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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

How To … Increase the Youth Vote

Photo: Marc Nozell Here’s something you don’t often hear before an election: The youth vote is expected to be big. It’s...

Guest Opinion Essay

Time to Boost Service-Learning

Twenty-five years ago, when the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) opened its doors, service-learning was a little-known strategy for engaging young...

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Campus Compact

http://www.compact.org Campus Compact is a growing national network of more than 1,100 post-secondary educational administrators dedicated to promoting community service, civic...

News

An Ambitious Push for National Service

By Nancy Lewis More than 500 leaders and activists plan to gather in New York this month to launch what they hope...

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Social Citizens

The CASE Foundation Between 1989 and 2005 teenage volunteerism more than doubled, and now members of the Millennial Generation are using new...

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Getting Off My Butt and Doing Something

Vox, Atlanta Three years ago, I attended a political rally on the day of President Bush’s second inauguration. The protest centered on...

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Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority

Michael ConneryIg Publishing203 pages. $14.95. As the 2008 presidential election looms, political activist Connery strives to dispel the myth that young voters...

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OMB Watch’s Regulatory Resource Center

http://www.ombwatch.org/regs The U.S. Office of Management and Budget Watch recently launched this new sub-site to help citizens get involved in federal regulatory...

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StandUp

http://www.aclu.org/standup/index.html This site for the StandUp initiative of the American Civil Liberties Union features a comic strip on civil liberties issues, as...

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Empowering Young People

Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Youth Philanthropy Groups Merge

Two nonprofits completed a merger last month that combines their efforts to teach high schoolers how to initiate philanthropic ventures. Youth Re:Action...

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A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade

Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...

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Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World

Ken Beller, Heather ChaseLTS Press195 pages. $21.95. This inspiring collection introduces 20 remarkable people from around the world “who have made peace...

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Resources on Afterschool

www.youthrights.org This free online database of resources on how to run high-quality, sustainable, after-school programs is in its fifth edition. The site’s...

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Think MTV

www.thinkmtv.com In an effort to promote youth activism, MTV’s site offers a place for young people to learn about socio-political issues and...

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National Youth Rights Association

www.youthrights.org The association has expanded its website to include tool kits and multimedia presentations aimed at repealing age restrictions on voting, drinking...

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Tackling Tobacco

While smoking has decreased significantly among youth since the funding of anti-tobacco programs through the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, data from...

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