Youth Community Service Certifying Service Hours for Gunn High School and Connecting Youth with Meaningful Service!
 

Youth Community Service Certifying Service Hours for Gunn High School and Connecting Youth with Meaningful Service!

Youth Community Service (YCS)  at Gunn High School

  • Transcript Recognition and The Presidential Service Award
    • YCS partners with Gunn’s Registrar to verify service hours for transcript recognition.(see Gunn’s Community Service page for more information)
    • YCS is an official certifying agency for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. See our website for more awards information.
  • Gunn Service Day 2024 Engaging Gunn Students in Service:
    • Each year YCS works with student leaders and teaching staff to bring meaningful service to Gunn students.
    • In the 2022-23 school year YCS worked with students and school staff to host service projects on and off campus. We plan on building on that success in the 2023-24 year.
  • Engaging service activities for the whole family throughout the year!
    • Connect with other families through engaging and safe service projects! Contact us to join the Service Pop Up mailing list.
  • YCS Community Service Days, events, and afterschool programs! (open to the Palo Alto and surrounding communities, leadership opportunities for students): 
    • Engage in service with people from across the community in our Fall & Spring Service Events
    • Youth Connect is a service and leadership afterschool program open to teens.
    • Join our mailing list to stay informed!
  • Gunn YCS-Interact Club (open to all Gunn students):
    • Weekly service projects supported by YCS program staff and Gunn teacher sponsors Ichikawa and Mr. Deggeller.
    • Community service-learning opportunities provided throughout the year.
Youth Community Service is a local non-profit organization that provides social-emotional service-learning resources in the Palo Alto District.  

We invite financial & volunteer support by Gunn familiesfor YCS programs at Gunn. Your tax exempt donation can support our youth programs, engaging service opportunities, including monthly service pop-ups and annual community-wide service events.

Support YCS

* Contact information is required to process your donation.

Giving through your employer or charitable trust and matching

Donations via a Charitable Trust/Donor-Advised Fund or made via your Corporate Giving department:
If you donate by one of these methods, you will receive an itemized list of your pledged tax-deductible donations for use when making your donation.
Double Your Donation! Youth Community Service is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, Tax ID #20-8099150
Click below if your company will match your donation, if you will be donating directly through your company or through a  Charitable Trust/Donor-Advised Fund (i.e. Schwab, Fidelity, etc):
Corporate Matching Funds:

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Your tax-exempt contribution supports YCS expenses so more students can find balance and purpose through service.
If you prefer to donate by cash or check please download the YCS Form.






Prefer to pay by check? Print the YCS Annual Giving Form and mail to address listed, or
 
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If you have questions on the Back-to-School site please email: backtoschool@gunnpta.org.