Project YES (Youth Envisioning Social change) provides leadership opportunities for young people through the arts and service-learning.
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CURRENT SERVICE-LEARNING PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES 
In spring 2010, Project YES hosted after-school service-learning programs at Lafayette
Elementary School, Escuela Bilingue Pioneer Elementary School, and Ryan Elementary School. Over the course of the semester, up to 25 students in in each Youth Council developed and implemented successful service-learning projects. At the completion of their projects, each group wrote the following statements describing their learning and accomplishments:
- "We are the Project YES Pioneer Elementary Youth Council. This semester we created a play about global warming. We wrote the script and designed the set from recyclable materials. Global warming means the temperature of our earth is rising and it happens because people use too many fossil fuels. We chose to make our play about global warming because polar bears are dying and a lot of people don’t care about it. While we made the play, we learned that polar bears are important because they help the ecosystem and there are many ways to stop global warming like recycling, not watching TV, and raising awareness about the problem. We hope our play will help because if people know about global warming then they will help too!"
- "We are the Project YES Ryan Elementary Youth Council. This spring we got donations for people in Haiti because there was an earthquake there and people needed supplies that they didn’t have. To collect donations, we first called businesses and schools to see if they would put a box out for us. Then, we decorated a lot of boxes and took them to the places that we called. After six weeks, we picked up the boxes with the donations. Then we took them to the Volunteer Resource Center at CU Boulder so they could give them to One World Running to send over to Haiti. We collected over 300 items including summer clothes, medical and school supplies, and shoes. We learned that you can always help the world without spending a lot of money and donations can be very important. Not everybody in the world has what they need."
- "We are the Project YES Lafayette Elementary Youth Council. This spring, we accomplished collecting donations, making dog treats, and making dog toys for an organization called Canine Partners of the Rockies. Canine Partners of the Rockies is an organization that raises and trains dogs to help people with physical disabilities. During our project, we learned that dogs can do many things to help people like turn on lights and open doors. One of the dogs even came to our school and showed us all of her tricks. We also learned sign language, how to sew, and how to make cookies! Our project is important because by helping the dogs at Canine Partners, we are helping people live better and making our community stronger."
