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Working through the Metropolitan Federation of Alternative Schools, about 50 Native American youth who attend the Nawayee Center School for at-risk youth in Minneapolis, Minnesota will learn about their heritage and culture through a collaborative quilting project with elders from the local Native American community. In order to help bridge the gap that exists between urban Native American culture and that of previous generations, young people will learn the art of quilting by crafting quilts for graduating seniors from the Nawayee Center School using Native color, style and symbolism.

Students and faculty have combined their talent and energy to create a garden/natural area at the school. The garden will teach the understanding of how food is produced, provide actual hands-on growing experience and teach the concept of "giving back" by donating the produce to a soup kitchen.

Students from Coopersville Area High School interview senior citizens about their lives growing up on the farm. Final DVD will be shown at Coopersville Farm Museum for years to come.

To celebrate Global Youth Service Day and Earth Day, the Friends of Deckers Creek Youth Advisory Board is hosting the 2008 Skate Jam in collaboration with the Greater Morgantown Area Youth Commission. The Skate Jam will include a skateboard competition, the unveling of new recycling bins for Marilla Park designed and placed by local youth and skateboarders, carnival games, environmental workshops, a dunk tank, bounce house, bike safety courses, and live music.

Latino cultural celebration for Children's Alley daycare children, families, stakeholders. This project will promote diversity and tolerance and help to end racism in the Boulder, CO community.

Students identify, interview, photograph, and write about successful Deaf leaders from the local area and then honor them at the Successful Deaf Leaders Celebration on April 17, 2008. These Leaders serve as role models for Deaf students as they learn that they, too, can become successful. Pictures and bios that students produce are framed and hung on the SDL Wall of Fame in the hallways leading to the middle and high schools.

The teens will coordinate community members to assist in putting on a carnival where participants are charged an entry fee of donated goods to participate in the carnival. The objective is to collect enough donations to fill up an entire school bus. These donated goods will be disbursed to needy families within the area.

Over 200 Jewish teens will participate in 12 community service projects in the Greater Pittsburgh area

George Mason University and Jeb Stuart High School students of Spanish will study about the need for, plan, and host a celebration of the role of literacy and Spanish heritage language preservation in building and sustaining community bonds in the immigrant neighborhood of Culmore, Virginia, on April 26, 2008.

This event will illuminate a number of African cultures, raise awareness of challenges faced in Africa, and highlight several development success stories. We will have demonstrations, poster and speaker presentations, drama, storytelling, music, and a wide variety of participatory activities to expose our community to many facets of Africa. These presentations will be made by students, locally living Africans –both adult and children, and other professionals in the community.

Mountain Top Removal and Climate Change Action Project

Education for Exercise, Lifelong Fitness, Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles & Careers in Physical Therapy

High school students at the Performance Learning Center learn conflict resolution strategies. These students will then teach strategies to elementary students at Odell Elementary, and participate in a "Reflection and Celebration" event at the elementary school on May 9.

"Strengthening and Celebrating a Healthy Community” is a project aimed to mobilize youth leaders in St. Paul Public Housing communities to address issues they deem important to the comprehensive health of their community, like gang violence, smoking, or misconceptions about cultural practices, for example. Youth will choose topics of interest to them and relevance to the community, study them, and share what they’ve learned with the community in creative ways.

Construction of an outdoor learning area that beautifies the community

Experience the positive changes taking place in all of Africa presented by many cultures in Africa. Raising Awareness in our community to address needs of African communities.

Students mentor and advocate for art programs for homeless children and organize an open house to showcase the children's artwork.

Students and faculty have combined their talent and energy to create a garden/natural area. The garden will teach the understanding of how food is produced, provide actual hands-on growing experience and teach the concept of "giving back" by donating the produce to a soup kitchen.

Bring Service Agencies together to provide the community with information relative to keeping our youth safe

Approximately 30 youth in the Grant Homes community will design and implement a service-learning project, with assistance from Newberry College students, to meet identified needs in their community.

Y PHILLY: A Youth Identity Artwork allows young people to create an artwork around the idea of personal and cultural identity, then places it in a larger context by exchanging the work with a youth community overseas (Armenia in 2008). Communicating with their overseas peers through art fosters the recognition of universal concerns and hopes among the global youth generation, helping to stop the cycle of fear and violence.

Free Oil Changes for Low-Income Families

Emergency responders meeting weekly with 8th grade students teaching disaster preparedness. For GYSD, students will assemble disaster kits and distribute them to local elderly residents.

A vigil for victims of abuse throughout the lifespan. It is a unique event that regards abuse ranging from Shaken Baby Syndrome to Elder Abuse and Neglect while also including Child Abuse; Bullying; Sexual Assault; and Domestic Violence. One of the main goals of this vigil is to provide resources for those in abusive situations. This event also encourages all members of the community to become involved in raising awareness about abuse.

Volunteer Frederick's annual county-wide beautification project that raises money for participating area nonprofits. Structured like a walk-a-thon; participants collect donations from family; friends and other supporters for their chosen nonprofit. Instead of walking; however; BIG Sweep participants pick up trash from Frederick County roadsides and dump sites.

To celebrate this important day of service; Wagner's Student Nurse Association will work with IS 2 and the Midland Beach Community Association to create a festive event whereby items collected during a Healthy Food Drive will be distributed to the community.

The Outdoors Classroom Project will address each of these deficiencies through hands-on; student-led service to be carried out by school and community youth. Youth participants will also develop lesson plans detailing applied mathematics activities to be used in Outdoors Classroom. The activities included in the Outdoor Classroom Project plan are specifically designed for Active Learning. Through project activities; students will be exposed to real-life situations and opportunities which allow them to learn; apply and demonstrate proficiency in the aforementioned mathematics skills.

Students from Spencer and Northeast Oklahoma City will collect donations of school supplies and hygiene products and assemble care packages to send to schools in Milot; a city in Northern Haiti. There will be a Youth Advisory Board who will conduct research on Haiti and be involved in organizing the volunteer day at Rogers Middle School. Teachers will also be invited to chaperone their students who are participating.