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| Character Education Civic Engagement Civics, History, Politics, Law, Government, International Education, Teaching, Schools Environmental Service-Learning Youth - Development and Voice Other | |
| Character Education | |
| Character Education Partnership The CEP is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society. | |
| Communitarian Network The Communitarian Network organizes moral dialogues, develops Communitarian position papers, conducts public meetings, and advises legislatures and community groups regarding moral and social issues. | |
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Institute for American Values | |
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Jefferson Center for Character
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Josephson Institute of Ethics | |
| Civic Engagement | |
| Active Citizenship: Empowering American's
Youth Active Citizenship is a curriculum designed to teach the rights, responsibilities, and civic values of U.S. citizenship. It includes a service-learning group project in which students research and develop a solution for a real problem in their community. | |
| America's Promise The mission of America's Promise's is to mobilize people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth by fulfilling its "Five Promises" for young people. | |
| Center for Civic Engagement (University of
Texas) The CCE connects the University of Texas' academic mission to the community through community-based teaching and learning, volunteerism, and leadership activities. The center promotes projects in hands-on/action-oriented learning, civic education, service-learning, and active citizenship. | |
| Center for Democracy and Citizenship (University of
Minnesota) The Center for Democracy and Citizenship, a program of the Herbert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, develops citizenship initiatives around the concept of public work, based on the idea that citizenship is best seen as work, whether paid or unpaid, that has public meaning, lasting public impact, and contributes to the commonwealth. | |
| Civic Education Project CEP, an international non-profit organization, works to enhance the development of higher and professional education in societies engaged in political and economic transition, supporting grassroots efforts to reform higher education in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. | |
| The Civic Mind The Civic Mind website, keynote speeches, and consulting services are designed to help organizations and individuals realize their civic goals. | |
| Civic Practices Network CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project that joins together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the civic renewal movement and brings practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings. | |
| Council for Citizenship Education The purpose of the Council is to equip citizens of New York State and elsewhere with the knowledge and skills for thoughtful and effective participation in the public life of their local community, state, nation, and international system in the 21st century. | |
| Kids Voting USA Kids Voting USA is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization that fosters an informed, participating electorate by educating and actively engaging young people and their families in voting and other elements of effective civic engagement. Resources for teachers include K-12 Civics Alive! curriculum, and Destination Democracy, a series of forty-one high school service-learning activities. | |
| National Association of Secretaries of
State NASS is the oldest professional, nonpartisan organization of public officials in the United States. The association leads the debate on improving voter registration processes, increasing government services available over the Internet and promoting election reform policies at the state and national levels. Members have targeted programs that will increase young people's awareness of the democratic process. The New Millennium Project works to engage younger voters in the electoral process through the use of youth-friendly initiatives and by seeking non-traditional locations to offer voter registration to this age group. | |
| National Conference on Citizenship The NCOC aims to encourage effective participation in citizenship activities and to promote a spirit of cooperation on the part of all citizens. NCOC has undertaken a variety of programs and projects aimed at promoting civic involvement and civil dialogue. | |
| National Society for Experiential
Education The NSEE is a membership association committed to all forms of experiential learning - whether they happen in the classroom, workplace, or community. The Society is a strong advocate of partnerships that contribute to more dynamic classrooms, a stronger workforce, and thriving communities. | |
| Project 540 - National High School Civic Engagement
Initiative (Providence College) Project 540 (previously the National High School Civic Engagement Initiative) is a national high school civic engagement initiative with the purpose of engaging students in dialogue about issues they care about in order to enhance opportunities for community involvement. Students from 250 high schools, representing ten national sites, will participate as student leaders, dialogue facilitators, or participants in face-to-face or online dialogues. The project encourages active citizenship through a process that involves students joining with students to identify issues, map existing opportunities, and envision change. | |
| Public Achievement Public Achievement is an international youth initiative focused on citizenship, democracy and public work. They establish sites with the cooperation of schools and youth programs, recruit and train site coordinators and coaches, and work to draw young people to the program. | |
| Random Acts of Kindness Foundation The Foundation inspires people to practice kindness and to "pass it on" to others. They provide free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources to participants. | |
| The Saguaro Seminar (Harvard
University) The Saguaro Seminar will develop a handful of far-reaching, actionable ideas to significantly increase Americans' connectedness to one another and to community institutions over the next five years. The goal is to publicize a few approaches, networks, organizations, or strategies that are working but need to be exploited more broadly both to build effective social trust and reciprocity in neighborhoods nationwide. | |
| Study Circles Resource Center The SCRC is dedicated to finding ways for people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues. SCRC helps communities by giving them the tools to organize productive dialogue, recruit diverse participants, find solutions, and work for action and change. | |
| SURDNA Foundation A philanthropic organization supporting the environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, the arts, and non-profit organizations, among other things. | |
| Civics, History, Politics, Law, Government, International | |
| American Bar Association Division for Public
Education The mission of the ABA Division for Public Education is to promote public understanding of law and its role in society. | |
| American Political Science
Association APSA is the professional organization for the study of politics. The Association brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors in order to expand our awareness and understanding of political life. | |
| American Promise American Promise is devoted to helping teachers, professors and educators bring democracy to life in their classrooms. This site is a supplement to the videos and teaching guide produced for the original public television series. | |
| America's Story from America's Library (Library of
Congress) The Library of Congress created this site to allow users to have fun with history while learning at the same time. Much of the material presented is from non-book, primary source items, many of which are found only in the collections of the Library of Congress. | |
| Annenberg Public Policy Center The Center examines a number of public policy issues including: Information and Society; Media and the Developing Mind; Media and the Dialogue of Democracy; and Health Communication. It supports research and sponsors lectures and conferences in these areas. | |
| Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (Government
Printing Office) This guide is the educational component of GPO Access, the Government Printing Office's (GPO) free online service of official Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. It provides information and activities specifically tailored for educators, parents, and students in K-12. These resources can help teach about the U.S. government and how it works, as well as teaching about the primary source materials on GPO Access, and how citizens can use GPO Access in carrying out their civic responsibilities. | |
| Bill of Rights Institute The Institute offers sample instructional materials to help teachers meet standards and local requirements, while engaging students with relevant lessons on America's Founding and the Bill of Rights. | |
| Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Political Engagement Project PEP is a project to address the growing disengagement of young people from politics. In order to strengthen education for responsible, engaged citizenship among college students, this three year project documents and studies a diverse collection of academic courses and programs that represent creative approaches to undergraduate political education. | |
| Census in Schools The Census in Schools program promotes data literacy and increases awareness of Census Bureau products and activities by providing educators with teaching tools, resource materials, workshops, and other professional development opportunities. | |
| Center for Civic Education The Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to fostering the development of informed, responsible participation in civic life by citizens committed to values and principles fundamental to American constitutional democracy. It specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies, administering curricular, teacher-training, and community-based programs. | |
| Center for Politics (University of
Virginia) The Center for Politics (formerly the Center for Governmental Studies) promotes the value of politics and seeks to improve civic education and increase civic participation through comprehensive research, pragmatic analysis, and innovative educational programs. The center's flagship program, the Youth Leadership Initiative (http://www9.youthleadership.net/youthleadership/), is a national civic education program designed at increasing the political awareness of middle- and high-school students. | |
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Center for Information and Research on Civic
Learning and Engagement (University of Maryland) | |
| Chief Justice Chief Justice is an educational game designed to give the players an appreciation of the United States Constitution and of the U.S. democratic form of government. The game contains 100 critical thinking questions that incorporate moral and ethical issues. | |
| Choices for the 21st Century Education Project
(Brown University) Choices is a multifaceted educational program that seeks to engage the American public in the consideration of international issues and strengthen the quality of civic life. It offers a series of curricular materials that addresses current and historical international issues and provides workshops for teachers at the secondary level. The Capitol Forum on America's Future engages high school students in dialogue at their state capitol. | |
| Citizenship Foundation The Citizenship Foundation is a U.K. based, independent charity working to promote more effective citizenship through education about the law, democracy and society. | |
| Civic Education Project (Northwestern
University) Through school break programs and summer courses, the Civic Education Project (CEP) combines traditional education and community service to promote civic responsibility among young people. CEP offers high school and junior high school students opportunities to learn and serve in communities across the country, developing the knowledge, experience, and leadership skills they need to make a positive impact on society. | |
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Civics at Work: People, Government, and a Civil
Society | |
| CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation CIVICUS is an international alliance nurturing the foundation, growth and protection of citizen action throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. | |
| CIVITAS: An International Organization for Civic
Education CIVITAS International, a world-wide non-governmental organization for civic education, aims to strengthen effective education for informed and responsible citizenship in new and established democracies around the world. | |
| Civnet CIVNET, a website of CIVITAS International, is an online resource and service for civic education practitioners (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) promoting civic education all over the world. | |
| Close Up Foundation The Close Up Foundation is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan citizenship education organization. Since its founding, Close Up has worked to promote responsible and informed participation in the democratic process through a variety of educational programs. | |
| Constitutional Rights Foundation CRF is a non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization dedicated to educating America's young people about the importance of civic participation in a democratic society. | |
| Constitutional Rights Foundation
Chicago CRF Chicago helps young people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to serve their communities and nation as active, responsible citizens. | |
| Dirksen Congressional Center The Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution whose mission is to help people better understand the U.S. Congress and its leaders. | |
| First Amendment Center The First Amendment Center, an operating program of the Freedom Forum, works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, and the right to assemble and petition the government. | |
| First Amendment Schools: Educating for Freedom
and Responsibility First Amendment Schools, co-sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the First Amendment Center, is a national initiative designed to transform how schools model and teach the rights and responsibilities of citizenship that frame civic life in our democracy. The project serves as a national resource for all schools, K-12, public and private, interested in affirming First Amendment principles and putting them into action in their school communities. | |
| First Hand Learning First Hand Learning is a non-profit corporation promoting inquiry teaching, learning from direct experience, and closer links between cultural institutions and schools. | |
| Foreign Policy Association The FPA is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental, educational organization that educates Americans about the international issues. It provides impartial publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popular participation in, matters relating to those policy issues. | |
| Freedom Forum The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to the principles of free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum (the Forum's interactive museum of news), the First Amendment and newsroom diversity. | |
| Freedom House Freedom House is a leading advocate of the world's young democracies, which are coping with the legacy of statism, dictatorship, and political repression. It conducts an array of U.S. and overseas research, advocacy, education, and training initiatives that promote human rights, democracy, free market economics, the rule of law, independent media, and U.S. engagement in international affairs. | |
| Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge The Freedoms Foundation's education programs, collectively titled America's School for Citizenship Education, teach Americans about America. Each year, some 3,000 students from all 50 states take part in their educational programs that include U.S. history, constitutional rights and citizens' responsibilities, core values, and the private enterprise system. | |
| H.I.P. Pocket Change (U.S. Mint) The HPC is designed to be a fun, educational tool for students and teachers that generates interest in coins, the Mint, and United States history. | |
| Indiana University Workshop in Political Theory and
Policy Analysis The Workshop combines teaching, research, and related activities where faculty, visiting scholars, and students participate in productive scholarship related to institutional analysis and design. It is home to an extensive interdisciplinary research agenda and affiliated faculty in Economics, Political Science, Psychology, the Kelley School of Business, and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. | |
| Institute for Democracy in Eastern
Europe The IDEE is a not-for-profit corporation created to support the growing opposition movements in Eastern Europe seeking democratic change and an end to communism. The IDEE's Centers for Pluralism program is a region-wide effort to promote civic development through common initiatives and cross-border cooperation. | |
| International Foundation for Election
Systems By providing expert technical assistance in all areas of election administration and election management, IFES works to encourage national and international democracy. In addition to election monitoring, IFES seeks to bolster democracy by developing programs that strengthen rule of law, good governance and civil society. | |
| James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions (Princeton University) The program promotes teaching and scholarship in constitutional law and political thought. Under the leadership of its Director, and with the guidance and support of an Advisory Council of distinguished individuals from the worlds of law, business, philanthropy, and the academy, the James Madison Program sponsors and guides research and pedagogy at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral levels. | |
| Kettering Foundation The foundation undertakes research that focuses on finding ways to make democracy work better. | |
| LegiSchool Project The LegiSchool Project is a civic education collaboration between California State University, Sacramento, and the California State Legislature, administered by the Center for California Studies. The Project's mission is to engage young people in matters of public policy and state government by creating opportunities for students and state leaders to meet and share ideas on the problems affecting Californians. | |
