IMLS’s Youth Action Committee is comprised of museum and library practitioners, educators and researchers in the formal and informal learning fields, policy makers, funders, representatives of organizations involved in youth services, and government agencies. The committee meets with grantees selected as case studies, identify criteria for effective practices in IMLS youth grants, provide expertise and commentary from the community that each represents, provide a broader, national context for discussion of IMLS youth grants, and develop a strategy for dissemination of results.