Search Institute is a leading innovator in discovering what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. Drawing on extensive research, Search Institute brings solutions to pressing challenges in the lives of young people and their communities. The Inspired To Serve project is part of Search Institute’s new Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.

Youth Service America sponsors a Global Youth Service Day in which youth participate in GYSD to address the needs of their local communities through service, to be recognized for their contributions, and to be a part of a global youth service movement. IFYC’s Days of Interfaith Youth Service campaign is an official partner of YSA’s National Global Youth Service Days.

The Inspired To Serve pilot project is made possible through a grant from Learn and Serve America. Learn and Serve America provides grants to schools, colleges, and nonprofit groups to support efforts to engage 1.5 million students each year in community service linked educational goals. Learn and Serve America is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and AmeriCorps.

The Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) has partnered with Jordan Interfaith Action (JIA) to coordinate an international interfaith youth exchange between Jordan and the United States. The partner organizations are training two highly talented groups of emerging faith leaders in Chicago and Jordan to be organizers and leaders of interfaith youth service and dialogue. The programs in both cities bring together students that represent the geographic, ethnic, religious and socio-economic diversity of the countries.

America’s Second Harvest, the Nation’s Food Bank Network is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. It distributes food and grocery products through a nationwide network of certified affiliates, increases public awareness of domestic hunger, and advocates for policies that benefit America’s hungry. Through their affiliates, America’s Second Harvest delivers food and grocery products to approximately 50,000 local charitable hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries, soup kitchens, and women’s shelters. Their services reach 23 million hungry people, including 9 million children and 2.5 million seniors.

Habitat for Humanity International works to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness in the world. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races, and religions to build houses together in partnerships with families in need. They have built over 175,000 houses around the world and provided safe, decent, affordable shelter for over 900,000 people. Because Habitat is a grassroots organization, local affiliates across the world each oversee the work of building houses. Some local affiliates have chosen to offer interfaith builds, which intentionally bring together religiously diverse people and communities to build houses.