| Mershon Center - Education for Democratic
Citizenship Program The mission of the Mershon Center is to promote the civilian study of military affairs, specifically focused on issues of international security, broadly construed. Currently, the focus of these studies seeks to address issues of international security. | |
| National Alliance for Civic Education NACE has more than 150 group and individual members committed to advancing civic knowledge and engagement. The mission of the Alliance is to work to help citizens across the country better understand the significance of effective civic education for a well-functioning democracy. | |
| | National Center for History in the Schools The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) aims to promote quality history education. NCHS has published over sixty teaching units that are the fruits of collaborations between history professors and experienced teachers of both United States and World History. |
| National Civic League The NCL is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to strengthening citizen democracy by transforming democratic institutions. The league accomplishes its mission through technical assistance, training, publishing, research, and the All-America City Awards, a community recognition program. | |
| National Conference of State
Legislatures The NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's fifty states, its commonwealths and territories. It provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL is an advocate for the interests of state governments before Congress and federal agencies. | |
| National Constitution Center NCC was established to increase awareness and understanding of the United States Constitution, the Constitution's history, and its relevance to daily life in the U.S. | |
| National Democratic Institute NDI is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. | |
| North Carolina Civic Education
Consortium The Consortium unites community partners, educators and children and youth to revitalize civic education for young North Carolinians. | |
| | Primary Source Primary Source is a non-profit center for the interdisciplinary study of history and the humanities. Their mission is to provide content-rich professional development programming that is historically accurate, culturally inclusive and explicitly concerned with racism and other forms of discrimination. |
| Program for Democratic Values and
Practices The Program for Democratic Values and Practices supports college- and university-level education for principled and responsible citizenship in a diverse democracy. | |
| Street Law Street Law is practical, participatory education about law, democracy and human rights. Through its philosophy and programs, it empowers the transformation of democratic ideals into citizen action. | |
| Supreme Court Historical Society The Society is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States by conducting public and educational programs, publishing books and other materials, supporting historical research, and collecting antiques and artifacts related to the Court's history. | |
| Teaching with Historic Places - National Register
of Historic Places TwHP uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. It has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom. | |
| United Nations Association of the United States of
America The UNA-USA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the work of the United Nations and encourages active civic participation. It educate Americans about the work of the United Nations, and encourages public support for strong U.S. leadership in the United Nations. | |
| United States Institute of Peace The USIP is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen U.S. capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict. The Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including grants, fellowships, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and other educational activities. | |
| Urban Agenda Project (Wayne State
University) The Urban Agenda is an international civic education project that uses the process of agenda building as a key means for preparing youth for their role as participants in a democratic society. It motivates learning of social studies, civics and communications. | |
| Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of
Democracy (Rutgers University) The Center concentrates on the analysis of democratic politics in the United States. It approaches democracy in the spirit of Walt Whitman's ideal of vigorous citizenry engaged in the culture and politics of a free society - democracy understood as a mode of living within political institutions. The Center serves as a site for faculty and graduate student research and conferences on important questions of democratic theory and practice. | |
| Warner Institute for Education in
Democracy The Institute is a web-based civic education learning tool for teachers and students. It is hoped that those students who participate in the program will gain a greater understanding and appreciation for representative democracy and its role in our society. | |
| World Affairs Council of Washington
D.C. The Council offers the opportunity to become more involved in the discussion of foreign affairs. It promotes education on world affairs in middle and secondary schools throughout the greater Washington area through the International Project for Educators. This project offers workshops for teachers, student leadership forums, a student overseas study tour, and an intensive summer institute, co-sponsored with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. | |
| You the People You The People is a school-based and a community-based participatory, interactive civics and citizenship study program. The program seeks to promote an active citizenry who participate in democracy, no matter what their political views, in a civil and skilled manner. It draws on the ideals of the U.S. Constitution and history of civil democratic discourse. | |
| Education, Teaching, Schools | |
| American Association for Higher
