Apply by October 20 to Present at the 2024 National Service-Learning Conference | | We are excited to invite you to join our colleagues at the National Youth Leadership Council for The National Service-Learning Conference - From Passion to Action - in Saint Paul, MN on April 3-6, 2024! This is the largest and most comprehensive global convening for service-learning educators, nonprofit leaders, administrators, students, and more!
Share your experience and story by applying to present a Workshop, Lightning Talk, or Showcase by October 20, 2023.
- Workshops are the heart of the conference, providing skill-building for youth and adults alike. These interactive, engaged learning sessions are designed for a variety of levels and audiences engaged in service-learning. Session topics are selected for breadth and depth, and include service-learning basics, best practices, current and emerging issues, and how tos. Workshop sessions are 75 minutes long.
- Lightning talks are invigorating, speedy sessions in intimate group settings where you can share your ideas, projects, and findings with participants. You will have 10 minutes to present and get to the core of the topic, and then 10 minutes for participant interaction. After 20 minutes, the presenters remain at the table, and participants move on for two more rounds.
- Do you have a high-quality project you would like to highlight at the conference? Not ready for a full workshop session but have a powerful message to deliver? Then consider being part of the Showcase. The Showcase highlights high-quality projects from across the country and around the world, and is an opportunity to connect with people and share how a project was implemented, how it was connected to curricular goals, and what made it effective.
Nominate an exemplary leader for one of NYLC's three annual awards by January 15, 2024. (More information below in the Grants & Awards section.)
Register yourself and/or your youth to attend this inspiring, engaging, innovative, and motivating event (we promise, you won't want to miss it!) by March 22, 2024. | | Celebrate Banned Books Week & Let Freedom Read Day - Oct. 7 Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information. Honorary Chair Levar Burton & Youth Chair Da'Taeveyon Daniels are asking everyone to take action on October 7 to help defend books from censorship. Read more bannedbooksweek.org | | | | | | Banned Books Week - Little Free Library Little Free Library condemns book banning. Join them in celebrating access to all books during Banned Books Week. Share a banned book in a Little Free Library, download the LFL mobile app, enter their Banned Books Week giveaway, and take action. Read more littlefreelibrary.org | | | | | | MLK Day & GYSD Lead Agency Grants - Deadline: Oct. 27 Youth Service America will award $2,500 or $5,000 Lead Agency Grants to organizations leading a coalition of project planning partners to increase youth participation on MLK Day of Service and Global Youth Service Day/Youth Service Month. Read more ysa.org | | | | | | Youth Service AmeriCorps Site Application - Deadline: Nov. 1 YSA is designing a new, national AmeriCorps program focused on expanding opportunities for and reducing barriers to youth participation! Applications for organizations interested in hosting a member for the 2024-2025 academic year are now open. Read more ysa.org | | | | | | NYLC Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award This award recognizes practitioners who have equipped young people to lead and serve, both through their direct service-learning instruction and by nurturing other practitioners. Apply or nominate by January 15, 2024. Read more nylc.org | | | | | | NYLC Youth Leadership For Service-Learning Excellence Award This award recognizes K-12 service-learning programs and projects that demonstrate outstanding youth leadership. The winner will receive $1,000 to support their program. Apply or nominate by January 15, 2024. Read more nylc.org | | | | | | Everyday Young Hero: Avinash Thakur | Avinash Thakur (16 | West Grove, Pennsylvania) has always loved the connection that comes from writing letters to family members, especially his grandfather. When his grandfather, who lives by himself, became ill and had to receive dialysis, these letters became even more important as they were a way for Avinash to brighten his grandfather's day. In the United States, over 8 million adults ages 50 and older are affected by isolation, and according to the National Institute on Aging, the health risks of prolonged isolation are equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Between the impact of isolation on physical and mental health, and his enjoyment writing letters, Avinash began volunteering with Love For Our Elders in November 2022 and created a chapter at his high school shortly after.
Love For Our Elders is a youth-founded nonprofit organization that strives to combat elder isolation through monthly letter requests. At his school, Avinash's primary goal was to connect and engage with the elderly population. By activating his peers as letter writers, he has been able to raise awareness of the impact of isolation and give other young people the opportunity to earn service hours in a meaningful way. So far, Avinash has grown his chapter to 67 members and he has personally written over 60 letters that have been sent to 20 states and three countries. In his county, Avinash learned that 21% of the adults are seniors, so his next step is to reach out to local senior care communities and establish an intergenerational letter writing program. Through handwritten letters, Avinash hopes to bring a smile to as many faces as he can. | | Book Bans Mobilizing a New Generation of Student Activists As the right bans books on LGBTQ issues and racial justice, youth are getting a crash course in collective organizing. Read more truthout.org | | | | | | Texas Youth Say Book Bans Violate Their Rights They argue House Bill 900, which a federal judge has temporarily blocked, is harmful to young people because it violates their privacy, takes away their freedom to read, and could make them feel alienated. Read more www.houstonpublicmedia.org | | | | | | The Banned Book Club Virtual Library This virtual library established by the DPLA uses GPS-based geo-targeting to track and record books banned by location. In locations where certain books are banned, the Banned Book Club makes these books free to access. Read more www.thebannedbookclub.info | | | | | | Books for All: Protect the Freedom to Read Discover all The New York Public Library has to offer to protect the freedom to read for students across the country, including a Teen Banned Book Club, unlimited access to book club titles on NYPL's SimplyE app, and a National Teen Writing Contest. Read more www.nypl.org | | | | | | SERVICE SONGS OF THE WEEK | | | | "Hero In Me" - Jeffrey Gaines | | "Heroes (We Could Be)" - Alesso featuring Tove Lo | | "Infinite (Unsung Heroes)" - Built by Titan featuring Joel Smallbone | | "Hero's Song" - Brendan James | "Superheroes" - The Script | | | Which song is your favorite? | | "Hero In Me" - Jeffrey Gaines | | | | | "Heroes (We Could Be)" - Alesso feat. Tove Lo | | | | | "Infinite (Unsung Heroes)" - Built by Titan feat. Joel Smallbone | | | | | "Hero's Song" - Brendan James | | | | | | | Michael Minks, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | |
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