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Corporation for
National Service
The
Corporation for National Service is the private-public partnership which
oversees such agencies as Learn and Serve America, Americorps, National Civilian
Conservation Corps and SeniorCorps. You can find out about new funding
initiatives, as well as locate general resources on service-learning here.
Do
Something
Do Something is a
national non-profit organization that inspires young people to believe that
change is possible, and trains, funds and mobilizes them to be leaders who
measurably strengthen their communities. They offer $500 grants to youth under
30 to implement service projects in their communities. Stop by this site for a
grant application and to find out more about the many other programs they
sponsor.
The Earth Day Project
To celebrate Earth Day
students decorate paper grocery bags with pro-environmental messages, and give
them to stores to use to hold customers' groceries.
Explorers'
Page
This page has a lot of
interesting things about recycling, plants and animals, air pollution, and other
environmental concerns.
Give Water a
Hand
Teachers can download
curriculum guides that will help classes perform service-learning projects with
a focus on improving local water quality.
Help the
Homeless
This site
teaches kids who the homeless are and what they can do to help them.
iEarn
Projects
http://www.iearn.org/projects/index.html
Check out this long
list of student projects organized into these areas: Creative and Language Arts,
Science, Environment, Math, and Social Studies. Participants may join existing
structured online projects, or work with others internationally to create and
facilitate their own projects.
Kids Can Make a
Difference
Kids Can Make A
Difference® (KIDS), an educational program for middle- and high school students,
focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected,
solutions, and how students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the
students to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize that
one person can make a difference. The best click, however, is the What Kids Can
Do page.
Kids Care
Project
This
project asks students to identify a community problem and develop an action
plan, including persuasive letters to influential people, to help combat this
problem. Suggested topics include neighborhood clean-ups, recycling, tree
planting, etc.
Make a
Difference Day
In
thousands of communities across the nation, an estimated 2 million people took
time to help others on The ninth annual Make A Difference Day, Saturday, Oct.
23, 1999. Learn what you and your students can do on the next Make A Difference Day.
National
Service-Learning
Clearinghouse
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse supports the
service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade
twelve, community-based initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others
interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning
techniques and methodologies.
The website features the latest service-learning news, a searchable library
catalog, NSLC publications available for order and download, bibliographies,
service-learning listservs, informative "how to" tool kits and an up-to-date
calendar of events.
Nonprofit Prophets
This is an
interactive project that challenges groups of students to investigate a problem
that they see in the world, and then create a World Wide Web Resource page on
the Internet that teaches the world about the problem. Typically, students
collaborate with local non-profit agencies that need a website.
Rainforest
Action Network
Find out
what you can do to help save the rainforest.
Youth Service
America
Enter your zip code to find
volunteer opportunities in your community.
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