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The Corporation for National and Community Service is the nation’s largest grant maker supporting service and volunteering. Through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, opportunities are provided for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to express their patriotism while addressing critical community needs.
Compassionate Kids is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to teaching children compassion through volunteerism. The website provides articles, book reviews, and free printable activities for parents and educators. The organization also has local chapters around the country that host field trips and volunteer events once a month.
Children, Inc.’s Mayerson Service Initiative hopes to develop children into valued community members of change. The initiative provides lesson plans, projects, and trainings to help educators create customized projects for their schools.
This organization conducts, collects, and funds research on the civic and political participation of young Americans. It is a great source for the latest statistics and trends on youth civic engagement topics.
A site that is typically geared for college campuses, but it has a multitude of resources on civic engagement, integration with academic study, and program models.
The Red Cross provides volunteer opportunities for youth as well as adults through clubs implemented in their schools.
Here are some ideas for high schoolers who have a requirement to fill or want to get involved in their community.
RFK Community Schools is comprised of six autonomous Pilot Schools that were built to relieve underperforming and overcrowded schools located in the historically underserved neighborhoods of Pico-Union and Koreatown. Students are given a personalized instructional program that will help them be successful in their futures.
The role of the National Center is to build the capacity of schools, districts, community partners and government agencies to help them create a school that centers around student success. By providing training, consultation, facilitation, materials and advocacy, The National Center helps create community schools all over the country that provide students with the education they need to be successful.
The SUN Service System, which stands for Schools Uniting Neighborhoods works in communities to lead to educational success and family self-sufficiency through an integrated network of social and support services for youth, families and community members.
LSNA is a nationally recognized model of successful collaboration between a community organization and public schools, creating a community-centered school that serves immigrant families.
Lincoln Community Learning Centers (CLC) operates in more than twenty-four schools in Nebraska and follows the six “Community Learning Center Principles:” collaboration, integration of services, lifelong learning culture, outcome focused, community leadership, and neighborhood based. Lincoln CLCs utilizes a delivery system model that uses local schools to provide enrichment programs and supportive services for citizens of all ages in the community.