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EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH AMERICA'S NATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDS DATABASE

Youth Service America (http://www.ysa.org)  is a resource center and an alliance of 200+ organizations dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of opportunities for young people to serve locally, nationally, and globally. Their mission is to strengthen the scale, effectiveness, and sustainability of the youth service field. YSA runs National/Global Youth Service Day (April 26-28, 2002); SERVEnet.org, the President's Student Service Awards, the Youth Civic Action Network, and the National Service-Learning Conference.

In an effort to expand the scope of volunteer opportunities for America's youth, Humanitarian Resource Institute and Youth Service America are joining together to expand the reach of America's Community Needs Database. Michael Mccabe, Vice President of Programs for Youth Service America shares:

"Youth Service America is proud to partner with the Humanitarian Resource Institute and its America's National Needs Database project.  The combination of HRI's outreach efforts to connect state and county social service needs with Youth Service America's Get Involved! database technology will help link thousands of potential volunteers to improve the conditions in their communities.  While the Get Involved! box/database on theHRI site will connect people of all ages with volunteer opportunities, we are particularly interested in how this partnership will engage America's youth in meeting critical needs in their communities."

For additional information, visit the America's  National Community Needs Database on the web: http://www.humanitarian.net/usdatabase