-
By Michael Minks |
April 8, 2010 |
I eagerly awaited its arrival. I had received postcards telling me it was coming. I had heard news reports that it was on its way. I had promoted it to others in the National Service Briefing. I was ready for it.
-
March 31, 2010 |
More than two months have passed since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, but the struggles continue. People are still suffering from lack of housing, food, water, and medical care. Haiti needs our help now more than ever, but the quake that shook...
-
By Sarah Guy |
March 11, 2010 |
Students participating in STEMester of Service are expressing themselves by sending blog entries to YSA. Here are a few responses from students participating in YSA's service-learning framework:
“The Service-Learning Project is a fun project because...
-
March 2, 2010 |
Global Youth Service Day is April 23-25, 2010!
Find a project in your community at www.GYSD.org.
How are you going to change your world? Read more to find out who is participating.
-
By Nawal |
January 14, 2010 |
Like everyone else, young people are concerned about the thousands of lives affected by the Haitian earthquake. You ask yourself what you can do but worry that disaster relief is expensive. It seems as if most of the aid needed is financial.
So what...
-
By Nawal |
November 16, 2009 |
Youth Service America and Scholastic are partnering to give away 10 STEM-related(science, technology, engineering, and math) books a month, every month leading up to Global Youth Service Day in April. How can you win one of these great books? Just...
-
By Sarah Guy |
October 27, 2009 |
With the all the excitement and activity in our office surrounding the UnitedHealth HEROES grant, I’ve been thinking a lot about healthy behaviors, in particular my healthy behaviors (or lack thereof).
I take dance classes regularly, but at class,...
-
October 5, 2009 |
ServiceWire.org is a refreshed version of a news system that's been part of YSA's servenet.org toolset for years. In fact, when servenet.org was launch in the mid-nineties (1996 in fact) its motto was "Our Content in Youth Info" - a few years...
-
By Sarah Guy |
August 13, 2009 |
During my senior year of college, I decided to take a ballet course. I thought it would be fun and a good source of exercise, and I was really curious to find out if my seven years of dancing as an elementary and middle school student would help me...
-
By Michael Minks |
August 3, 2009 |
One Tuesday night a couple of weeks ago, I lined up for the midnight showing of the latest Harry Potter movie. Millions of other people did as well, on that night or later that weekend, making Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the largest...
