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Clearinghouse Advisors
Advisors to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provide sector-specific guidance and expertise to insure a responsive, contemporary, and vibrant NSLC. Search Institute Search Institute is the NSLC program advisor for community-based service-learning. Meet the Program Advisors from each sector of our service-learning community.
Community-Based Tools
"Building the Organizations that Build Communities: Strengthening the Capacity of Faith- and Community-Based Development Organizations"
A 301-page publication from HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research and available free online, addresses key issues in expanding the capacity of faith-based and community organizations.

The YMCA Civic Engagement Guide: Strategies and Tools for Increasing Civic Engagement
A practical online resource with best programs and practices to assist YMCA staff and volunteers and their community partners in promoting the development of civic engagement attitudes, skills, and behaviors in youth.

Partnerships For After-School Success Tool Kits
Created by the National Collaboration for Youth, these toolkits provide research supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships, successful strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships, and checklists and tools.

Community-Based Organization (CBO) Toolkit
The Missouri State Service-Learning Advisory Council created this toolkit that contains information on principles of good practice, partner benefits, elements of a successful partnership, a readiness checklist, and more.

Meeting of Minds: A Handbook for Community-Campus Engagement
This handbook, by CCPH Fellow Nola Freeman, is focused on higher education partnerships, but can also be useful to the community partners who work with K-12 schools.

"Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development"
A new publication from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) and is designed for mentor program coordinators, agency or organizational staff, board members, and others.
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