All posts tagged "Civic Engagement"

• 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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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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  Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement

  Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  CNCS Requires New Background Checks

  Call it service with a smile – and a background check. A new final rule issued by the Corporation for National and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Time to Serve: A Case for National Service

  TIME magazine Surveys show that while public confidence in the U.S. political system and government are near all-time lows, volunteerism and civic...

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  Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change

  The Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) These eight principles for engaging youth as partners in community change can help organizations and communities...