Education AAHE is the membership organization that serves its members, other individuals, communities, and institutions in the higher education community by building their capacity as learners and leaders and increasing their effectiveness in a complex, interconnected world. The AAHE Service Learning Project consists of a two-part initiative dedicated to the integration of service-learning across the disciplines. | |
| American Council of Trustees and
Alumni The ACTA is a nonprofit educational organization committed to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability on college and university campuses. It supports programs and policies that encourage high academic standards, strong curricula, and the free exchange of ideas. | |
| American
Federation of Teachers The AFT is a union representing teachers in the United States. | |
| American Society for Public
Administration ASPA is a public administration professional association, with a diverse membership of government and nonprofit administrators, scholars, teachers and students. Its mission is to advance excellence in public service. | |
| Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development ASCD is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing educators. It addresses all aspects of effective teaching and learning, such as professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building. | |
| Council of the Chief State School
Officers CCSSO, through leadership, advocacy, and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an American education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life. | |
| Council of the Great City Schools The Council of the Great City Schools is a coalition of 60 of the nation's largest urban public school systems. It serves as the national voice for urban educators, providing ways to share promising practices and address common concerns. | |
| Education Commission of the States ECS is an interstate compact created to improve public education by facilitating the exchange of information, ideas and experiences among state policymakers and education leaders. | |
| ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and
Communication (ERIC) This ERIC clearinghouse provides educational materials, services, and coursework in the language arts. | |
| National Association of Secondary School
Principals The NASSP strives to develop excellence in school leadership by providing members with various programs and services to guide them in administration, supervision, curriculum planning, and staff development. | |
| National Council for the Social
Studies NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies. | |
| National Education Association The NEA promotes the cause of quality public education, advances the profession of education, expands the rights and furthers the interest of educational employees, and advocates human, civil, and economic rights for all. | |
| Social Science Education Consortium The SSEC's mission is to improve social science education at all levels by promoting collaboration among social scientists and social studies educators. The Consortium conducts curriculum development projects, teacher-training workshops and institutes, and evaluation and assessment projects. | |
| Environmental | |
| Bridging the Watershed BTW is one of five "National Park Labs" programs that promotes national parks as learning laboratories and provides a model that can be replicated in other parks and watersheds. The program is based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. | |
| Earth Force Earth Force enables youth to discover and implement lasting solutions to environmental issues in their community. In the process they develop life-long habits of active citizenship and environmental stewardship. | |
| National Association for Conservation
Districts NACD unites conservation districts into one voice to helps them accomplish collectively what they could not accomplish alone. It develops national conservation policies, influences lawmakers and builds partnerships with other agencies and organizations. NACD also provides services to its districts to help them share ideas in order to better serve their local communities. | |
| North American Association for Enviromental
Education The NAAEE is a network of professionals, students, and volunteers working in the field of environmental education around the world. The Association promotes environmental education and supports the work of environmental educators. | |
| Office of Environmental Education (U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency) The OEE aims to advance and support education efforts that develop an environmentally conscious and responsible public. | |
| Project Learning Tree PLT, a program of the American Forest Foundation, is an award winning, broad-based environmental education program for educators and students in PreK-12. The program teaches students environmental content that correlates to national and state standards in science, social studies, language arts, math, and other subjects, and strengthens their critical thinking, team building, and problem solving skills. | |
| Sierra Club The purposes of the Sierra Club are to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. | |
| Service-Learning | |
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Corporation for
National and Community Service | |
| Educators for Community Engagement Educators for Community Engagement is a national organization dedicated to service-learning. Members strive to integrate learning and service within the diverse communities in which they work and live. | |
| Learning In Deed Learning In Deed is a national initiative, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, developed to engage more young people in service to others as part of their academic life. The initiative will encourage more school systems across the country to adopt service-learning, making quality service-learning opportunities available to youth in every classroom in grades K-12 throughout the country. | |
| National Center for Learning and Citizenship
(Education Commission of the States) The National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) is an organization of chief state school officers, district superintendents, service-learning professionals and others who support service-learning. Members are committed to linking school-based service and service-learning to K-12 curriculum and to organizing schools to maximize community volunteer efforts. | |
| National Commission on
