“Let’s Read. Let’s Move.” Summer Youth Service Initiative

The Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that operates AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Social Innovation Fund, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs, is sponsoring its fourth Let’s Read. Let’s Move. initiative, which is designed to encourage all Americans to participate in combating summer reading loss and childhood obesity through volunteering and service this summer.

Recommendations from the agency include:

• organizing a book drive,
• reading books with kids,
• encouraging a child to sign up for the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge,
• building or rehabilitating a playground,
• Helping kids locate summer feeding sites,
• creating a community garden,
• collecting excess fresh, healthy foods to provide to kids in need.

For more information about this initiative, please visit:

Corporation for National and Community Service: Let's Read. Let's Move.