Twitter

You can follow Youth Service America and service news, events, and grant announcements on your cell phone!

In the U.S., text "follow youthservice" (without the quotes) to 40404 (Twitter.com) (See below for international codes).  If you're new to Twitter, you will get a reply back asking for a username. Twitter will automatically create a mobile-only account and you will get texted when we update (5-10 times a week).

You can also follow these other updates:

(Click on the name to see the Twitter page for a preview of the content)

• youthservice - News and events from Youth Service America
• ysagrants - Grants and awards from YSA and other youth-oriented grants
• servicevote - Youth civic engagement and election volunteer news
• servicewire - Updates on service and service-learning from YSA, servenet.org and other service-learning partners and news feeds - (high-volume! Only subscribe if you have an unlimited SMS account!)
• gysd - Updates about Global Youth Service Day; high volume around March/April each year.
• gysdevents - What's happening on Global Youth Service Day?  (EXTREMELY high-volume! Only subscribe if you have an unlimited SMS account!)

Remember, just text "follow " then the name of the updates you want to receive

International SMS "short" codes:

• 21212 in Canada
• 5566511 in India
• +44 7624 801423 or +44 778 148 8126 Globally (but doesn't currenty send updates to phones)