State Farm® now accepting applications for Associate Youth Advisory Board Members

Deadline for applications is April 13, 2007

Bloomington, Illinois, March 6, 2007 -- State Farm announces that Associate Board Member positions are available on its Youth Advisory Board.

The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is comprised of 30 young adults ages 17-20 from communities across the country and Canada with three at-large members representing State Farm’s national service-learning partners.  The Board’s mission is to create and oversee a signature service-learning initiative to address pressing issues that have a direct impact on communities. The Youth Board is responsible for identifying these issues, overseeing the site selections and grant making process, providing technical assistance to the site grantees, and assisting with communications and outreach.

Students selected to serve on the Board will serve as an Associate member in 2007, with the option to serve as a Board member in 2008.

Associate Youth Advisory Board members receive a $3,000 scholarship to be used for post-secondary education at a four-year, two-year or vocational training program.  For a second year of service, Board members receive a $5000 scholarship. 

“State Farm has a strong commitment to young people and to the leadership they provide.  We’re excited to engage youth in our work and to have them help us develop meaningful service-learning programs in communities across the United States and Canada” says Kathy Payne, State Farm’s Director of Education Leadership. 

The application deadline for the Youth Advisory Board is April 13, 2007.  Selected applicants will be notified by the end of May 2007.   Information and applications are available at:

• www.ysa.org
• www.nylc.org
• www.service-learningpartnership.org

About State Farm

State Farm® insures more cars than any other insurer in North America and is the leading U.S. home insurer. State Farm's 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees serve over 75 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.6 million bank accounts. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No.22 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit statefarm.com® or in Canada statefarm.ca™.

About the Youth Advisory Board

The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is a diverse group of 30 youth, ages 17-20, who were chosen through a competitive process to lead and oversee this $5 million/year signature service-learning initiative.  The Youth Board identified the issues, issued competitive grants and will now provide technical assistance, communication and oversight to site grantees. To learn more, visit the Youth Advisory Board web site.

About Service-learning

Service-learning is a teaching method which supplements classroom studies with hands-on projects that address pressing community issues and problems. To learn more about service-learning visit www.nylc.org, www.ysa.org, www.service-learningpartnership.org or the Service-learning page on statefarm.com .