Service-Learning The National Commission is part of Learning In Deed which was established to broaden the use of service-learning in school districts across America. The Commission was established to bring a new level of public commitment to service-learning by developing recommendations and an action plan to make service-learning available to all K-12 students and encouraging adoption of service-learning among education leaders and policy makers. | |
| Young Citizens, Inc. Young Citizens (formerly known as National Helpers Network) programs are a resource for educators in schools, school districts, youth programs and community agencies nationwide who are interested in developing service-learning experiences. The programs support service-learning by creating and piloting innovative models, supporting educators through professional development, and producing curriculum materials and training tools. | |
| Youth - Development and Voice | |
| Do Something Do Something is a nationwide network of young people making a difference in their communities and taking action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make things better and then given the resources and support to bring their unique vision to life. | |
| Justice for Kids and Youth (Deparment of
Justice) This site provides resources for youth and teachers in the areas of crime prevention, civil rights, drug prevention, and cyberethics, among others. | |
| National Center for Neighborhood
Enterprise The NCNE provides community and faith-based organizations with training and technical assistance, links them to sources of support, and evaluates their experience for public policy. Societal problems addressed by NCNE's grassroots network include youth violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, homelessness, joblessness, poor education and deteriorating neighborhoods. | |
| Seeking Harmony in Neighborhoods
Everyday SHiNE is a national non-profit organization that uses art, music, technology and sports to engage and empower young people to take a stand, use their voice and impact their world. | |
| Student Voices The Student Voices Project encourages the civic engagement of young people by bringing the study of a local political campaign into the classroom. Working with school systems throughout the country, the project helps high school students study the issues and candidates in their cities' mayoral campaign. | |
| What Kids Can Do WKCD is a national nonprofit organization that documents the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose for an audience of educators and policy makers, journalists, community members, and students. Integral to WKCD's mission is connecting the previously separate fields of school reform, youth development, community development, service-learning, and school-to-work. | |
| Youth Activism Project The Youth Activism Project, formerly the Activism 2000 Project, is a private non-partisan clearinghouse organization with the aims of promoting civic engagement, training adults to collaborate with young people, promoting youth infusion on citizen task forces, school boards, community coalitions, organizations, etc., and sharing best practices and resources with nonprofit and governmental agencies. | |
| Youth Noise YouthNOISE is a group of young people, together with a group of adults, working to provide information to nonprofit partners that will spark youth action and voice. It is an initiative of Save the Children Federation, Inc., which is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of children and youth. | |
| Youth Service America YSA is a resource center and alliance of organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally, or globally. Its mission is to strengthen the effectiveness, sustainability, and scale of the youth service and service-learning fields. | |
| Youth Vote Coalition Youth Vote is a coalition working to increase the political involvement 18- to 30-year-old Americans. The coalition consists of over one hundred diverse national organizations representing hundreds of organizations and millions of young people. | |
| Other | |
| AmeriCorps AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. | |
| James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
(University of Maryland) The Academy of Leadership's mission is to promote leadership knowledge and practices that empower all those who strive for a just, equitable, and thriving society, particularly those who have been historically underrepresented in leadership. | |
| John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public
Policy (Ohio State University) The Glenn Institute's student programs engage students of all ages in the community, prepare them for leadership, and inspire them to follow Senator Glenn's example of active citizenship. | |
| National Archives & Records
Administration NARA is an independent federal agency that oversees the management of all federal records. | |
| NARA Archival Research Catalog The Catalog allows users to search for government documents through the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) database. | |
| National Endowment for Democracy The NED is a private, nonprofit organization aiming to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through non-governmental efforts. It makes hundreds of grants each year to support pro-democracy groups throughout the world. | |
| National Endowment for Humanities NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. | |
| Peace Corps The Peace Corps has three goals: to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women; to help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served and to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. | |
| Pew Partnership for Change The Pew Partnership is a civic research organization whose mission is to identify and document promising solutions and strategies crucial to strong communities. | |
| Smithsonian Smithsonian education programs serve teachers and students of all ages. PreK-12 students across the country participate in a variety of Smithsonian educational offerings on-site and through structured distance learning programs and print and electronic media. | |
| YMCA The nation's more than 2,400 YMCAs are the largest not-for-profit community service organizations in America, working to meet the health and social service needs of Americans. | |
