Center for Student Missions: The Center for Student Missions (CSM) provides rural and suburban junior high, high school, and college and adult groups from a variety of Christian churches with a bridge to short term Christian ministry and service opportunities in some of North America's key urban centers.
Child Welfare League of America: CWLA is a national membership organization made up of over 900 public and private child welfare agencies. Responsible for a wide variety of programs which work to enhance the quality of life for children. Examples of programs include adolescent pregnancy prevention, adoption, child care, child protection, family foster care, HIV/AIDS, health care, housing & homelessness.
Christodora: Christodora offers quality environmental science and wilderness experiences to New York City youth who otherwise could not afford the opportunity. Our programs are dedicated to promoting personal growth and awareness-creating in our students a broader view of what life can be.
Church Health Center: Church Health Center is an organization that seeks to reclaim the Church’s biblical and historical commitment to care for the poor who are sick.
Citizen Schools: Since 1995 Citizen Schools has built a creative and effective learning model that addresses community needs while building student skills through hands-on experiential learning activities.
City Year: Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year now sets the standard for national service with over 1,000 corps members serving at 15 sites across the country. Corps members can serve in their own hometowns, in other cities of their choosing, or wherever the need is greatest.
Common Cause: Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization promoting open, honest and accountable government. Supported by the dues and contributions of over 200,000 members in every state across the nation, Common Cause represents the unified voice of the people against corruption in government and big money special interests.
Congressional Hunger Center/ Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship: The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation
Corporation for National Service: Provides opportunities for all Americans of all ages and backgrounds to help solve community problems and encourages all Americans to engage in such service.
DIA Service Hungary (HAVE): The Hungarian American Volunteer Experience (HAVE) is an integral part of our program. It infuses American volunteer know-how and enthusiasm into the region by linking American university students with their peers in Hungary. These students from both sides of the Atlantic work side-by-side as an international team, assisting with flood relief, working with children and refugees, restoring castles and youth centers, and protecting the environment.
Discovery Farm: Discovery Farm is a Christian summer camp ministry providing summer voc-tech training for underachieving young men, ages 11-14, and weekend retreats for adults/students.
Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center: Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center's mission: To have an effect on education in the United States by: - Creating a school that engages young people in learning, keeps them in school, and helps them graduate and make a difference in the world. - By creating a professional development center (including internships) through which others can learn about what works and apply it to their own settings. A year-round residential high school that offers full scholarships to 96 students who have not experienced success in traditional academic programs. They fulfill graduation requirements according to an Individualized Learning Plan.
Echoing Hills Village, Inc: Echoing Hills Village, Inc. is a Christian non-profit organization which provides quality residential services for about 260 individuals with developmental disabilities in six locations across Ohio. We also offer a summer camping program; serving approximately 475 campers will all kinds of disabilities each summer.
Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc: Help for troubled and at risk youth.
Education Works: Education Works provides programs in communities and schools characterized by high rates of poverty and low levels of educational achievement.
EnVision Leadership Inc.: Making leadership a part of every student’s education.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation: For a world of peace, justice, and non violence.
Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches
Food Research and Action Center: Fighting hunger in America
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc.: Get Active, Give!
Generation Five: Ending child sexual abuse within five generations.
Generations United: Generations United is focused solely on promoting intergenerational strategies, programs, and public policies.
Ghost Ranch: Let our world change your world.
Heifer International: Ending hunger, caring for the Earth.
Human Service Alliance/ Center for Purposeful Living: Discovering new paradigms and changing our future today.
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development: Connecting people and ideas to create change.
Interfaith Hospitality of Somerset County: Provides shelter, meals and emotional support to homeless families and single women through volunteers.
International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership: Uniting study abroad and volunteer service.
Jameson Camp: Enriching the lives of Indiana youth in need, by inspiring them to discover their strengths.
Johnsonsburg Presbyterian Center : A resource of seven New Jersey Presbyteries.
