Community Based Learn and Serve for Organizations

Community-Based Service Learning Grant—The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service was chosen by Learn & Serve America in 2009 as a recipient of a community-based service learning grant to develop programming in both urban and rural communities in the state.

• Our partner in this initiative is Iowa State University 4H Extension, who is operating Reach Out Iowa at six sites (Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Humboldt, Marshalltown, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, and Winterset). 
• For more information, visit the “For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations” section of the Learn and Serve America website.

Youth Engagement Zones— are service-learning programs in which members of an eligible partnership collaborate to provide coordinated school-based or community-based service-learning opportunities.  Grants are awarded annually in the spring.

• Programs are local educational agencies where all of the secondary schools implement service-learning as part of the curriculum and where at least 90 percent of students are involved in service-learning activities.
• For more information, visit the “Our Programs” section of the Learn and Serve America page.