YouthBuild students, graduates, staff, and supporters spanning multiple continents joined together in celebrating Global YouthBuild Day last Wednesday. YouthBuild programs participated in the advocacy day by holding events and organizing service projects in communities around the world.
Late last week, YouthBuild USA’s Rural and Native Initiative brought together 21 young people from YouthBuild programs in rural parts of the United States for the National Rural Youth Gathering in Arlington, Virginia.
Over 110 young people from YouthBuild programs across the United States gathered in Arlington County, Virginia earlier this week for the 28th Annual YouthBuild AmeriCorps Conference of Young Leaders.
YouthBuild USA and AmeriCorps programs around the country are joining the Corporation for National Community Service in celebrating AmeriCorps Week 2016.
Seventy YouthBuild students from Arizona, Mexico and El Salvador met in San Luis today for the program’s first transnational event. YouthBuild students and graduates joined together to build walls for two green homes that will be owned by low-income families.
At the end of 2015, Congress enacted and the President signed an $84.5 million appropriation for the DOL YouthBuild program for Fiscal Year 2016. In doing so, Congress was responding positively to the efforts by YouthBuild’s champions in Congress -- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in the Senate, and in House of Representatives Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and Congressman Bob Dold (R-IL).
