Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

This resource provides the rationale, practical steps, and tools needed to engage in youth-led interfaith service-learning. It draws from the lessons learned, stories, examples, and tools from a federally supported pilot project, Inspired to Serve: Youth-Led Interfaith Action. INSPIRED TO SERVE: YOUTH-LED INTERFAITH ACTION is a three-year pilot project to enhance the capacity of America's 350,000 churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other faith-based organizations to engage young people in effective service-learning that increases interfaith cooperation and contributes to young people's healthy development. The approach combines Interfaith Youth Core's (IFYC's) innovative model of interfaith service-learning with Search Institute's (SI's) framework of Developmental Assets and its asset-based approach to community and social change. The project focuses on building the will and capacity of faith-based organizations to strengthen their programs and impact in the following four critical-shift areas: toward effective service-learning, toward interfaith engagement, toward asset-building approaches with youth, and toward city-wide movements. (authors)