ELCA Journeys for Youth and Young Adults. An annual catalogue of servant learning opportunities and hunger/justice programs across the United States. A hardcopy is mailed to each congregation and it is posted on the ELCA Outdoor Ministries Web site at:
http://www.elca.org/dcm/camps/journey/journey_search.asp or
1-800-638-3522.

Welcome Forward: A Field Guide for Global Travelers (with music CD). A new ELCA resource to help prepare groups of any age for thoughtful, respectful, life changing, community- and people-centered mission trips and travel. Available from Augsburg Fortress, 1-800-328-4648 or www.augsburgfortress.org (#6000201869; $8.00 plus shipping).

Lutheran Social Ministry Organizations Web site. A guide to Lutheran Social Ministry Organizations that can help develop service and volunteer opportunities. http://www.elca.org/dcs/smo or 1-800-638-3522.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Public resources and programs.
www.servicelearning.org

National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC). Public resources, programs and training for youth service learning. http://www.nylc.org or
651-631-3672.

ELCA Disaster Response (domestic and international).
http://elca.org/disaster or 1-800-638-3522.

ELCA World Hunger Program. Resources, information, and how to respond.
http://www.elca.org/hunger  or 1-800-638-3522. The site also includes some World Hunger resources for youth:
http://www.elca.org/hunger/resources/youth.html

ELCA Social Ministry resources for congregations. Helpful resources for developing local social ministries, jail and prison ministry, violence prevention, confronting racism, etc.
http://www.elca.org/dcm/socialministry/resources.html or
1-800-638-3522.

Making a Difference: Leading Students in Life-Changing Service.
Available from Group Publishing, www.grouppublishing.com or
1-800-447-1070.

BECAUSE SERVICE LEARNING IS KEY
Youth Serve! training kit: http://www.search-institute.org/catalog/catalog/product_16376_Youth_Serve_Workshop_Kit.html 
This workshop kit is designed to help adult and youth leaders thoughtfully and creatively link service-learning and asset building in concrete ways that strengthen the complementary approaches.

FREE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCE
Grounding Asset Building in Lutheran Faith: http://www.search-institute.org/congregations/REVISEDGroundSetBuilding.pdf This asset-building resource provides an invitation to reflection and dialogue.

Learn and Serve America (Service Learning)
Do you have an idea for a service-learning project that will impact your community? Learn and Serve America provides grant support, primarily through intermediaries, to diverse school-community partnerships to develop and sustain service-learning projects. Generally, grants are for a period of three years, renewable annually contingent upon performance and the availability of funds. Higher education, communituy-based, and school-based grants are available to help target different populations.
http://www.learnandserve.org/


State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant (Community Service)
The State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant enables youth and educators to bring the benefits of service-learning to more people. This grant is for young people ages 5-25, teachers, and service-learning coordinators to implement service-learning projects on National Youth Service Day 2005, April 15-17. One hundred grants of $1,000 each will be available to young people, teachers, and service-learning coordinators to support National Youth Service Day.
http://www.ysa.org/awards/partnerag/sf05/overview_parent.cfm