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Service-Learning Success Stories

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse knows what great work you do and we want others to know, too. Please send us stories and photos of your service-learning successes.

  • Leadership Students Reconnecting with Native Community (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
    Does service learning support and boost academic achievement? This is a question that educators and administrators seek to answer—intrinsically, those teachers who participate in service learning know that it does, but finding solid, black and white evidence to document that fact is sometimes difficult. But for Navajo students of the STAR School, service learning also reconnects them to...
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  • In Service - 140 students, 80 projects, over 2000 hours
    The Teen Action and Support Center (TASC) is a non-profit in Rogers, Arkansas who offers free services to teens and their families. Our largest program, In Service, is a community service learning program that links students in the community with volunteer opportunities. We work with students who need community service for all sorts of reasons, such as college and scholarship applications,...
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  • Help Make A Difference!!!!
    I am a 13 year old middle school student. I have started a non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) -- Empower Orphans. The purpose of "Empower Orphans" is to elevate the well being of orphaned children and empower them to succeed, by helping them help themselves. Our focus is to help create self sufficiency by supplying them with the tools to gain a basic education and technical skills...
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  • History Comes Alive...In Our Own Backyard!
    After taking a history walk around our neighborhood, students began an ongoing cross-curricular project centered around an abandoned family cemetery. Students have documented the history of the Thomas Eddie Family, memorialized in the cemetery. They have added to the Sunset Hills historical archives. Upon discoverin that Thomas Eddie was a mountain man, and one of the 7 trappers of the Rocky...
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  • Project FLOW's Day of Service T-Shirt: A New Use of Social Media by Volunteer WV
    Project FLOW – Future Leaders of Watersheds subgrantees submitted t-shirt designs for the FLOW Day of Service T-Shirt. Hand-drawn designs were transferred to electronic media and posted on the VolunteerWV Blog. FLOW youth exercised their democratic right and voted on the design they preferred during a two week period. The winning design was placed on the back of the service day t-shirt....
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  • 4-H'ers Stitching Up Service To Others
    The Wood County 4-H program in Ohio USA is a key leader in the area of service learning through the art of quilting. For the past five years 4-H members and volunteers have created more than 110 quilts for cancer patients, domestic violence victims, teenage mothers and individuals in need identified by 4-H members. This year 50 members, have gathered together to construct quilts for the...
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  • LYO in the FLOW
    Two thousand gallons of water may sound like a lot, but if you're trying to carry water for all your household needs, it's really just a drop in the bucket. The community of Prenter, WV has been dealing with contaminated groundwater/well water for several years now, and Community Lutheran Partners, Inc, working with the Lutheran Youth Organization and a Future Leaders of Watersheds grant were...
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  • Stanislaus County Chavez Clubs Celebrate Chavez Day of Service
    My name in Kimberly Ramsingh and I am currently serving as an AmeriCorps*VISTA which stands for Volunteers in Service to America at the Stanislaus Office of Education in California. As a volunteer, I came to Modesto from the east coast to donate my time and energy in promoting the Cesar E. Chavez Service Clubs to assist families in moving out of poverty through educational service-learning...
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  • Student Volunteers Dish the Dirt at Environmental Event (Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    BREATHE LA O24u Environmental Education Program and O24u Online provided day-long activities and games at Museum of Natural History Sustainable Sunday on February 22, 2009. Families and children of all ages enjoyed fun learning activities led by BREATHE LA service learning volunteers and staff from the popular BREATHE LA O24u Online and O24u Environmental Education Program including an eco-...
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  • "Brushing Bunny"...teaching disadvantaged youth about oral hygiene (Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    A group of YHSC students identified the issue of unmet oral health care needs of children living in poverty. The group was led by a student who is interested in pursuing a career in dentistry. A local pediatric dentist met with the students to teach them about unmet oral health care needs in their community. The students developed a book titled Brushing Bunny" to read to elementary school...
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