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The 2012 National Conference on Volunteering and Service will be June 18 - 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois!
A program of Points of Light Institute, this annual event provides attendees with an...
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This page on the AmeriCorps.gov website lists contact information for service programs that want to work with AmeriCorps.
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The interactive program selector requires the answers to four basic questions — “Who are you?” “What do you want to do?” “What types of resources are you seeking?” and “How long would you like to...
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This page provides a link that launches an interactive program selector for help in determining which of the Corporation’s seven AmeriCorps programs best fits an organization's needs.
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This page on the AmeriCorps.gov website provides a brief overview of the differences between AmeriCorps State, AmeriCorps National, AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC. Includes links to the...
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The Resource Center is funded by the Corporation for National & Community Service to provide tools and training to volunteer and service programs.
Our online publications, courses, effective...
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This guide was developed to support reading programs and reading tutors in their work to accomplish the major goal of the America Reads Challenge: To ensure that every child can read independently...
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Sandra Naughton's National Service Fellows report, Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-Based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time, offers...
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The loss of a parent to incarceration has a tremendous impact in the life of a child. For adolescents who are dealing with other difficult life issues, having a safe way to express their thoughts and...
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Research has found that as girls enter adolescence their capacity to "find their own voice" and express their authentic selves conflicts with new social pressure to maintain tension-free...
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A partnership between a popular bakery chain and schools in low-income areas of the United Kingdom ensures children receive a healthy breakfast to start the day, while the bakery is able to promote a...
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With adult mentoring and community support, an after school program in Franklin County, Ohio focuses on encouraging at-risk junior high school youth to make positive life choices —...
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School administrators in Boyd County, Kentucky coordinated a multi-district method for students to promote character education and become volunteers. Middle and high school students from three school...
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In working to support youth success there often exists a gap between schools, families, and communities that could be bridged by creating partnerships among members of these groups. This effective...
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In Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, faith-based institutions, supplied with funding, pedagogy, and training from Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), promote literacy while enhancing their ability to...
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Creating an effective service project or service-learning program requires careful planning. This effective practice describes ten steps that teachers, parents, after-school providers and those who...
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Each year, in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of watersheds. Children in...
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The Western Sussex Boys & Girls Club of Delaware offers free on-site babysitting to parents with infants so the parents can attend activities with their other young children. Trained teenage...
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Pulling it Together: A Method for Developing Service-Learning and Community Partnerships Based in Critical Pedagogy is a guide to creating service-learning programs and activities that are developed...
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Technology education works best when students are given a hands-on setting. Oftentimes alternative students learn better through this type of experiential education, rather than from lectures and...
