Hi, I'm Josh Hall, the founder of YSAcentral. My brother Spencer and I and our development team have spent almost 3 years working full time creating YSAcentral for LDS young and mid-single adults (check out the video above!). It's been our mission to unite together LDS singles all over the world and make communication and socializing simple to help keep our hope alive and the fire burning.

But we need your help to finish this much needed website. YSAcentral is 90% complete, without your financial contribution and your help spreading the word, we'll be forced to stop development and won't be able to launch it.

Up to this point, the entire YSAcentral project has been paid for by me personally at great sacrifice. Why? Because no YSA website existed that helps LDS singles overcome their unique challenges and I felt very strongly that one needed to be built. But sadly, due to conditions outside my control, I can't afford to finish the last 10% of development without your help. YSAcentral is an amazing and very robust social platform that requires money and a team of developers. If we don't reach our fundraising goal, YSAcentral is not going to happen.

This is where you come in and how you can help make it happen for millions of LDS singles like yourself or those singles that you know and love! We must reach our fundraising goal and in order to do so, I need you to do 2 simple but extremely important things:

Keep Our Hope Alive and Our Fire Burning

For us singles, our happiness and our desire to be our best selves is heavily influenced by our social situation and our outlook on our social opportunities. Out of all the things that we need as LDS singles, a social network that unites us all together online and offline is by far most needed to help keep our hope alive and keep the fire burning within us during this difficult period of our lives (see video).

Loss of Hope Brings Loss of Spirituality

For most YSAs, their greatest desire is to be married. Since marriage and the gospel are so intertwined together, when the hope of finding an ideal eternal companion is lost or seems unlikely, faith that once burned brightly now grows dim and their desire to live the gospel begins to fade and some, far too often, fall away. When opportunities are limited or non-existent in their own ward, being stuck socializing exclusively within that same small group of people month after month causes many to lose hope.

New Opportunities Bring New Hope

Hope of friendship, eternal marriage and a burning desire to live the gospel can be strengthened or restored when YSAs are able to frequently attend social activities where they can consistently and easily meet new people, see fresh faces, and have invigorating social interactions with singles from other wards in the area. YSAcentral makes this happen by breaking down communication barriers and makes socializing simple.

All YSAs Will Be Included, Involved & Accounted For

YSAs need to be social, to be spiritual, to be united and they need to belong; they need their own unique social network to unite around, be empowered and be touched by inspirational and spiritual messages while they are communicating online. Priesthood leaders will be more electronically enabled to more effectively serve, connect with, strengthen, communicate with and keep track of their young single adults of today.

A Social Network Built for LDS Singles by LDS Singles: Unites Everyone & Everything in One Spot

Being LDS and single, your lifestyle and social needs are very unique and differ greatly from the world's. It's not easy. We know! We're frustrated YSAs too! So we've built a website exclusively for YSAs and what we need:

• Every YSA, every activity, every announcement and all the social action within your entire region.
• Communication tools, uplifting & entertaining content, helpful info, regional directories, and more.
• Accessible anytime, anywhere and always up-to-date. Complete social information in real-time.
• No more social barriers. No more social despair. No more being excluded. YSAs are united!
• It's all in one spot; from activities to adventures, rides to roommates, hope to humor, dating ideas to making friends, you'll be enhanced personally, strengthened spiritually and enabled temporally.

You will be helping create something that enables, empowers and gives us hope! YSAcentral and MSAcentral, the platform specifically for mid-singles, will bless & enrich the lives of millions of singles for decades to come.

You can join this great cause by clicking the "contribute" button now. Whether it's $5 or 5,000, your contribution and efforts in spreading the word will make a huge difference. You will be happy knowing that you personally helped create something that makes our lives better and more vibrant. Will you join me and help make it happen for us LDS singles?

Website Platform Exclusively for YSAs

YSAcentral is a website platform exclusively for LDS singles and their leaders; structured and partitioned geographically using designations called Social Regions.

Unites Thousands of YSAs Together in One Big Social Circle within Social Regions

Social Regions are made up of all the YSAs attending wards within their boundaries.

Centralizes Everyone and Everything Geographically

Each Social Region gets their own self-contained website to allow everyone to get plugged-in and using the same communication platform, keeping all the information, communications, activities and events happening all around the Social Region centralized and easily accessible in one central spot.

Interactive Social Network YSAcentral is a safe, secure and centralized social network for YSAs to interactively exchange information, plan, socialize, learn, laugh, find, share and spark friendships; all designed to get them offline and socializing in person with a feeling of unity and confidence.	Activity Planning System YSAcentral Activity Wizard is an integrated activity planning, promoting & management system for activities big or small. It makes average activities amazing!	Communication Tool YSAcentral facilitates easy and real-time communication between everyone living within the same Social Region.

Help Us Help You

Without your efforts in spreading the word, we will not be able to reach our goal. To do so, we need you to take a minute to encourage members of your ward, your family and your friends all over the world to contribute by sharing the URL link to this fundraiser page. At the very least, they'll be interested in knowing about YSAcentral.

Those who are single, or know and love someone who is single will gladly want to contribute to help make this great cause happen, so please don't be shy in spreading the word! It's so easy!

EASY Ways to Spread the Word

• Click the facebook "Like" button (below the video)
• Email the link (click here or just copy & paste it)
• Post the link on Facebook & Email all your Facebook friends
• Post on your Blog or Twitter

Still need more incentive to help spread the word? How about every time a friend or family member visits this fundraiser page by clicking on your personal referral link you've shared with them, you earn points towards winning awesome prizes & gifts provided by our partners! Enjoy the prizes yourself or give them as gifts.

Earning prizes is easy. Just click on the "Get My Link" button below and you'll get your own personal referral link that you can use to help spread the word to all your friends, family and Ward members on facebook, email, your blog and text messages.

Your personal referral link goes directly to this page, but it's unique to you so we can keep track of your referral points. You can track how many points you've earned each day and see how you stack up with others helping spread the word. You can even make this a friendly competition in your Ward to see who can spread the word to the most people!

Check out a few of our awesome prizes below. To be eligible for the top prizes, we must reach our fundraising goal. With your help we can do it! Thank you so much for spreading the word!

Your much needed contribution will be used to complete the final 10% of development and for expenses related to launching this amazing social platform and communication tool.

Out of the $60k, we will be receiving $55,560 after deducting processing fees (Paypal 2.9% + .30 per trans. and Indiegogo 4%).

Use of funds based on reaching our $60k goal:

• Payment processing fees deducted by Paypal & Indiegogo: $4,440
• Payroll for our 6 person development team (3 months): $35,000
• Servers, development tools & operating expenses: $20,560

We would love to have passionate people like you help make YSAcentral be amazing in anyway you can. There are many ways you can help, but we especially would appreciate passionate and committed volunteers to help in the following areas:

• Web Development:
  PHP Expert (min. 8hrs per week committment)
• Graphic Design
• MySQL Database Optimization
• Official YSAcentral Reps to help promote and roll-out YSAcentral in their area

If you are passionate about making amazing things happen and changing the world, we'd love to have you be a part of our awesome volunteer team. To learn more about becoming a volunteer, click the link below: