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We still have much to do during the 2009-2010 Learn & Serve Challenge. See below for more information.

The National Learn & Serve Challenge
We live in a world facing critical challenges that require our collective attention and action. Young people-like all people-yearn to be a part of the solution.

The 2009 National Learn & Serve Challenge is a sustained, focused effort to promote youth civic engagement and service-learning.

Young people will help rebuild and renew their local or global community by using service-learning to create and implement innovative solutions to problems within five priority areas:

  • Community renewal, including responding to the economic crisis
  • Education, including literacy and keeping kids in school
  • Energy and the environment
  • Health and nutrition
  • Safety and security
Goals of the Learn & Serve Challenge:
  • Increase youth participation in service-learning, to reach 5 million young people each year by 2012
  • Measurable progress made in local communities on the five priority areas listed above
  • Increase visibility and engagement of children and youth in the civic life of their communities
  • Increase in the number of schools that offer service-learning opportunities for students
  • Increase local media coverage of service-learning and youth engaged in service-learning
Gear up for the Challenge now:
  • Step 1. Visit here to accept the Challenge and register for the 9 month initiative.
  • Step 2. Gear up for service-learning success with these resources (Calendar and archives of learning opportunities).
  • Step 3. Share your service-learning plan.
  • Step 4. Kick-off your Challenge initiative in January.
  • Step 5. Film your issue and your solution.
  • Step 6. Showcase your service-learning accomplishments.
Visit here for more information.
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The Learn & Serve Challenge is a signature event of the National Service-Learning Partnership in collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service. It is made possible with support from State Farm® Companies Foundation.

The Challenge is supported by nearly 100 local, state, and national organizations committed to engaging in service-learning in our nation's schools, college campuses, and communities. Lead Organizing Partners include:
America's Promise Alliance, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Campus Compact, Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, DECA, National Alliance for Faith and Justice, National Community Education Association, National Education Association, National Youth Leadership Council, National Parent Teacher Association, SEANet - the State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network, Usher's New Look Foundation, Youth Service America.

For more information contact nslp@aed.org or (202) 884-8982.