Jubilee Project, Inc.: The mission of Jubilee Project is to provide empowerment to people in need in Hancock County, Tennessee, one of the lowest income counties in the state, through youth development, small business development, and leadership development.
KaBoom!: KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization which inspires individuals, organizations and businesses to join together to build much needed, safe and accessible playgrounds.
Kids Corporation: Academic achievement for Newark kids since 1971.
Kieve Affective Education Inc.: The mission of Kieve is to empower young people and the adults who affect them to contribute positively to society by providing a wide range of experiential educational opportunities at Kieve, in the wilderness, in schools, and in communities that will help them to: increase their self-confidence, raise their aspirations, and develop their ability to work better within a group.
Let’s Get Ready: Students helping students get into college.
Love of Learning: To help students realize who they are and whose they are so as to enable and empower them to become successful and productive world citizens.
Mayo Graduate School/Mayo Clinic: The Mayo Clinic is known mostly for high quality clinical care, but is also a leading center for biomedical research and education. Its community of scientists and clinicians promotes cooperation, not competition. Over 1,400 physicians and scientists work there. The Mayo clinic provides biomedical research and education along with extensive patient care.
Metropolitan Interfaith Association: MIFA unites all faiths, ages, and cultures to meet human needs and develop lasting solutions that help our neighbors live together with hope, independence, and dignity.
Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls clubs of Washington D.C: Our mission is to prevent crime by providing the children of Washington, DC with structured social, recreational, athletic, and educational activities to help them develop into responsible citizens: to create safe havens in which they may play and learn; and to use positive role models to inspire them.
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center: The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center is an interfaith, inter-racial organization dedicated to education and advocacy for local and global peace and justice issues.
Mission Service Recruitment, Presbyterian Church (USA): Mission Service Recruitment is part of the Worldwide Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church USA. Our programs put young people (19-30 years old) in areas of need to develop community life and encourage spiritual growth.
Montreat Conference Center: The Montreat Conference Center, as a mission center of the Presbyterian Church (USA), seeks to glorify God by serving the whole church of Jesus Christ by calling all God's people to a place set apart for spiritual commitment and renewal, to grow in discipleship, to build relationships, and to prepare one another for Christ's ministry in the world.
MOOSE (Maryville Outdoor Outreach Service Experience): To assist in the conservation of our National Parks by creating stewardship of the land and each other, while educating students about the historical perspective of Westward expansion.
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc.: The mission of MHO is to build and improve homes, neighborhoods and communities for people of limited resources. The primary goal of MHO's Emergency Home repair Program is to reduce the immediate threat to life, health and safety in homes owned and occupied by low-income people living in Buncombe County.
N Street Village Inc.: N Street Village was founded in 1973, an inter-faith response to the suffering in our nation's capital. Since then, concerned people of many faiths have been working together to meet the immediate and long-term needs of homeless women and low-income families.
Nashville CARES: CARES purpose is to educate the community for increased understanding and prevention of HIV transmission, to advocate for responsible public policy and provide services that improve quality of life for people with HIV/AIDS and their families.
National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH): The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH), a non-profit organization founded in 1977 by Brother Rick Curry, S.J., is a training, production and advocacy organization serving persons with disabilities who are interested in the performing and fine arts.
National Coalition for the Homeless: Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following four areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil and voting rights. Our approaches are: grassroots organizing, public education, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships.
National Women’s Hall of Fame: Mission is to honor in perpetuity these women, citizens of the Unites States of America, whose contributions to the arts, athletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science have been the greater value for the development of their country. The Hall is home to exhibits, artifacts of interest, a research library and office.
National Youth Leadership Council: Mission is to engage young people in schools and communities through innovation in learning, leadership, service and public policy. NYLC coordinates a variety of programs that support youth leadership and youth-adult partnerships in service-learning.
New Jersey SEEDS: A privately funded statewide nonprofit committed to developing future leaders through education. In partnership with competitive secondary schools, NJ SEEDS provides access to opportunities for highly motivated, academically qualified, economically disadvantaged students. NJ SEEDS is a 14-month academic enrichment program for low-income students which later feed them into prep schools.
