Donate to YCS 
For twenty years, YCS has offered students the chance to lead, serve and make a difference in their communities. YCS also continues to provide support for teachers who want to implement service-learning strategies within - and outside of - their classrooms.
Funding support for YCS comes from donations from individuals, grants from organizations, and in-kind contributions from the City of Palo Alto and PAUSD. YCS is looking to expand its base of contributors in order to achieve financial year-round sustainability to strengthen and expand its programs in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and the surrounding communities.
With the generous contributions of YCS supporters, Youth Community Service is achieving the following goals:
- Supporting service learning, civic engagement and leadership programs for Palo Alto students.
- Designing and implementing service learning projects for under-represented youth that are connected to science, technology, engineering and math core curriculum.
- Sustaining our life-skills programs in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park at this critical time when safe and positive alternatives are so badly needed.
- Sharing service-learning methods with K-12 educators throughout our region.
- Developing the River of Words Watershed environmental literacy service-learning program for students and educators from Portola Valley to Palo Alto to East Palo Alto.
- Strengthening our Family Service Day for Palo Alto and East Palo Alto families to celebrate a day of service together. This year there were over 800 participants.
- Expanding our summer transition program for students entering high school, to help reverse high dropout rates for Ravenswood (East Palo Alto) students entering Sequoia District high schools.
For more information please contact Leif Erickson at 650-858-8061 or leif@youthcommunityservice.org.
Contributions are tax-deductible with the YCS IRS tax ID number 20-8099150. Contributions may be sent to YCS at 4120 Middlefield Rd, P8. Palo Alto, CA 94303.
