What is Learn and Serve America?
America’s young people
– from kindergartners to college students – have the desire, energy
and ability to make a real difference in their communities. Service-learning
offers a unique opportunity for them to get involved in a tangible
way by integrating community service projects with classroom learning.
Service-learning engages students in the educational process, using
what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems. Students
not only learn about democracy and citizenship, they become actively
contributing citizens and community members through the service
they perform.
Learn and Serve America supports and encourages service-learning
throughout the United States, and enables over one million students
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.
Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to
K-12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions
to facilitate service-learning projects by:
• Providing
grant support for school-community partnerships and higher education
institutions;
• Providing training and technical assistance resources to teachers,
administrators, parents, schools and community groups; and
• Collecting and disseminating research, effective practices, curricula,
and program models.
Get
more information on the organizations involved.
Learn and Serve America
is a program of the Corporation
for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency
created to connect Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities
to give back to their communities and their nation. • What
is Service-Learning?
• Principles
that Guide Learn and Serve America
• Our
History
• The
Impact of Learn and Serve America
K-12 School-Based
Programs
School-Based programs engage students in service-learning programs
that allow young people to apply academic content knowledge to meet
critical - community needs. Participants may be youth between the
ages of 5 and 17 and children with disabilities, as defined in the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, who receive services
under that Act.
School-based service-learning programs promote service-learning
as an educational strategy. Learn and Serve America funds—
1. support
high-quality service-learning projects that engage students in meeting
community needs with demonstrable results, while enhancing students’
academic and civic learning; and
2. support efforts to build institutional capacity, including the
training of educators, and to strengthen the service infrastructure
to expand service opportunities.
Funds are allocated to
each State by a formula that considers each State’s school-age population
and Title I allotment. Grants are awarded on a non-competitive basis
to States through State Education Agencies (SEAs) that then provide
subgrants to Local Educational Agencies, public or private schools,
nonprofits, and higher education institutions that implement programs.
Grantees provide monitoring, training and technical assistance,
curriculum development, evaluation and develop a statewide network.
Eligible SEAs may choose to designate a statewide entity to apply
for the State’s allotment and carry out allowable activities.
• Learn
about Learn and Serve America grant opportunities Links:
Resources • The
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse www.servicelearning.org
• Learn and Serve America www.learnandserve.gov
Partner
Organizations
- AmeriCorps
Alums
- Corporation for
National & Community Service
- Council
of Volunteer Administrators of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Department of
Community Affairs
- Georgia Association
for Volunteer Administration, Inc. Georgia Commission for
Service and Volunteerism Georgia Department of Community Affairs
60 Executive Park South, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30329 404.327.6860
404.327.6848 fax Getting Things Done for Georgia! Visit our web
site at www.ServeGA.org
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