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Learn and Serve America makes grants to schools, colleges, and nonprofit groups to support efforts to engage students in community service linked to academic achievement and the development of civic skills. Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse operates America 's premier website supporting the service-learning efforts of schools, higher education institutions, communities, and tribal nations.
 The purpose of this page on Civic Engagement is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and resources on service-learning and civic engagement. Documents, such as PowerPoints of webinars, will be posted here periodically for download. The information and documents on this page were created by members of the Civic Engagement Affinity Group. For more information on this affinity group, please contact Scott Richardson at srichardson@cns.gov.
 
   
 Why We Vote (462K ppt)
  David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame
  A PowerPoint on "How Communities and Schools Shape Our Civic Life." Used at the Wednesday, May 30, 2007 conference call (3:00 pm EST).
   
 The State of Youth Civic Engagement (5140K ppt) or (353K pdf)
  Peter Levine, CIRCLE
  A PowerPoint on the "Civic and Political Health of the Nation" survey (2006). Used at the Wednesday, November 29, 2006 conference call (3:00 pm EST).
   
 The Nexus Among Civic Responsibility, the California Content Standards, and Service-Learning (396K pdf)
  Michael Brugh, CalServe Initiative
  This publication provides teachers, district service-learning coordinators, and others with examples of how to integrate civic responsibility into service-learning experiences. The report shows the nexus among civic responsibility, service-learning, and the California academic content standards.
   
   
   
 
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