Introduce Young People to Volunteering

Help Build a Global Movement of Changemakers

Help your students ages 12 to 20  to become more socially conscious. Encourage them to apply for micro-grants of up to $1,000 from the Youth Service America (YSA) Youth Venture Program to create sustainable community-benefiting ventures. Youth Venture provides coaching, resources, and seed funding.

Inspiring and investing in teams of young people to start their own social ventures, YSA Youth Venture Program is working to build a powerful network of young changemakers around the world.

The application deadline for the micro-grants is August 13, 2007.

For more information about the YSA Youth Venture Program micro-grants, please go to: http://www.genv.net/en-us/region/ysa.

The YSA Youth Venture Program is an AmeriCorps VISTA program.

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