ImPACT, a service-learning program at the Learning Web in Ithaca, New York, engaged youth in service-learning by giving them "voice and choice," which made service-learning relevant to their experiences. ImPACT ran as an extracurricular after-school program, which met twice a week for three hours over a five-month period. In the New Designs for Youth Development article "Making an ImPACT: The Power of Community-Based Service Learning," program coordinator Curtis Ogden discusses how he gave youth voice in each stage of the service-learning project: recruitment, group building, community research, selection and implementation of project, and evaluation and celebration.

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