About Learn and Serve for Organizations

Service learning offers a unique opportunity for young people to get involved with their communities in a tangible way by integrating service projects with learning goals. While school-based programs connect service projects with curriculum-based learning goals, community-based programs connect service project to other learning goals, such as team-building, and leadership.  Service-learning engages students throughout the process, using their awareness of community issues to identify, plan and carry out service projects to solve real-life problems and then reflect on and celebrate the process.  Young people not only learn about democracy and citizenship, they become actively contributing citizens and community members through the service they perform.

The Corporation on National and Community Service provides federal funding through Learn and Serve America grants to schools, colleges, and community organizations to advance service-learning. Learn & Serve grants support and encourage service-learning throughout the United States, and enable more than one million young people to make meaningful contributions to their community while building their academic and civic skills. By engaging our nation’s young people in service-learning, Learn and Serve America instills an ethic of lifelong community service.

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