101 Ideas of Combining Service and
Learning, FIU
www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/ideas.html
This site offers discipline-specific
examples of service-learning activity.
America Reads Challenge
www.ed.gov/inits/americareads
Calls
on all Americans to support teachers and help ensure
that every American child can read well and independently
by the end of the third grade.
American Association of Community
Colleges (AACC)
www.aacc.nche.edu
Service Learning Clearinghouse
AACC provides information on its Service Learning
Project, a Best Practices Brief, and many other
resources for Community Colleges.
American Association for Higher Education
(AAHE)
www.aahe.org
AAHE is an individual membership
organization that promotes the changes higher education
must make to ensure its effectiveness in a complex,
interconnected world. AAHE offers a series on service-learning
in the disciplines.
American Humanics
www.humanics.org
Is
an alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofits
preparing undergraduates for careers with youth and
human service organizations.
Americorps
www.cns.gov/americorps
Is the
national service program that allows people of all
ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education
in exchange for a year of service.
Association for Experiential Education
www.aee.org
AEE
is a non-profit, international professional organization
with roots in adventure education, committed to the
development, practice, and evaluation of experiential
learning in all settings.
Break Away
www.vanderbilt.edu/breakaway
It's mission
is to promote service on the local, regional, national
and international levels through break-oriented programs
which immerse students in often vastly different cultures,
heighten social awareness and advocate life-long social
action.
Campus Compact
www.compact.org
This
site from Campus Compact provides information about
conferences, awards, service-learning syllabi and national
initiatives.
Corporation for National Service
www.cns.gov
This
site provides information on Americorps, Learn and
Serve, Senior Corps, America Reads, National Service
Scholarships and much more.
City Year
www.city-year.org
It's
, an Americorps
program, is a national service program which unites
young adults, ages 17 to 23, from diverse racial,
cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding
year of full-time community service, leadership development
and civic engagement.
Florida Campus Compact
www.floridacompact.org
It's a part of the national organization described above,
actively serving a growing number of 35 higher education
institutions in Florida . Our membership currently includes
nine of the state universities, nine private institutions
and 12 community colleges. FCC works with these campuses
to integrate service with academic study and provide
a collegial experience for inter-campus and community
collaborations.
Habitat for Humanity
www.habitat.org
Brings
families and communities in need together with volunteers
and resources to build decent, efficient housing.
Hunger Web
www.hunger.brown.edu/hungerweb
This site
helps to prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating
the free exchange of ideas and information regarding
the causes of, and solutions to, hunger.
International Partnership for
Service-Learning
www.studyabroad.com/psl
Has
originated, designed and implemented international
/intercultural service-learning since 1982.
Learn & Serve America
www.cns.gov/learn/index.html
Is
a grants program that supports teachers and community
members who involve Learn and young people in service
that relates to studies in school. More Specifically,
Learn and Serve America Funds service-learning programs.
National Coalition for the Homeless
www2.ari.net/home/nch
Is
a national advocacy network of homeless people, activist,
service providers and other committed to ending homelessness
through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots
organizing and technical assistance.
National Institute for Literacy
www.nifl.gov
This
site provides important information about literacy.
The National Service-Learning
and Civic Engagement Research Directory is
an aggregation of search pages of primary online resources
on service learning and civic engagement research
in K-12 education, teacher education and higher education.
National Service Learning Clearinghouse
www.nicsl.coled.umn.edu
This
clearinghouse collects and disseminates information
for Learn and Serve America and the service-learning
field. Includes Databases, Resources, and Links.
National Society for Experimental
Education (NSEE)
www.nsee.org
Is a membership association
and national resource center that promotes experience-based
approaches to teaching and learning.
Peace Corps
www.peacecorps.gov
Volunteers
have been fighting hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty
and lack of opportunity around the world since 1961.
This site offers valuable information about the programs
and impacts.
Points of Light Foundation
www.pointsoflight.org
The
Foundation's mission is to engage more people more
effectively in volunteer community service to help
solve serious social problems. This site offers valuable
resources.
Scholarship of Engagement
www.scholarshipofengagement.org
Is
a website designed to provide external peer review
and evaluation of faculty's scholarship of engagement;
as well as to provide consultation, training, and
technical assistance to campuses who are seeking to develop
or strengthen systems in support of the scholarship of
engagement.
ServeNet
www.servenet.org
Provides
a forum for individuals interested in volunteering
and community organizations to come together online.
Service-Learning: The Home of
Service-Learning on the World Wide Web
csf.colorado.edu/sl
Hosted
by Communications for a Sustainable Future. This is
a comprehensive service-learning site, offering articles,
bibliographies, syllabi by disciplines, listings of
campus-based programs and much more.
Stand for Children
www.stand.org
Is
a national organization that encourages individuals
to improve children's lives. Stand for Children identifies,
trains and connects local children's activist engaging
in advocacy, awareness-raising and service initiatives
on an ongoing basis as part of Stand for Children
Chapters.
Student Coalition for Action in
Literacy Education SCALE
www.unc.edu/depts/scale
Is a national organization
that mobilizes college students to address the literacy
needs of this country through partnership with community
agencies, service organizations, new readers, students,
faculty and administrators.
Thoughts on Service and Learning
from Aesop to Maya Angelou
k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~service/quotes/quotes.html
These service
and learning quotes will inspire your work.
United Way
www.unitedway.org
Is a national
system of volunteers, contributors and local charities
built on the proven effectiveness of local organizations
helping people in their own communities.
Who Cares
www.whocares.org
Publishes information
to help people create, grow and manage organizations
for the benefit of the common good, and to foster
a sense of community among social entrepreneurs nationwide.