Run to Vote combines the sport of track and field with your pledge to vote in 2008. A nonpartisan voting drive led by students and teachers from Granville Central High School in Stem, North Carolina, the Run to Vote team is traveling through 48 states to register people to vote, and collecting pledges to participate in the election this November. For every person that registers to vote or pledges to vote, one of the teachers, or volunteers from the team, will run the equivalent lap on a quarter mile track. Through July 5, 2008, the team has run 814 laps, registered 153 people in 18 states and collected more than a thousand citizen pledges to vote.

The Innovation Center offers excellent, free guides to mapping community strengths and needs, engaging youth and adults together, planning civic and local action—and creating lasting change in communities and for participants. You’ll want to bookmark this library! For lessons learned and strategies to engage youth and create effective community programs, visit the Research Pages.

Doing Good Together is a nonprofit organization that encourages, supports and educates parents and caregivers who want to engage with their children in volunteering, charitable giving, and social, environmental and political action.

Every year, teens in a region of western Illinois and eastern Iowa launch a six-week race to collect as much donated food as they are able. Lee Nelson reports on a 20-year history of friendly competition in the service of fighting hunger.

The Association for Volunteer Administration will bring together individuals who want to lead volunteers for its 2005 international conference, entitled "Waves of Change, Oceans of Opportunity: A New Dawn of Volunteer Administration." The conference will be held in Jacksonville, Florida, from November 2-5.

Connect with United Way resources and tap into local ongoing activities.

The mission of CASA of the 18th JDC is to recruit and train community volunteers to be a powerful voice for all abused and neglected children in the court system.

Volunteers of America provides local human service programs and opportunities for individual and community involvement. To find volunteer opportunities in your community enter your zipcode at Volunte

More than just a fund-raiser for local schools, the PTA analyzes and takes a stand on many issues before Congress that make a difference for public schools.

Kids Care Clubs provides young people with hands-on volunteer opportunities to help others in their local and global communities.