All posts tagged "Civic Engagement"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Service in the Summer

  Seeking to combine the potentially idle summer months with youth volunteerism, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is appealing to...

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  The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research

  Corporation for National Service By helping others, volunteers appear to help themselves live longer, function at higher levels and reduce depression, says...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Service Without Guns

  Donald Eberly and Reuven Gal Lulu Self Publishing (ID 231571) 196 pages. Free to download; $25 in print. Fostering a culture of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Ripple Kids

  www.ripplekids.com By publicizing the good works of kids across the nation, the nonprofit Ripple Kids hopes to inspire and empower other youth...

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  Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement among Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances

  Corporation for National and Community Service Teens from low-income backgrounds who volunteer become empowered and are more likely to become politically engaged,...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Groups Win $1 Million for Social Change

  Organizations that focus on youth have won five of the ten $1 million prizes to be given out this year through the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Community Service Giants Explore Merger

  Two of the nation’s premier nonprofits in community service and volunteering – the Points of Light Foundation and the Hands On Network...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Beyond Planting Trees

  Like a lot of community-based organizations aimed at troubled youth, the Oasis Center in Nashville began by trying to do a lot...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Seattle Youth Garden Works

  Seattle, Wash. (206) 632-0352 http://www.sygw.org Objective of the program: Provide job training to homeless and underserved youth. In a Nutshell: Seattle Youth...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Fatuous Promises May Yield Promising Profit for Kids

  Source: America’s Promise, grant proposal to CNCS, 2002 Could it be a decade since the “ready, fire, aim” Philadelphia launch of America’s...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  NASCC Trims Its Name to the Corps

  The National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (NASCC) has launched a rebranding effort that includes a new name, logo and motto....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Mandatory Senior Projects are Too Career-Oriented

  20 BELOW, Eugene, Ore. I don’t want to bash someone’s grand plan to help high school kids, but something has to change. School...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Awards for March 2007

  Laura Bush presents Alicia Guadalupe Montero Perez, center left, and Ingrid Janet Noh Canto, center right, both of La Chacara Children’s Cultural...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Find Treasure in Mapping

  Back in 1992, Richard Murphy guided 2,100 youth in plotting some 7,000 resources in their New York City neighborhoods – everything from...

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  Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Why So Silent About the War?

  American youth development programs, like the American people, are all over the place when it comes to helping young people learn and...

• Dissecting Civic Engagement

  Washington, D.C. — While studies by researchers and observations by youth organizers have hailed a rise in young people’s civic engagement in...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  After Katrina: YouthBuild Hammers Back

  North Gulfport, Miss. — An unforgiving sun beat down, making the work of rebuilding a partly leveled city all the more burdensome....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Temple Youth VOICES Project

    Philadelphia, Pa. (215) 204-6276www.temple.edu/voices Objective: To help youth develop their capacity to advocate for issues of concern to themselves and their...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Service-Learning: What Have We Learned?

  Youth volunteerism is being celebrated around the country in commemoration of National Service Day this month, but Andrew Furco recalls the resistance...