Non-profit organizations that work in two or more states, such as YMCA of the USA, 4-H, or Camp Fire; and State Service Commissions on National and Community Service are eligible to compete nationally for grants. Funds are used to provide training and technical assistance and program evaluation as well as to implement local service-learning programs in community and faith-based non-profit organizations. These programs may also partner with schools.

As part of a Corporation-wide priority, grantees are encouraged to focus on providing opportunities for disadvantaged youth to serve others, through, among other possible activities, intensive Summer of Service programs. Programs may propose to provide new after-school programs in which youth participate in service-learning or to add community service and service-learning as significant activities in existing after-school programs. Some grants may provide funds to intermediaries to work with multiple State Service Commissions. Alternately, a community-based program might provide training and technical assistance to a network of youth-serving programs to incorporate high-quality service and service-learning practices into their existing programs.

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