Resources and Links
Service Learning
Service Learning
- The Home of Service Learning on the World Wide Web
The purpose of this site is to serve as a virtual guide to, and
library of, service-learning. Its primary focus is service-learning
in higher education. This site is run through the University of
Colorado at Boulder
National
Service Learning Clearinghouse
The Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
(NSLC) supports the service-learning community in higher education,
kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based initiatives and
tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening
schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.
Learn
and Serve
Learn and Serve America supports service-learning programs in schools
and community organizations that help nearly one million students
from kindergarten through college meet community needs, while improving
their academic skills and learning the habits of good citizenship.
Service Learning
Journals
Links to service-learning journals and journals with articles on
service learning.
Big
Dummy's Guide to Service-Learning
27 simple answers to good questions on: faculty, programmatic, student,
administrative, and nonprofit issues.
Education (Issues in Service)
Hunger and Homelessness
- Heifer International-Heifer
was founded on a simple belief: ending hunger begins with giving
people the means to feed themselves.
- World
Food Programs -WFP works to put hunger at the center of the
international agenda, promoting policies, strategies and operations
that directly benefit the poor and hungry.
Violence (Domestic, youth, urban)
- National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence - Dedicated to the elimination of personal and societal
violence in the lives of women and their children. Site provides
resources to local coalitions and other organizations.
- Family Violence Awareness Page
- Devoted to helping eliminate all family violence (including
child abuse) and to providing information about services.
Childabuse.org - dedicated
to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect, serving and strengthening
children and families.
Child Abuse-
Statistics, Research, and Resources - scholarly discussion of statistics,
and a bibliography on memory.
- Urban Peace -Right
to enjoy life free of the fear of violence and crime.
Coalition
to take on urban violence - Coalition to take on urban violence:
Black-on-black crime is group's focus.
Education/Literacy
-
Literacy.org - Joint project
from the National Center on Adult Literacy and the International
Literacy Institute. Provides national leadership in research
and development in the field of adult literacy.
-
National Institute for Literacy
- Strives to ensure that all Americans with literacy needs have
access to services that can help them gain the basic skills
necessary for success.
- National Center for Family
Literacy Homepage - NCFL is recognized nationally and internationally
as the leader in family literacy. The Family literacy can change
your life.
- U.S. Department of Education
-Department of Education website provides information on policy,
resources, research and statistics, as well as, the No Child Left
Behind program.
- National Education
Association- volunteer-based organization composed of public
school educators. Founded in 1857, the group works to advance
the cause of public education.
Racial Issues
- Race
Relations - stories from PBS's Online Newshour concerning
issues of race.
- HateWatch - combating
and containing online bigotry. Site features an activist center,
chat, and a directory of hate sites. Home to the domain adoption
program that aims prevent hate groups from getting domain names
they'd like to have.
Environment
- Pollution
Online- offers news, resources, and business listings for
the prevention industry.
- EnviroLink - dedicated
to providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date environmental
resources available. Includes current environmental news, local
opportunities for activism, OneWorld Magazine, and forums to discuss
environmental issues.
Religious Tolerance
Gender/Women's issues
- American
Civil Liberties Union- Women's Rights: Women's Rights Issues,
General Criminal Justice, Discrimination, Violence, Education,
Employment, Poverty/Welfare, Pregnancy/Parenting.
- Women's Issues-
The starting place to find extensive resources, links, features,
news, information, support and community relating to women and
women's issues!
Substance Abuse
Immigrant Issues
- Coaliton
on Human Needs - Recent immigrants to the United States tend
to face economic and social hardships at rates disproportionately
greater than the rest of the population.
Peacemaking/Non-Violence
- Peace Action - promotes
grassroots activism for nuclear disarmament, an end to weapons
trafficking, just economy, a democratic foreign policy, and an
informed electorate.
- United For Peace
- collaboration of national and international peace and social
justice organizations and local places of worship, peace centers,
and community organizations.
- Nonviolence Web -
home to many of the United States' most dynamic nonviolence groups.
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