Serve DC funds the following Learn and Serve Community-Based programs that operate in the District of Columbia. 

CentroNía serving youth in Ward 1, develops service-learning projects that explore the rich history and culture of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. CentroNía provides youth a safe, nurturing, academically and artistically enriched environment for out of school time service-learning activities. The focus of the programming is to integrate media literacy and media arts as core components of the program’s arts integrated methodology and project-based service-learning approach. Service-learning initiatives focus on neighborhood restoration projects, community mapping, photographic and video documentation and research of the community

FAN's (Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso) mission is to cultivate a focus on the well-being and positive development of youth in an environment infused with safety, security and love. Our current programs bring a youth development perspective to Washington, DC youth in foster care. FAN will offer two after school and summer programs between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008: the PYD program engages youth ages 10-13 in academic support, extracurricular instruction, group mentoring, cultural activities, and youth directed community service projects for 32 weeks during the school year and 6 weeks during the summer. In FAN's YEP (Youth Ensembles Program), youth ages 14 and 15 continue to receive academic support and mentoring in the context of “ensembles” organized around artistic, athletic, academic, or vocational endeavors. Participants will develop a community action projects within their ensemble which ask them to use their ensemble area to foster community change.

Heads Up is a free after-school and summer program for children in D.C. Operating in public schools in Wards 4, 6 and 8, Heads Up gives over 600 children an additional three-and-a-half hours of service-learning, academic and enrichment activities each day after school. Our program offers a supportive, family-like learning community that reinforces in young people the values of hard work, continuing education and service to one’s community. In collaboration with their tutors, each class of students develops a service-learning project around a community issue. Field trips to local college campuses, historical sites and museums are included.

Kid Power-DC is a community youth organization serving nearly 150 public school students at six program sites throughout the District of Columbia (Miner E.S., Tubman E.S., Ross E.S., Amidon E.S., Raymond E.S., and a middle school program at the Calvary Baptist Church). Its academic, art, and civic engagement programs promote the importance of neighborhood history and youth leadership. Its primary program, the Citizenship Project, is a multi-faceted approach to civics education. It has three goals: 1) to improve academic abilities, especially civic knowledge and literacy-building skills; 2 to improve artistic literacy in the areas of performing and visual arts; and 3) to incorporate a civics and local history curriculum into youth-led service activities.

Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP) partners with Cardozo Senior High School to implement SOLAR (Serving Others through Learning, Action and Reflection), a service-learning program that educates students in Ward 1 on hunger and homelessness in the District. Through SOLAR, YSOP engages students and teachers in service projects that foster greater understanding of their communities and encourage youth to plan their own service activities through the SOLAR Club. Students and teachers participate in two types of service-learning activities organized by YSOP: Service Days and Service Dinners. During Service Days, participants volunteer at different sites serving hungry and homeless people in Washington, DC. Students who participate in Service Dinners prepare, serve, and share a meal with hungry and homeless guests at YSOP. Both activities include opportunities for reflection. Through the collaboration between Cardozo Senior High School teachers and YSOP, the SOLAR Program allows students to learn about the issues of hunger and homelessness that plague their city and communities, while also giving them opportunities to engage in service and develop leadership skills.