YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing, and transform their own lives and roles in society. » More
First Lady Michelle Obama honored YouthBuild USA by joining us on the National Mall for the YouthBuild AmeriCorps Green Service Day on March 17. Her visit and inspiring remarks about YouthBuild and service were widely covered by The Washington Post, CNN, the Associated Press, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Public Radio, an op-ed in USA Today and by news organizations around the world.» More
As part of YouthBuild’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, YouthBuild USA hosted a spectacular Gala Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, on March 17th, 2009. Five hundred guests attended the event, which celebrated YouthBuild’s first 30 years, launched YouthBuild International, and honored seven YouthBuild graduate leaders for their achievements. These individuals were chosen to represent the tens of thousands of other YouthBuild graduates who are working to fulfill their own dreams, rebuild their own lives and communities, and do their part to end poverty in America.» More
