Youth Service America

Youth Service America (YSA) is a resource center that partners with many other organizations who are committed to increasing the quantity and quality of volunteer opportunities for people that are currently between 5 and 25 years of age. Their aim is to serve both nationally and internationally. The purpose of the YSA is to support and promote youth voice, youth service, and service-learning through advocacy and resource sharing activities. Steve Culbertson was appointed to the role of President and CEO in 1996.

Programs
Programs include:


 * Technology: YSA.org to support the organization's outreach to partners; and GYSD.org to support Global Youth Service Day;
 * Microfinance grants that use a teaching application process to encourage hundreds of high quality, measurable, service-learning projects by young people around the world;
 * Government relations to encourage an ongoing Federal and State investment in national service programs such as AmeriCorps;
 * Youth Voice initiative to help young people influence adults and contribute to policies and problems that affect them;
 * Communications to spread the word to media about young people as assets and resources.

YSA has also been a long-time partner supporting the National Service Learning Conference, co-sponsored by the National Youth Leadership Council.