High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Service-Learning Conference, first held in 1988 to serve as "the largest gathering of youth and practitioners from the service-learning movement." The conference is a program of the National Youth Leadership Council, and is co-hosted annually by partner organizations in the state or region where it is being held. Sponsors of the conference include the State Farm Companies Foundation, Youth Service America, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the Shinnyo-en Foundation. The conference focuses on service-learning as a way of teaching and learning that builds academic skills and citizenship while addressing community needs in a genuine way. It convenes teachers and other service-learning practitioners, administrators, researchers, policy-makers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, national service members, community-based organization staffs, and corporate and foundation officers.