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Community Service: A Family's Guide to Getting Involved -- From Kids Health
Do Something: Young People Changing Their World -- Do Something is a nation-wide not-for-profit organization whose mission is to give young people the tools, inspiration, and opportunity to make a difference. Do Something is designed to foster youth leadership, citizenship, and character. Do Something focuses on three action areas: community building, health, and the environment.
Free Child: Connecting Young People and Social Change -- Free Child, a nonprofit program, encourages youth become empowered in their schools and communities. This site offers information and organizational listings that "support the actions, ideas, knowledge and wisdom of children and youth."
Habitat for Humanity Summer Youth Blitz -- A unique service experience for a diverse group of youth, ages 16 to 18, from high schools and youth organizations around the United States. During this two week program, 15 to 20 youth participants and adult leaders work on a Habitat house. In the evenings, youth participate in activities that focus on peer leadership, issues of social justice, the cycle of poverty, tolerance and team building games.
Humane Teens -- Humane Teens is the youth education affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. HumaneTeen seeks to educate and provide information to high-school students and their teachers about important animal issues and inspire youth to take action for animals
Learn and Serve America -- Up the ante of community service; integrate Service Learning. Service Learning is a teaching method that combines academic instruction, meaningful service, and critical reflective thinking to enhance student learning and civic responsibility.
The Student Conservation Association -- SCA was founded in 1957 and takes on 3,000 students annually to help to protect vital habitats, threatened wildlife, and other at-risk resources in our nation’s parks, forests and urban green spaces. This unique experience instills an ethic of conservation and inspires lifelong stewardship that benefits our members, our society and our environment.
Twenty Ways for Teenagers to Help People by Volunteering
VolunteerMatch.org -- Search for volunteer opportunities by area code and interest. Can limit to opportunities for teens by doing an advanced search.
Youth Noise -- " YouthNoise’s mission is to inspire and empower young people everywhere to catapult their passion and idealism into movements to sustain the planet." Find out about causes that affect your life, news stories, debate opportunities to make your voice heard, information on grants and awards for teens and a showcase of what YN teens are doing.
Youth Volunteer Corps -- Summer volunteer internships the YMCA. To reach the Plymouth YMCA, call 734.453.2904
Youth Vote Coalition -- The Youth
Vote Coalition is a national nonpartisan coalition of diverse organizations
dedicated
to engaging youth between
the ages of 18-30 in the political process.
TakingItGlobal: Inspire, Inform and Involve -- Taking It Global is an international organization headquartered in Toronto, Canada, led by youth and empowered by technology. It connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities. It works with UN agencies, major corporations and youth organizations to involve young people in global decision-making.
LifeWorks International-- LifeWorks offers global service learning projects for teens 14-19 combining service projects with travel, cultural immersion, and outdoor adventure.
Global Works -- Community Service, Language Learning and Adventure Travel programs for high school students.
Global Routes -- Global Routes, a tax-exempt non-profit, is a non-governmental, non-sectarian organization committed to strengthening our global community through voluntary work overseas. To this end, we design foreign exchange programs based on community service, bringing people with different world views together. Programs are available for high school and college students.
Developing Teen Peer Ed Programs
YEP - Youth Empowerment Project Ann Arbor community organization
Youth Activism Project – Kids Should be Seen and HeardA non-partisan organization formed to encourage young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply about.
updated 8/18/2006