‘‘(E) ensure that youth participating in the 
project provide at least 100 hours of community 
service for the project; 
‘‘(F) recruit eligible youth to participate in 
the project; 
‘‘(G) recruit service sponsors for commu-
nity service activities carried out through the 
project, if the local provider intends to enter 
into an arrangement with such sponsors to pro-
vide project placements for the youth; 
‘‘(H) promote leadership development and 
build an ethic of civic responsibility among the 
youth; 
‘‘(I) provide team-oriented, adult-super-
vised experiences through the project; 
‘‘(J) conduct opening and closing cere-
monies honoring participants in the project; 
‘‘(K) involve youth who are participating in 
the project in the design and planning of the 
project; and 
‘‘(L) provide training, which may include 
life skills, financial education, and employment 
training, in addition to training concerning the 
specific community service to be provided 
through the project, for the youth; and 
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‘‘(3)(A) specifies project outcome objectives re-
lating to youth development or education achieve-
ment, community strengthening, and community im-
provement; 
‘‘(B) describes how the local provider will estab-
lish annual benchmarks for the objectives, and annu-
ally conduct an evaluation to measure progress to-
ward the benchmarks; and 
‘‘(C) provides an assurance that the local pro-
vider will annually make the results of such evalua-
tion available to the organization. 
‘‘(c) CONTINUED ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to re-
ceive funds under this section for a second or subsequent 
year of a subgrant period, a local provider shall dem-
onstrate that all the projects for which the subgrant was 
awarded met the annual benchmarks for the objectives de-
scribed in subsection (b)(3). 
‘‘(d) SELECTION
OF SUBGRANT RECIPIENTS.—In 
awarding subgrants under this section, the organization 
shall ensure that projects are funded in a variety of geo-
graphic areas, including urban and rural areas. 
‘‘SEC. 163B. SUMMER OF SERVICE PROJECTS. 
‘‘(a) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A local provider that re-
ceives a subgrant under section 163A shall use the 
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subgrant funds to carry out a community service 
project. 
‘‘(2) SPECIFIC USES.—The local provider may 
use the subgrant funds, to pay for— 
‘‘(A) hiring staff to administer the project; 
‘‘(B) developing or acquiring service-learn-
ing curricula for the project, to be integrated 
into academic programs, including making 
modifications for students who are individuals 
with disabilities and students with limited 
English proficiency; 
‘‘(C) forming local partnerships to develop 
and offer a variety of service-learning programs 
for local youth participating in the project; 
‘‘(D) establishing benchmarks, conducting 
evaluations, and making evaluation results 
available, as described in subparagraphs (B) 
and (C) of section 163A(b)(3); 
‘‘(E) conducting outreach and dissemina-
tion of program-related information to ensure 
the broadest possible involvement of local eligi-
ble youth and community partners in the 
project; 
‘‘(F) conducting ceremonies as described in 
section 163A(b)(2)(J); 
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