Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is organized by Youth Service America with the Global Youth Action Network as its key partner and a consortium of international organizations and over 125 national partners with thousands of local organizations. GYSD is an annual global event that highlights and celebrates the ongoing contributions of youth to their communities through volunteer service and service-learning.

Global Youth Service Day 2009 was April 24-26

GYSD LogoMark your calendars - GYSD 2010 will be April 23-25

Millions of youth changed the world this past weekend!
Youth Service America’s 21st Global Youth Service Day was a resounding success. Lasting three days, April 24-26, thousands of events around the world celebrated and recognized the contributions young people make to their communities every day of the year. State Farm Companies Foundation was the U.S. Presenting Sponsor and funded service-learning grants for projects in the U.S. and Canada. Learn more about Global Youth Service Day or read more for highlights of GYSD 2009

Share photos and videos of your GYSD project!

Find that lost USB cable and upload your photos and videos from your GYSD service projects!

Flickr

Tag your photos with GYSD at Flickr.com (read some instructions on how to upload and tag) -- also tag your location and if you were funded by a grant!


YouTubeDid you make a video? Upload that to YouTube and tag it with GYSD, we'll add it to the YouTube GYSD playlist and group! (Learn more about GYSD and YouTube)


Want to see what other people around the world did and took photos of? Check out more at http://gysd.org/share/flickr and http://gysd.org/share/youtube !

Apply to be a 2010 Global Youth Service Day Lead Agency!

Looking for a way to increase participation in your programs while connecting with the larger youth service movement? Apply to be a Lead Agency for Global Youth Service Day 2010! Lead Agencies are organizations across the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, or New Brunswick that increase the scope, visibility, and sustainability of Global Youth Service Day by leading city, regional, or statewide service projects.

GYSD 2009 Evaluation

Did you help change the world on Global Youth Service Day?

Youth Service America wants to know how you improved your community on GYSD.

Help us show the power of the global youth service movement by completing the evaluation form:

Resources

Youth Service America publishes a set of posters, toolkits, and curricula guides to help you plan your Global Youth Service Day (or Semester of Service!) event. Youth Service America can ship printed GYSD Posters and Semester of Service Guides to addresses in the continental U.S.

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"If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Youth Service America

Lead International Partner

Global Youth Action Network

Presenting Sponsor

State Farm Foundation