Keep America Beautiful’s National Youth Advisory Council creates a framework for youth engagement, providing a unique opportunity for 10 high school students from diverse backgrounds across the nation to participate in a service-learning and leadership development program. Prior classes of the Youth Advisory Council have attended the Keep America Beautiful National Conference, which will next take place in Baltimore in early 2019.

All applicants will have an opportunity to serve with the Youth Advisory Council network and create local youth councils. The National Youth Advisory Council will provide participants with the opportunity to:

• Engage in creative work with a national nonprofit organization focused on ending littering, improving recycling, and beautifying America’s communities;
• Partner with like-minded youth with unique perspectives from across the country;
• Inform Keep America Beautiful on programs, while learning about approaches for engaging youth in community service;
• Act as service-learning ambassadors in their community by playing a leadership role in engaging youth in service.

To apply for a position on Keep America Beautiful's Youth Advisory Council, click here.