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Related Organizations
The list below contains links to organizations and resources related to civic engagement. We have divided them into categories for your convenience.
Higher-Education
Community Colleges
National Service Sites
K-12
Southern Region
Community Organizing/Partnerships
Higher Education
National Campus Compact: Resources
"Campus Compact's resources are designed to provide key information to those seeking to create, expand, or improve campus programs focusing on service, service-learning, or civic engagement. Resources here range from service-learning syllabi to information on the Federal Work-Study community service requirement."
HENCE
"The Higher Education Network for Community Engagement (HENCE) is a response to the growing need to deepen, consolidate, and advance the literature, research, practice, policy, and advocacy for community engagement as a core element of higher education’s role in society. Increasingly, higher education institutions are intentionally connecting academic work to public purposes through extensive partnerships that involve faculty and students in active collaboration with communities."
CIRCLE
"CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. Although CIRCLE conducts and funds research, not practice, the projects that we support have practical implications for those who work to increase young people’s engagement in politics and civic life. CIRCLE is also a clearinghouse for relevant information and scholarship."
Campus-Community Partnerships for Health
" Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions."
Solutions for Our Future
"Solutions for Our Future is a national project to increase awareness of the many ways in which American colleges and universities serve the public. Higher education addresses pressing societal needs by preparing the people who solve the problems and teaching people who change the world."
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U): Civic Engagement
"AAC&U has provided national leadership on the issue of diversity in higher education since 1971. AAC&U's work in this area has focused primarily on higher education's responsibilities in a diverse democracy and American pluralism, diversity, and justice-seeking as elements of a quality liberal education for all students." This website contains information on AAC&U initiatives, meetings/institutes, publications, and resources for teaching, learning, and funding.
Americans for Informed Democracy
"Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that brings the world home through programming on more than 1,000 U.S. university campuses and in more than 10 countries. AID fulfills its mission by coordinating town hall meetings on America's role in the world, hosting leadership retreats, and publishing opinion pieces and reports on issues of global importance. Through these efforts, AID seeks to build a new generation of globally conscious leaders who can shape an American foreign policy appropriate for our increasingly interdependent world."
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Community Colleges
Community College National Center for Community Engagement
"The Community College National Center for Community Engagement is a leader in advancing programs and innovations that stimulate active participation of institutions in community engagement for the attainment of a vital citizenry...Browse through our web pages and view the excellent service learning and civic engagement resources and services we offer, including:
- Service Learning and Civic Engagement Syllabi
- Training and Technical Assistance
- Funding Opportunities
- Awards for Service-Learning Collaborations
- Announceents to Upcoming Events and Learning Opportunities"
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Horizons Service Learning Project
"The goals of AACC’s national project, Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, are to build on established foundations to integrate service learning into the institutional climate of community colleges, and to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of service learning programs through an information clearinghouse, data collection and analysis, model programs, training and technical assistance, publications, and referrals."
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National Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service
"The Corporation is the nation’s largest grantmaker supporting service and volunteering. Through our Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, we provide opportunities for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to express their patriotism while addressing critical community needs."
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC)
"Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) operates America's premier website supporting the service-learning efforts of schools, higher education institutions, communities, and tribal nations. We offer timely information and relevant resources, thousands of free online resources, the nation's largest library of service-learning materials, national service-learning listservs, and reference and technical assistance services."
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K-12
National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
"Welcome to the NYLC Resource Center — an extensive, searchable library of articles, project examples, and downloadable tools related to service-learning! Search our offerings, or browse our toolboxes for easy access to information on key topics."
Youth Service America
"Youth Service America (YSA) is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally."
NC Civic Education Consortium
"The North Carolina Civic Education Consortium works with schools, governments, and community organizations to prepare North Carolina's young people to be active, responsible citizens."
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Southern Region
Southern Regional Education Board
"Founded in 1948, the Southern Regional Education Board is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works with leaders and policy-makers in 16 member states to improve pre-K through postsecondary education."
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Community Organizing/Partnerships
The Center for Community Change
"From the very beginning, the Center’s purpose has been to help establish and develop community organizations across the country, “bring attention to major national issues related to poverty,” and “help insure that government programs are responsive to community needs.”
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