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National Service
Pennsylvania Service
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Higher Education Service
Service-Learning Discussion Forums
Assessment & other Tools
Technology
Action Organizations
National Service/ Service-Learning Links
Corporation for National Service
www.cns.gov
Learn and Serve America
www.learnandserve.org
National Service-Learning Partnership
www.service-learningpartnership.org/
Points of Light Foundation
www.pointsoflight.org
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
www.servicelearning.org
Jumpstart
www.jstart.org
AmeriCorps
www.americorps.org
World Wise Schools
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/index.html
Student Conservation Association
http://www.thesca.org
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
www.ascd.org
MLK Day of Service
www.mlkday.org
Senior Corps
www.seniorcorps.org
America's Promise
www.americaspromise.org
Project America
www.project.org
Association for Experiential Education
www.aee.org
Amizade
www.amizade.org
Earth Force
www.earthforce.org
Pennsylvania Service/ Service-Learning Links
Need in Deed - www.needindeed.org
Service-learning that starts with kids.
The Education Policy and Leadership Center - www.eplc.org
EPLC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization with a focus on state-level
education policy.
Student Conservation Association - Three Rivers Regional Office
http://www.thesca.org/regional_threerivers.cfm
Pittsburgh Council on Public Education - http://www.graduationprojecthelp.org/
- Community Champions for Children's Achievement
Amizade Global Service-Learning Center
Global service-learning opportunities for university faculty and students.
www.globalservicelearning.org
Amizade
Global Volunteer Opportunities - www.amizade.org
Gratz Youth Driven Service-Learning Center
www.gratzclusterydslc.org
Pennsylvania Mountain Service Corps
www.pmsc.org
University of Pittsburgh Student Volunteer Outreach
www.svo.pitt.edu
University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships
www.upenn.edu/ccp/
Generations Together
www.gt.pitt.edu
Slippery Rock Community Service-Learning Institute Graduate Studies
http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/gov/csli/
Penn Law School Public Service Program
www.law.upenn.edu
Character Education/ Civic Engagement Links
The Character Education Partnership
http://www.character.org/
Champions of Caring
http://www.championsofcaring.org/
CETAC: U.S. Department of Education Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center
http://www.cetac.org/
Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth
http://www.ccfy.org/civic/
Student Voices: A Civic Education Project
http://student-voices.org/
Assessment tools relating to civic engagement for youth:
A Guide to the Index of Civic and Political Engagement
http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/IndexGuide.pdf
Just Vote! Civic Participation and Service-Learning Curriculum
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/education/ForEducators/
ServiceLearning/asset_upload_file406_13897_13897.doc
note: the assessment tool is at the end of the curriculum document
List of Civic Education organizations from the American Political
Science Association
http://www.apsanet.org/content_7501.cfm
Higher Education Service/ Service-Learning Programs
University of Pittsburgh's Student Volunteer Outreach
http://www.svo.pitt.edu
University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/
Amizade Global Service Learning Center
The Amizade Global Service-Learning Center offers unique and exciting academic courses centered on cross-cultural service-learning experiences. Customize a course or participate on one.
www.globalservicelearning.org
Slippery Rock Community Service-Learning Institute
http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/gov/csli/
AT&T Center for Service Leadership at Penn State
www.sa.psu.edu/usa/att/
COOL to Serve
http://www.idealist.org/ioc/
Service-Learning Discussion Forums
Idealist.org for Teachers - http://www.idealist.org/teachers/talkwithothers.html
Connect with other teachers. Speak with people from all over the world. Join a discussion already in progress or start your own discussion.
21c Bulletin Board - PSLA (removed)
Assessment & other Tools
Education Seek: http://www.educationseek.com/
A complete directory of elementary, middle, and high schools in all 50 states.
Project Star - www.projectstar.org
A Corporation for National and Community Service sponsored technical assistance provider for evaluation. Set up your evaluation system and consider the outcomes as you look to improve your program.
National Communication Association - www.natcom.org/Instruction/sl-new/AssessmentResources.htm
Printable service-learning assessment for teachers, students and community members.
Youth on Board - www.youthonboard.org/organizationalassessment.pdf
Youth Voice assessment tool in PDF format.
Zoomerang - www.zoomerang.com
Design and conduct your own surveys.
TechSoup - www.techsoup.org
TechSoup is the technology place just for nonprofits including free resources and tools.
Share the Technology - http://www.sharetechnology.org
Free computers for schools.
Digital Divide Network - www.digitaldivide.net
News, articles, resources and tools to stay on top of the latest issues affecting the digital divide.
Technology Works for Good - www.technologyworks.org
- A Washington DC organization focused on providing a range of technology solutions for nonprofits of all sizes.
Children's Partnership - http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income/
Digital Divide - An audit of activities and opportunities.
Youth Learn - http://www.youthlearn.org/
Lesson plan, tips and techniques for integrating technology.
Digital Divide Manifesto
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/resources/teachwithtech.html
Science & Technology - http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/sciencetech/web/index.htm
Make your own webpage.
National Educational Technology Standards Project
http://cnets.iste.org/
Content Bank - www.contentbank.org
Helps community development organizations develop online resources.
Action Organizations
The Youth Policy Action Center
www.youthpolicyactioncenter.org
Youth Media: Literacy & Social Change Guide
http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2211.html
At the Table: Youth Voices in Decision Making
http://www.atthetable.org/
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
http://nichcy.org/
Fight for Your Rights
http://www.mtv.com/onair/ffyr/discrimination/
Club BraveKids
http://www.bravekids.org/kids/index.html
SADD - Students Against Destructive Decisions
www.saddonline.com
SHINE
www.shine.com
Art and Life Beyond Street Violence
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1997/jessesgone/index.html
Human Rights Campaign
www.hrc.org
Save Our Environment
www.saveourenvironment.org
Idealist.org for Teachers
http://www.idealist.org/teachers/index.html
Human Rights Resource Center
www.hrusa.org
National Coalition for the Homeless
www.nationalhomeless.org
NDPC/N - National Dropout Prevention Center / Network
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/
Youth in Action
http://www.youthlink.org/us/
Take A Stand - www.takeastand.com
Award-winning conflict resolution education program designed for middle and high school students that is presented on CD-ROM and video.
Educators for Social Responsibility - www.esrnational.org
Creating schools where young people want to be and teachers want to teach.
Bread for the World - www.bread.org
Seeking Justice. Ending Hunger.
FRAC - www.frac.org
Food Reasearch and Action Center
Just Think - www.justthink.org
Teaching young people about media. Teaching the world about young people.
NCCP - National Center for Children in Poverty - www.nccp.org
Identifying and promoting strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families.
Stand for Children - www.stand.org
Grassroots Solutions. Lasting Change.
State of the World Forum - www.worldforum.org
Transforming conversations that matter into actions that make a difference.
20/20 Vision - www.2020vision.org
20/20 Vision engages citizens in persistent, strategic and effective communication with policymakers to protect the environment and promote peace.
World Hunger Year (WHY) - www.worldhungeryear.org
WHY attacks the root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions that create self-reliance, economic justice and food security.
@Grass-Roots.org - www.grass-roots.org
Telling the stories of the nation's most innovative grassroots programs.
TakingITGlobal - http://www.takingitglobal.org/home.html?width=800
Inspire. Inform. Involve
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The Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance dissolved as of June 30, 2007. The website will stay posted for one more year, so please share the resources. We are sorry that we will not be able to answer any questions you may have. Good luck with all your future service-learning endeavors!