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Leadership and Community Service
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YouthBuild students learn to advocate for issues that concern them and their communities, and to take responsibility for themselves and their families. Students share in the governance of their own program through an elected policy committee.
The following initiatives of YouthBuild USA support the leadership and community service component of YouthBuild programs:
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AmeriCorps
Fifty-one YouthBuild programs in 29 states engage more than 1,700 low-income young people each year to serve as YouthBuild AmeriCorps members in America's poorest communities, building affordable homes for low-income people.
Read more about YouthBuild USA AmeriCorps >>
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Asset Trust
The YouthBuild Asset Trust provides YouthBuild graduates the funds, financial literacy training, and mentoring necessary to seize career and educational opportunities, overcome unexpected setbacks, enhance leadership roles, and achieve economic independence.
Read more about the Asset Trust >>
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National Alumni Council
The NAC is the peer-elected governing body of the YouthBuild Alumni Association.
Read more about the National Alumni Council >>
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Young Leaders Council
The YLC is a peer-elected council of YouthBuild students that offers policy recommendations to the YouthBuild Affiliated Network and externally for public policy. They server as spokespeople for YouthBuild, participating in civic engagement activities, including voter registration and advocacy on Capitol Hill and at their statehouses.
Read more about the Young Leaders Council >>
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Loan Fund
The YouthBuild Loan Fund provide financial capital and technical assistance to support community rebuilding efforts of community-based organizations in low-income communities, particularly those that include young people in affordable housing construction, leadership development, and business development.
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1,000 Leaders
The 1,000 Graduate Leaders Network is an emerging initiative designed to identify, mobilize, and support 1,000 YouthBuild graduates who are committed to significant local leadership, excellence in their own lives and advocacy on behalf of young people raised poor nationally.
Read more about 1,000 Leaders >>
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Conference of Young Leaders
Each year YouthBuild USA hosts the Conference of Young Leaders in Washington, DC. Over 100 YouthBuild student leaders from programs across the country spend several days participating in numerous trainings and electing officers to represent them in YouthBuild's National Young Leaders Council. After the conference, students participate in Capitol Hill Day where they visit their respective state legislators to learn about legislative processes as well as increase their knowledge of civic engagement and duties. The National Rural Youth Caucus is held as a pre-event to the Conference of Young Leaders. The goals for the event are to bring a select group of young people together to construct a platform of the unique challenges facing rural youth, identify the creative assets that young people offer, and create a context for how these issues fit into the overall framework of national rural policy. The young people will then present their platform and findings to the entire Conference of Young Leaders as well as share this information with their local legislators on Capitol Hill Day.
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