Accept the Challenge! Thanks for a great Challenge Kick Off Week! 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.
National Education Association President Accepts the Challenge
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.