Operation Crossroads Africa: Operation Crossroads Africa, OCA, seeks to promote cross-cultural understanding and provide community service by sending young people to work on development projects in Africa and in Brazil as part of our Diaspond Program.
Oxfam America: Oxfam America is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice around the world. We work to eliminate the root causes of social and economic inequities by challenging the structural barriers that foster conflict and human suffering and limit people from gaining the skills, resources, and power to become self-sufficient.
PANIM: The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values is a non-profit educational foundation advancing tikkun olam, activism and civic engagement by American Jews, grounded in Torah and Jewish values.
Partners in School Innovation: Partners in School Innovation is a school reform organization working to strengthen public schools in low income communities. An AmeriCorps program since 1994 we provide the people power to enable our partner school to achieve recognizable improvements in student learning and develop the organizational capability to sustain these results.
Peace Villages Foundation: We promote the Culture of Peace through volunteer work programs where we create additional, alternative educational opportunities to improve health and living standards for children and their families, mostly members of the local indigenous communities and promote general integration of children with special needs.
Phillips Academy: Phillips Academy, founded in 1778, is an independent, coeducational diverse, nonsectarian, non-profit boarding and day school offering a variety of academic programs for American and international students in grades 9-12 and post-graduate.
Project Pericles Inc: Project Pericles encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in and out of the classroom. This learning experience is intended to provide students with a foundation for social and civic involvement and a conviction that democratic institutions and processes offer each person the best opportunity to improve the condition of society.
Project Renew: Project Renew is a community development corporation whose mission to revitalize neighborhoods, provide opportunities for quality affordable housing and to support community & economic development opportunities throughout the region.
Provisions: Mission is to prevent violence by strengthening and empowering families, communities, and neighborhoods, and encouraging community pride and involvement through education, community organizing, development and revitalization.
Rural and Migrant Ministry, Inc: Rural and Migrant Ministry (RMM) is a non-profit organization serving rural and migrant people in New York through programs of empowerment and advocacy. Interns are invited to join their diverse staff for a summer (June-August) and work in a specific program area. RMM services the rural and migrant farm working communities of New York State.
Scottie’s Place: Scotties Place is an organization aimed at provided an uplifting and educational experience for homeless children from the following areas: West Virginia, Greensboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. Scotties place is located on 318 acres of preserved land and uses wilderness adventure to teach life skills and to help build a more positive self image.
Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation: An educational organization dedicated to encouraging people to consciously develop their own personal, moral, and spiritual values and to live according to them. The SKSF creates experiential learning programs and social contexts within which people can explore the deeper questions in life while developing intellectual understanding of personal character in a quest for the life worth living.
Share Our Strength: Works to alleviate and prevent hunger and poverty in the US and around the world. By supporting food assistance, treating malnutrition and promoting economic independence among people in need, SOS meets immediate demands for food while investing in long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Shepard Poverty Alliance: Washington and Lee's Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability integrates academic study and learning through service and reflection.
Sister Island Project: Sister Island Project works to promote diversity awareness, cultural exchange, and sustainable development in the Dominican Republic. Sister Island Project's work in the Dominican Republic is based in Cruz Verde, a poor rural community in the Yabacao region of Monte Plata province.
Southern Empowerment Project: SEP stands with the oppressed challenging racism and social injustice. SEP recruits and trains community leaders to become organizers to assist organizations in the South and Appalachia to solve community problems.
Stone Circles: Since its inception in the spring of 1995, stone circles have found unique ways to integrate faith, spiritual practice, and social change. We have developed innovative outlets for interfaith dialogue, action, and reflection and assisting individuals and organizations to integrate their faith into their work for justice.
Student Action with Farm Workers: Student Action with Farm workers is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization whose mission is to bring students and farm workers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farm workers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.
Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE): The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) is a network of college students, adult learners, administrators, literacy practitioners and community partners working to implement and support participatory education and social change work in campus-based literacy programs. SCALE is part of the School of Educational the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Teach for America: The mission of Teach for America is to build a corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach students in under-resourced urban and rural public schools and who serve as lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational excellence and equity.
The Beloved Community Center: The Beloved Community Center is a non-profit organization that was created based on the spirit of community spoken of by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In this spirit, we envision and work toward social and economic relations that affirm and realize the equality, dignity, worth and potential of every person. The Beloved Community Center (BCC) oversees the operation of several ongoing projects that are committed to social, economic and racial justice, grassroots democracy and authentic community building.
The CORO Foundation: CORO is a non-profit, non-partisan educational institute supported by foundations, corporations and individuals. Coro program participants learn about the real world in the real world -- by actively questioning, interacting with diverse constituents, finding resources and coming up with innovative solutions to the problems faced by their communities.
The Door: The Door is New York City's premier youth development agency, offering unique and highly effective programs for young people 12-21. Since 1972 The Door has practiced a holistic and human approach that helps each individual member to dismantle the complex barriers that often stand in the way of success. The Door's mission is to empower young people to reach their potential by providing comprehensive youth development services in a diverse and caring environment.
The Fund for Theological Education: The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) is a leading advocate for excellence and diversity in Christian ministry. Its work supports the next generation of leaders among pastors and scholars – providing fellowships and a network of support to gifted young people from all denominations and racial ethnic backgrounds. The Fund is also a resource for educational and faith communities, offering programs to help encourage high-quality candidates to explore vocations in ministry and teaching. Since 1954, the Atlanta-based Fund has awarded more than 5,500 fellowships in partnership with others committed to quality leadership for the church.
The Institute for Community Leadership: The Mission of the Institute for Community Leadership is: To empower individuals and organizations to create a vision of a more just nation and world and to develop and sustain within themselves the strength, hope, leadership, relationships and organizational integrity to bring about that vision. ICL is a non-profit organization and works with schools indigenous nations and municipalities. The Institute for Community Leadership (ICL) challenges the status quo. Individuals who participate in ICL programming develop their personal and group power to foster meaningful social change.
The Jack Orchard ALS Foundation: The Jack Orchard ALS Foundation exists to support scientific research into therapies for those suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease or ALS), to help ALS sufferers remain hopeful through a volunteer-based patient service program known as Extra Hands for ALS, and to spearhead a national education campaign to inspire grassroots participation in the fight against ALS.
The Learning Project: To help dramatically improve America's education system by designing, launching, and managing dozens of exceptional high quality public schools in low income communities.
The Loka Institute: This organization is dedicated to making research, science, and technology responsive to democratically decided social and environmental concerns.
The National Teaching Academy: The National Teaching Academy’s mission is to dramatically improve the quality of teaching in urban areas. We help schools prepare, reward and retain outstanding teachers. New teachers learn by apprenticing under master teachers, who are rigorously selected and generously compensated. NTA improves teacher preparation while simultaneously creating a career path for outstanding teachers.
The Summer Camp: The Summer Camp was founded in 1986 as a not-for-profit organization. Our mission is to provide inner city and rural girls from low-income families and foster homes with a comprehensive, residential camping experience. Other than those girls from foster homes, all children come from families whose income makes them eligible for free lunch at school. The girls come to camp at no cost to their families.
The Washington Internship Institute: "The Premier Internship Program in Washington, DC". IEL is an educational nonprofit organization committed to individual development through excellence in experiential education. Active learning by participants, including disciplined reflection about individual goals, intercultural competence, and personal attention form IEL staff, are at the heart of IEL's mission.
The Wight Foundation, Inc: The Wight Foundation's mission is to provide opportunities for young men and women of the Greater Newark area to achieve academic excellence and personal development within a boarding school environment. Emphasis is placed on reaching one's full potential scholastically and socially. Wight Foundation scholars are responsible, respected and positive contributors to society.
United Methodist Relief Center: The UMRC rehabilitates housing for very low income homeowners in the Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties of SC. By using donated funds along with federal and private grants and volunteer labor from all age groups, the UMRC completes approximately 35 projects per year.
