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Non-Profit & Volunteer Links
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- 4Volunteer.com, 4 Anything Network
A list of links to volunteer sites and charitable organizations.
- VISTA
- Volunteers In Service To America
- Global
Volunteer Network Places volunteers in community projects in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, New
Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand, and Uganda. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational, environmental and community aid programs.
- Global Volunteers
International Volunteer Programs for Service Learning Worldwide
- Wilderness
Volunteers Giving Something Back
- African Conservation Experience
Offers an educational work experience from four to twelve weeks on a
conservation or research project at one of the Game and Nature Reserves
in Southern Africa.
- America's Second Harvest National
network of over 200 food banks and food rescue programs that distribute
donated food.
- American Friends Service Committee
Information on Quaker and non-Quaker volunteer opportunities.
- Americorps Allows people of all ages
and backgrounds to earn an education reward in exchange for one year
of service.
- Amizade Volunteer Programs A nonprofit
organization with the mission to help save the rain forest and its communities.
- Break Away Information on break-oriented
programs which immerse high school and university students in different
cultures and heighten social awareness.
- Central European Teaching Program,
Beloit College A nonprofit, volunteer teaching organization to place
English teachers in Central and Eastern Europe.
- City Year A volunteer program that
targets inner-city schools.
- Cool 2 Serve An organization
advocating student community service.
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
(CARE) An international relief and development organization.
- Cross-Cultural
Solutions A nonprofit organization sending volunteers abroad to
provide humanitarian assistance.
- Disaster Relief A cooperative
program between the American Red Cross, CNN interactive and IBM to help
the disaster community.
- Earthwatch Institute An international
nonprofit, environmental organization promoting conservation research
and education.
- Food for the Poor A Christian,
international, aid organization that helps improve the health, economic,
social and spiritual conditions of impoverished people in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
- Global Citizens Network A nonprofit
organization for community assistance with volunteer opportunities in
the United States and abroad.
- Global Volunteers An international
organization that sends volunteers abroad to work on human and economic
development projects.
- Habitat for Humanity International A
nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization providing
families and communities with decent, affordable housing.
- Helping.org An online resource for locating
charities in need of donations or locating volunteer opportunities by
zipcode.
- Idealist.org: Action Without Borders
Lists nonprofit and volunteering opportunities on the web.
- Impact Online A nonprofit organization
helping people become involved in their community.
- India Literacy Project U.S. based,
nonprofit, volunteer organization dedicated to spreading the cause of
literacy in India.
- InterAction Information
The American Council for Voluntary International Action is comprised
of over 150 nonprofit international development, disaster relief and
refugee assistance organizations.
- International Aid A nonprofit, global
relief, development, and training agency that engages the local church
in its programs of aid.
- International Committee of the Red Cross
Mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal
violence.
- International
Volunteer Projects, Council Exchanges A program that offers Americans
two to four week service projects overseas.
- Landmark Volunteers A nonprofit, summer,
community service organization for high school students to spend two
weeks working at one of several historical, cultural, environmental
or social service institutions.
- Laubach Literacy A volunteer-based literacy
organization operating in the United States and in thirty-six countries
abroad assisting adults to learn reading, writing, math, and problem
solving.
- Literacy Volunteers of America
A national network of over 350 locally based providers promoting literacy
for adults and their families. The organization trains community volunteers
to tutor adults.
- National PTA A volunteer association promoting
the welfare of children and youth in the schools and the community.
- Partners of the Americas A
network of volunteers from Latin America, the Caribbean and the United
States forming a "partnership" between the regions to improve the lives
of people.
- Peace Corps This agency trains
volunteers to serve in a host country for two years with the mission
to promote understanding between cultures.
- Points of Light Foundation A non-partisan,
nonprofit organization devoted to promoting volunteerism.
- Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR)
An international organization providing competent and effective relief
personnel to humanitarian aid agencies world-wide.
- Serve Net, Youth Service America
A site on service and volunteering in America and abroad.
- