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Center for Civic EngagementService-Learning Rescources Peace Corps AmeriCorps City Year Teach for America We build a diverse, highly selective corps of top recent college graduates and professionals—individuals of all academic majors, career interests, and backgrounds—who commit two years to teach in low-income communities and become lifelong leaders in pursuit of educational excellence and equity. During their two years, corps members go above and beyond traditional expectations to ensure that children growing up in low-income areas have more of the opportunities they deserve. At the same time, the corps members themselves gain the conviction and insight necessary to be lifelong leaders for fundamental change, regardless of their professional sector. If you would like to recieve more information about Teach for America click here. Teach NOLA This is a critical time for New Orleans and a potential watershed moment for public education in the United States. The reconfiguration of the city's schools following Hurricane Katrina provides a historic opportunity to transform one of the nation's lowest performing school systems. That transformation will not be possible, however, without a cohort of accomplished, goal-oriented teachers. As a teachNOLA teacher, you will use your experience, knowledge, and record of achievement to improve the lives of the city's neediest students. You will also become part of a powerful network of education leaders working to build a model for urban education reform. Are you interested? Click here to find out more. Green Corps Leadership Training Program Green Corps' one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you the best instruction and experience available to launch an organizing and advocacy career. Our program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on field experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and career placement in permanent leadership positions with leading environmental groups. If you want to gain the skills to run a campaign to defend old growth forests from corporate logging companies, protect local communities from pesticides, or start your own environmental group, apply to Green Corps' 2007-2008 Environmental Leadership Training Program. CIEE international teaching programs Into the chilly postwar world of 1947, CIEE launched the next generation of study abroad programs, the first since they’d been suspended during World War II. Senators and scholars worried about how to increase international understanding and establish trust between nations. As soon as there was enough capacity aboard trans-Atlantic ships to carry students, CIEE programs began teaching. Today, CIEE is composed of two interrelated but operationally independent entities based in Portland, Maine and Tokyo, Japan. Change it! The Change It program is an all-expenses-paid week of grassroots educational training in Washington, D.C., July 20 to 26, led by the experts from Greenpeace and other progressive organizations. Building on last year's success, the program will teach 200 dedicated full- and part-time students, ages 18 to 24, how to take on the toughest global challenges of our time. Change It provides an opportunity for student leaders already committed to protecting the environment, leading social change and taking action to learn the skills and tools they need to become effective leaders. Students will emerge from the program ready to engage in the efforts necessary to prevent global warming and address the most critical issues facing their generation. Washington Semester Program- Transforming Communities The Washington Semester Program is now accepting undergraduate applications for the fall and spring semesters of the 2008-2009 academic year, and scholarships are available.Click here for more information. The Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps Institute of Philanthropy and Voluntary Service Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until February 25, 2008. For more information or to start an online application, please visit the Web site at www.dcinternships.org/ipvs. Mission-Ink
Service programs & Non-Profits in New Orleans Do something good. Be Hands On. What can you do? Volunteer for a one-time project . When you volunteer with Hands On New Orleans, you join people from all backgrounds and experiences. You get a chance to explore issues that shape our community and develop your leadership and job skills. This grass-roots effort is born to transcend the pitfalls and barriers of bureaucracy with the energy of a generation waiting to create the U.S. of the future. It is a transparent, hands-on operation of volunteers based on the work ethic and passion of acting on that which needs doing. The reward for participation is not based on incentive and compensation, but instead on a social model where “by the people and for the people” becomes the model for the future. New Orleans families and Katrina Corps volunteers are the stars of the effort. Any external catalysts are there to recognize and validate the role of each family and volunteer. Their effort will be the embodiment of Muhammad Ali’s powerful insight that “IMPOSSIBLE is NOTHING!” Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity:
In December 2006, Brad Pitt convened a group of experts in New Orleans to brainstorm about building green affordable housing on a large scale to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Having spent time with community leaders and displaced residents determined to return home, Pitt realized that an opportunity existed to build houses that were not only stronger and healthier, but that had less impact on the environment.
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Activism Graduation PledgeThe Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility states, "I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work." Students define for themselves what it means to be socially and environmentally responsible. Students at over a hundred colleges and universities are using the pledge at some level. Graduates who voluntarily signed the pledge have turned down jobs with which they did not feel comfortable and have worked to make changes once on the job. For example, they have promoted recycling at their organization, removed racist language from a training manual, worked for gender parity in high school athletics, and helped to convince an employer to refuse a chemical weapons-related contract. If you are already part of our network, thank you for all the work you do. If you would like to get the Pledge going at your institution, please contact Steve Masters at: smasters@bentley.edu . One Pledge The ONE campaign's mission is to raise awareness of extreme poverty world-wide. Competing with over 700 schools, Susquehanna University's Student Advocacy Team has worked to recruit members, and was currently ranked 18th in the nation in December 2007. To join this fight against extreme poverty and improve Susquehanna's ranking, sign up at http://www.one.org/campus/index.html
Environmental Seventh Generation is the nation's leading brand of non-toxic and environmentally safe household products. With distribution in thousands of natural product and grocery stores nationwide, we've become the authority when it comes to products that protect your health and the planet. We've also won over 15 major awards that recognize our efforts to preserve the environment. It was a group of thoughtful, committed citizens that came together in 1971 to create Greenpeace. A handful of determined activists leased a small fishing vessel, called the Phyllis Cormack, and set sail from Vancouver for Amchitka Island in Alaska. Their mission was to protest U.S. nuclear testing off the coast of Alaska with a brave act of defiance: to place themselves in harm’s way. Despite being intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, these daring activists sailed into history by bringing worldwide attention to the dangers of nuclear testing. Greenpeace proves every day that ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. At TreeHugger we know that variety is the spice of life, so you can find all you need to go green in our up to the minute blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, weekly radio show and our user-generated blog, Hugg. We also extend our expertise to companies looking for a little green guidance. Past clients include Domino, Sundance Channel and House & Garden. Our mission is to promote awareness of environmental programs to all generations throughout the Susquehanna Valley. Our collaboration with other organizations in this endeavor strives to improve the quality of life for all who live, work, study, and recreate within our communities
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