Global Youth Service Day

Organizations' Guide to GYSD

Submitted by gysd on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 16:21

 

Any organization in any sector (nonprofit/NGO, government, faith-based, business, or association) of any scale (local, statewide, regional, national, or global) can use GYSD as an activation point to engage youth in service or as an opportunity to celebrate youth who serve.

YSA encourages you to use GYSD as a tool to strengthen your programs, form new partnerships, expand your volunteer base, garner media attention, gain support from local public officials, and secure additional funding.

 

Learn about GYSD.

See what happened last year in your state or country.

See the hundreds of organizations around the world that have already joined YSA's Global Youth Service Network.

 

 

Choose how your organization will celebrate GYSD.

Engage Youth in Service ASAP!
Awareness  – Youth create public awareness about critical issues to change behaviors.
Service –  Youth serve, using their passion and creativity solve problems.  
Advocacy – Youth advocate to change policies and laws.
Philanthropy – Youth are philanthropists, generating financial or in-kind support to improve lives.

Highlight and celebrate youth service (and your programs) by recognizing youth volunteers and sharing your program successes with the community.

Use GYSD as an opportunity to recruit new youth members or volunteers by highlighting the service opportunities your organization offers.

 

 

Plan GYSD service projects or celebration events.

Use the Global Youth Service Day Toolkit to help you plan your project. The GYSD Toolkit is a step-by-step guide to help youth and adult project organizers plan and lead a high quality community service or service-learning project for GYSD – or any day of the year!

You can also check out tons of other planning resources from YSA.

 

 

Register GYSD projects.

Registering your project takes less than 5 minutes, and will add your project to the GYSD Map and the GYSD Impact Report. Registering your project helps YSA tell the story of what's happening all around the world on GYSD, and it helps media, elected officials, partners, and volunteers find your project.

If you are registering 20 or more GYSD projects, outreachatysa [dot] org (subject: GYSD%20Project%20Spreadsheet%20Template) (e-mail YSA's Outreach staff) for a spreadsheet template to add all the projects at once.

 

 

Get the word out about GYSD.

Request free GYSD posters to help promote your project.

Get all the logos you need.

Promote your project on Facebook & Twitter.

Engage the media and your elected officials.

Connect with other organizations around the world through YSA's GYSD Learning Exchange resources.