Service Learning/Community Service Web Sites

CIAC offers this page to our visitors to assist you in opening the door to a cornucopia of information relating to service learning and community service. We do not, however, assume responsibility for the content of these resources.It is our goal to maintain the correct addresses for these sites but if you should come across one that is incorrect or has been dropped or if you know of a site that should be added, please e-mail us and let us know.

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• General Service Sites
• Civic Participation
• Youth Service-Related Sites
• Service-Learning & Education-Related Sites
• Environmental Resources
• Statistical Information
• International Service Organizations
• Non-Profit Resources/Clearinghouses
• States' Commission for National Service
• Mentoring
• Hunger and Homelessness

General service sites

• AmeriCorps Network Northwest
• AmeriCorps Resources
• Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
• Corporation for National Service
• Hands On Atlanta
• Volunteer Match
• Friends of VISTA
• Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources

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Civic Participation

•  Moving Ideas Network
• "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital"

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Collegiate service-related sites

• Break Away: The Alternative Break Connection
• City Year

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Service-learning and Education-related sites

• Berkeley Service Learning
• Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges
• CASE (Citizenship and Service Education)
• Eastern Michigan University Office of Academic Service Learning
• The Howard R.Swearer Center for Public Service
• SCALE (Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education)
• University of Colorado Service-Learning Center
• University of Michigan Office of Community Service Learning
• University of Pennsylvania Program for Student-Community Involvement
• US Department of Education

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Environmental Resources

• San Francisco Conservation Corps
• Vermont Youth Conservation Corps

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Statistical Information

• Kids Count, from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
  Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States.
• Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI)
  Press Release of the 1998 Freshman Survey. "Volunteerism continues to climb," UCLA survey finds. Read a January 25,1999 CIRP press release of the results from the 1998 College Freshman Survey (text version).
• Community Service Performed by High School Seniors,
  National Center for Education Statistics, Oct. 1995
• The Council on Foundations
  The Council on Foundations, an association of foundations and corporations, serves the public good by promoting and enhancing effective and responsible philanthropy.

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International service organizations

• Habitat For Humanity International
• Peace Corps
• Volunteers For Peace International Work Camps

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Nonprofit Resources/Clearinghouses

• The Foundation Center

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State Commissions for National Service

• The Maryland Governor's Commission on Service
• The New Hampshire Commission on National and Community Service
• Utah Commission on Volunteers
• WA Commission for National and Community Service

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Mentoring

• Education Research Consumer Guide
• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

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Hunger and Homelessness

• National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness
• National Campus Hunger Cleanup
• Real Change News Org.

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