Urban Promises Ministries, Inc.: The mission of the Urban Promise is to teach children and young adults the skills necessary for spiritual growth, life management and Christian leadership. Regional offices and programs also in Wilmington, DE; Vancouver and Toronto Canada.
Visions in Action: Visions in Action is an international nonprofit organization committed to achieving social and economic justice in the developing world through the participation of communities of self-reliant, grassroots volunteers. Visions in Action are a registered nonprofit organization with its headquarters in Washington DC and small offices in each of its program countries. Visions are a nonreligious and nonpolitical organization. We are committed to providing hands on educational experiences where participants assist in making a difference in the developing world. Visions in Action programs are funded by program fees, private contributions and in-kind donations. We operate primarily on volunteer energy, though we have seven permanent staff based in the US, Africa and Latin America, and another dozen orientation leaders and language instructors who are hired on a short-term basis to facilitate orientation.
Volunteers for China: Volunteers for China is a Christian 501 C 3 Tennessee Non Profit that concentrates on recruiting volunteers for educational teaching programs in mainland China. Programs may include oral English, medical English, technical presentations, and Christian music English programs.
Volunteers of America, Upward Bound: To assist low-income students and students from homes where neither parent graduated from college to complete high school, gain admission to their college of choice, and earn a bachelors degree.
WAND: Women’s Action for New Direction: WAND - Women's Action for New Directions mission is to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs.
Women’s Heart Foundation: We are a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to fighting heart disease in women through awareness and educational campaigns.
Woodland’s Foundation Inc.: Woodlands Foundation is devoted to enriching the lives of children and adults with disability and chronic illness. We accomplish our mission by developing relationships with agencies and organizations that serve individuals with disability to hold their programs at our beautiful 32-acre residential program facility. In addition we sponsor some of our own specialty camps and programs.
World TEAM Sports: Created to encourage promote and develop opportunities in sports for all people, especially persons with disabilities. Our mission is to organize and host innovative and challenging sporting events which encourage all athletes to participate in lifetime sports. To sponsor highly visible integrated amateur athletic teams which compete and promote awareness of the capabilities of individuals with disabilities. To develop programs which inspire the athletic community to undertake volunteer roles. To create marketing and public relations activities aims at increasing awareness of these issues.
World Teach: The mission of World Teach is to give individuals the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to international education in developing nations. Summer teaching opportunities as well as 6-12 month opportunities are available.
YMCA Camp Horseshoe: Horseshoe's Youth Opportunity Camps provide structured programs for children from low-income families learn skills and attitudes, positive goals for the future and school readiness. Operated by the Ohio-West Virginia YMCA, Camp Horseshoe was opened in 1940 and, since then, has operated under the belief that children and youth are our nation's most valuable resource. They believe youth are best served when they are engaged in their own learning and encouraged to commit to achieve and take on community life responsibilities.
Youth Build USA: Youth Build is a comprehensive youth and community development program as well as an alternative school. Youth Build, designed to run on a 12-month cycle, offers job training, education, counseling, and leadership development opportunities to unemployed and out-of-school young adults, ages 16-24, through the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in their own communities.
Youth on Board: Youth on Board envisions a world where young people are fully respected and treated as valued and active members of their families, communities, and society. To reach that end, we are working to revolutionize the role of young people in society by: - Changing attitudes and strengthening relationships among youth, and between young people and adults; - Preparing young people to be leaders and decision makers in all aspects of their lives; and - Ensuring that policies, practices and laws reflect young people's role as full and valued members of their communities.
Youth Service America: YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA (YSA) is a resource center and premier alliance of 200+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally, or globally. YSA's mission is to strengthen the Effectiveness, Sustainability, and Scale of the youth service movement. YSA envisions a powerful network of organizations committed to making service the common experience and expectation of all young Americans. A strong youth service movement will create healthy communities, and foster citizenship, knowledge, and the personal development of young people.