YSA Grant Programs

Youth Service America supports and motivates youth, educators, and service-learning coordinators by distributing over 400 micro grants each year for service and service-learning initiatives.

While most of the grants support projects that culminate on Global Youth Service Day in April, funding is also available for projects in the fall.

Map of YSA GranteesYouth Service America thanks our sponsors who support and underwrite the following grants to increase the quality and quantity of service and service-learning.

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See YSA grantees on a map or as a list by program and year, by issue area, and see YSA grantees together with millions of other youth around the world celebrating their work every spring on the Global Youth Service Day Map.


Grant Programs


State Farm Companies Foundation Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants

State Farm is proud to team up with Youth Service America in a dynamic partnership to offer grants of up to $1,000 for the promotion of service learning around the United States and Canada. Projects are selected for their capacity to combine service with academic learning in order to cultivate well-rounded leadership among America's youth.
See a Map of State Farm Companies Foundation Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants grantees

Disney Friends for Change Grants

Disney, together with Youth Service America (YSA), is proud to offer Disney’s Friends for Change Grants to help kids that are making environmentally friendly changes in their communities. Disney’s Friends for Change is a program from Disney that encourages kids everywhere to take steps together with their friends to help the planet. The Friends for Change Grants will fund kids’ projects that help the environment and will look to engage children ages 5-18 as leaders in their communities. Disney, working with YSA, will award 150 $500 grants throughout 2010.
See a Map of Disney Friends for Change grantees

UnitedHealth HEROES

UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America are excited to offer the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant program for youth-led community education projects in selected U.S. states and regions.
See a Map of UnitedHealth HEROES grantees

Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards

Youth Service America is pleased to launch the first annual Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards to recognize young female social entrepreneurs whose initiatives serve the common good. The awards are created in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her entrepreneurial career when she was a young girl in West Virginia and later became a very successful businesswoman in Washington, DC.

See a Map of Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards grantees

STEMester of Service

Youth Service America (YSA) has launched an exciting new grants program designed to support selected middle school teachers and service-learning coordinators in strengthening their delivery of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curricula through service-learning.
See a Map of STEMester of Service grantees

NEA Youth Leaders for Literacy

Youth Leaders for Literacy will award 30 young people from across the U.S. each with $500 grants and $500 in books from the Pearson Foundation. Successful projects will be youth-led and address an established literacy need in the applicant's school or community. The projects will follow the framework of YSA's Semester of Service initiative, launching on Martin Luther King, Jr.
See a Map of Youth Leaders for Literacy grantees

Get Ur Good On Grants

Miley Cyrus is partnering with Youth Service America (YSA) to create Get Ur Good On (www.GetUrGoodOn.org), a social network that brings together youth to support each other in their mission to do "good" in their communities.

To support this "good," YSA is offering Get Ur Good On Grants, supporting youth-led service initiatives on Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25, 2010.
See a Map of Get Ur Good On grantees



Grant applications must be filled out online. Previews of the applications may be downloaded in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat is a free reader for the PDF format, and there is also a portable PDF viewer that does not require installation.

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