Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world. On April 15-17, 2011, youth will be changing the world!
Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), originally launched and known as National Youth Service Day in the United States, is a coordinated annual event which gathers young people around the world in conducting community service, service learning, and youth voice activities that benefit their communities, their countries, and the world.
Each year, millions of children and youth around the world work together with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, volunteer and national service programs, government agencies, faith communities, and other individuals to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities on Global Youth Service Day.
In 2010:
•Volunteers participated on 6 continents.
•3,091 projects were registered on GYSD.org.
•648 grants were disbursed to youth, nonprofits and schools, totaling $716,000.
•Thousands of media placements with close to 2 billion media impressions.
•1,165 local, state, and federal government officials with 35 state proclamations; 27 co-sponsors for the U.S. Senate resolution; 44 co-sponsors for the U.S. House resolution.
This year Detroit Job Corps Center will be doing projects that relates to community service, service learning, and youth voice activities that benefit Detroit communities.
If you would like for us to do a community project or know of a community project that we can partner with, please contact, Joan Scales, Detroit Job Corps Center Business and Community Liaison, (313)852-0319.
Click here to be introduced to the City of Detroit
Source: City of Detroit, Ms. Roshani Dantas, Policy Analyst/Green Initiatives, Green Task Force