Global Youth Service Day

Youth Guide to GYSD

Learn about Global Youth Service Day.

See what happened last year in your state or country.

Find a GYSD partner near you.
 

Choose how you want to serve on GYSD.

Search for a volunteer opportunity in the U.S. or around the world or find someone else's GYSD project to join.

Plan your own project. Get project ideas from "100 Ways to Get Ur Good On" or from YSA's hundreds of partners.

Get your school involved - tell a teacher about Semester of Service, YSA's school-based service-learning program.
 

 

Plan your GYSD project.

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 your GYSD project.

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.

Get the word out about your project.

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.

Join Get Ur Good On, YSA's online community for youth volunteers. Create your own service profile with your service pictures, videos, and blogs.

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