Service Year Alliance

Programs & partnerships: the programs team creates and convenes learning cohorts of Service Year programs, state Service commissions, impact communities, and other stakeholders to pilot, learn, and document solutions to unblock shared challenges, develop best practices or explore new opportunities to deploy Service. In 2022 this body of work focused on continuing the work of the climate learning cohort to convene, support, and then disseminate learnings from a group of programs to understand the models, challenges, and opportunities in utilizing national Service in support of the climate and workforce development fields & a postsecondary pathways cohort to support programs creating opportunities for young people to have a successful Service Year experience after graduating highschool including dissemination of the corps member curriculum: strengthening Service years as a postsecondary option and the high school transitions quality continuum. The partnerships team supports a diverse network of Service Year impact communities across the country to learn and share best practices in their efforts to bring universal national Service to life in their communities. In 2022 we added five new communities to the network. The programs & partnerships team also supports the Service Year alums network (inclusive of americorps alums, returned peace corps volunteers, youthbuild alums, and alums from various other Service programs) by establishing the peer-led alumni chapter steering committee and by creating partnerships with organizations to connect alums in the database with relevant local events, resources, and other career, networking, and personal and professional development opportunities.

Policy: the policy team leads works to ensure the successful expansion of national Service by bringing cross-sector stakeholders together to lift up national Service and fostering partnerships across the entire federal government so that the whole-of-government utilizes the power of national Service as a way to meet their needs and put the next generation on pathways to good-paying jobs.

Service Year Exchange: build a state-of-the-art online marketplace and resource hub, to match young people interested in Service with Service Year opportunities, provide serving corps members with a virtual companion to their Service, and connect alums to each other as part of a lifelong alumni network. In 2022, we added 4,500 new users and expanded the number of host organizations recruiting on the platform.

Communications: the communications activities are focused on amplifying the activities of the policy, partnerships, and programs team at sya via op-eds, media outreach, and external affairs partnerships