[YL] YSA News Announcement: Funding Available for Young People

Wed Jun 6 12:24:12 EDT 2007

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THE YSA YOUTH VENTURE PROGRAM IS OFFERING MICRO-GRANTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
NATIONWIDE TO START SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL VENTURES

WASHINGTON - (June 6, 2007) - Socially-conscience people between the
ages of 12 and 20-years-old are encouraged to apply for micro-grants of
up to $1,000 from the YSA Youth Venture Program to create sustainable
social ventures.  An AmeriCorps VISTA program, the YSA Youth Venture
Program's mission is to provide funding and resources to young people to
lead socially-conscience campaigns that are a lasting asset to their
communities. YSA Youth Venture teams are required to plan a Global Youth
Service Day project on April 25-27, 2008, and will receive resources
from Youth Service America and Youth Venture, the leading organizations
in the youth service movement. The application deadline is August 13,
2007.

For more information about the YSA Youth Venture Program micro-grants,
please go to: http://www.genv.net/en-us/region/ysa. 

Youth Service America is national resource center that partners with
thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and
quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to
serve locally, nationally, and globally.  Founded in 1986, YSA's mission
is to expand the impact of the youth service movement with communities,
schools, corporations, and governments.  In addition to Global Youth
Service Day, which takes place every April in more than 115 countries,
YSA also hosts servenet (www.servenet.org <http://www.servenet.org/> ),
providing the largest database of volunteer opportunities in America.
For more information, visit: www.YSA.org
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About Youth Venture: By inspiring and investing in teams of young people
to start their own social ventures, Youth Venture is working to build a
powerful network of young changemakers around the world. Youth Venture
provides coaching, resources, and seed funding for young people ages
12-20 to create, launch, and lead sustainable community-benefiting
ventures. We believe this will catalyze a cultural sea change,
transforming a generation of young people into capable leaders of social
change - leading to a world of Everyone a Changemaker. Youth Venture was
founded in 1996 by Ashoka. For more information: www.genv.net
<http://www.genv.net/> . 

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MEDIA CONTACT:      

Christina Wessell Batcheler

Youth Service America

202-296-2992 x 128

cwessell at ysa.org

-- Christina Wessell Batcheler

Christina Wessell Batcheler  -  Manager of Communications 
Youth Service America (YSA) 
Phone: 202-296-2992  x  128  |  Fax: 202-296-4030  |  cwessell at ysa.org
<mailto:cwessell at ysa.org>  | 1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 200  |
Washington, DC  |  20005 
http://www.YSA.org <http://www.YSA.org>   |  http://
<http://www.servenet.org/> www.servenet.org <http://www.servenet.org>  |

*For the Media Room: www.YSA.org\news <http://www.YSA.org/news> .  

Join Us:

*The 20th annual Global Youth Service Day events in the United States
take place April 25-27, 2008 - www.YSA.org/NYSD
<http://www.YSA.org/NYSD> . 

*Internationally, Global Youth Service Day events take place in more
than 115 countries April 25-27, 2008 - www.GYSD.org
<http://www.GYSD.org> .

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