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Engaging in Sustainable Community Change: A Community Guide to Working with a Coach

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:40:32 -0500

This guide is a resource for coaches who are currently working on or are planning to work with communities to promote change.

Engaging Youth in Community Change

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:34:18 -0500

This Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match report summarizes the learnings from a meeting of two Making Connections sites -- Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island -- when ke

Online Resources for Identifying Out-of-School Time Programs

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:46:25 -0500

A new Child Trends brief helps funders, administrators, and practitioners find evidence-based programs that may be appropriate for their target populations and communities. The Guide provides an overview of 22 resources and 12 searchable online databases that offer information on a range of evidence-based intervention programs.

CCRY: Communities Collaborating to Reconnect Youth Network

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:46:37 -0500

CLASP facilitates the work of the Communities Collaborating to Reconnect Youth (CCRY) Network. The CCRY Network empowers communities to create effective, innovative partnerships among local youth-serv

Get Help, Give Help: New Summer Service Initiative

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:26:25 -0500

President Obama recently announced a new summer service initiative in partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service. Local service projects can find volunteers and volunteers can find projects in education, health, energy, the environment and more.

Search Institute's 2009 Conference

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:58:02 -0600

The Search Institute conference (November 5-7, 2009 in Cincinnati) brings together people from different community sectors nationally and internationally who share a common goal: to work together to p

Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:42:53 -0600

The second edition of this Forum for Youth Investment report has information on program observation tools -- a good resource for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers trying to choose or develop such measures.

Run to Vote: High School Students Leading a 48 State Voting Drive

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:05 -0500

Run to Vote combines the sport of track and field with your pledge to vote in 2008.

Toolkits for Community Change

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:58:28 -0500

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.

Doing Good Together

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:54:59 -0600

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.

Teens Lead Drive Against Hunger

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:22:05 -0500

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.

International Conference on Volunteer Administration

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:57:08 -0500

Start: Nov 2 2005 - 7:00pm

End: Nov 5 2005 - 5:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT+5

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.

United Way of America

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:04:16 -0500

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

CASA of the 18th JDC

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:44:57 -0600

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

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:52:01 -0500

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