Service Learning and Volunteer Programs
Youth Service America (YSA) supports a culture of youth committed to service learning by promoting campaigns, resources and projects on their website. YSA works hard in order to ensure that kids from diverse backgrounds have the tool to serve in their communities.
Grounded in academics and linked to real life, Learning to Give lessons and resources apply from kindergarten through high school. Our mission is to provide quality, inspirational, and field tested tools to help K-12 teachers educate, equip, and empower their students to be giving and caring citizens.
Provides information on the 2010 National Learn & Serve Challenge. Schools or organizations can sign up for a 9 month initiative and create an action plan by accessing a free toolkit online. Each plan will start in January, will be filmed, and then shared on the website.
A PDF file that is a guide on how to integrate service-learning into a K-12 curriculum.
A comprehensive site that includes information about service-learning, provides project and curriculum ideas, and allows users to share their own service learning experiences.
Provides resources for volunteers, nonprofits & government, companies, teachers, educators and everyone else who is interested in social change through service-learning opportunities.
A volunteer resource center that lists volunteering opportunities.
Habitat for Humanity partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage.
Information about protecting and restoring Forests for Life and find the different ways you can make a difference.
366 community service ideas for service clubs at schools.
A primer for teachers interested in starting a service-learning project.
Provides a link to a PDF file that is a guide for starting and sustaining high quality service programs.