[Youth-list] Funding Opportunity

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THE  YSA YOUTH VENTURE PROGRAM IS OFFERING MICRO-GRANTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 
NATIONWIDE  TO START SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL VENTURES 
WASHINGTON  – (June 6, 2007) – Socially-conscience  people between the ages 
of 12 and 20-years-old are encouraged to apply for  micro-grants of up to 
$1,000 from the YSA Youth Venture Program to create  sustainable social ventures.  
An  AmeriCorps VISTA program, the YSA Youth Venture Program’s mission is to 
provide  funding and resources to young people to lead socially-conscience 
campaigns that  are a lasting asset to their communities. YSA Youth Venture teams  
are required to plan a Global Youth Service Day project on April 25-27, 2008, 
 and will receive resources from Youth Service America and Youth Venture, the 
 leading organizations in the youth service movement. The application 
deadline is  August 13, 2007.

For more information  about the YSA Youth Venture Program micro-grants, 
please go to: _http://www.genv.net/en-us/region/ysa_ 
(http://www.genv.net/en-us/region/ysa) .   
Youth  Service America is national resource  center that partners with 
thousands of organizations committed to increasing the  quality and quantity of 
volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to  serve locally, 
nationally, and globally.  Founded in 1986, YSA’s mission is  to expand the impact of 
the youth service movement with communities, schools,  corporations, and 
governments.  In addition to Global Youth Service Day,  which takes place every April 
in more than 115 countries, YSA also hosts  servenet (_www.servenet.org_ 
(http://www.servenet.org/) ), providing the largest  database of volunteer 
opportunities in America. For more information, visit:  _www.YSA.org_ 
(file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/cwessell/Local%20Settings/cwessell/Documents%20and%20Se
ttings/CCapers/Local%20Settings/Temp/www.YSA.org) . 
About  Youth Venture: By inspiring and investing in teams of  young people to 
start their own social ventures, Youth Venture is working to  build a 
powerful network of young changemakers around the world. Youth Venture  provides 
coaching, resources, and seed funding for young people ages 12-20 to  create, 
launch, and lead sustainable community-benefiting ventures. We believe  this will 
catalyze a cultural sea change, transforming a generation of young  people 
into capable leaders of social change - leading to a world of Everyone a 
Changemaker. Youth Venture was  founded in 1996 by Ashoka. For more information: 
_www.genv.net_ (http://www.genv.net/) .   

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MEDIA  CONTACT:        
Christina  Wessell  Batcheler 
Youth Service America 
202-296-2992 x 128 
_cwessell at ysa.org_ (mailto:cwessell at ysa.org)  
Christina  Wessell Batcheler 
Christina Wessell Batcheler  -  Manager of Communications 
Youth Service America (YSA)  
Phone: 202-296-2992  x  128  |  Fax: 202-296-4030   |  _cwessell at ysa.org_ 
(mailto:cwessell at ysa.org)  |  1101 15th Street, NW, Suite  200  |  Washington, DC 
 |  20005 
_http://www.YSA.org_ (http://www.ysa.org/)    |  _http://_ 
(http://www.servenet.org/) _www.servenet.org_ (http://www.servenet.org/)   | 
*For the Media  Room: _www.YSA.org\news_ (http://www.ysa.org/news) .  
 
Janice M. Gruendel, Ph.D.
Governor's Senior Advisor on Early  Childhood
Co-Chair, CT Early Childhood Education Cabinet
Senior Youth  Consultant
Office for Workforce Competitiveness
Home office:  203-481-9940
Blackberry: 203-824-4766
Mail to: 28 Juniper  Point
Branford, CT 06405

"Few will  have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work 
to change a  small portion of events and in the total of those acts will be 
written the  history of this generation." Robert Kennedy



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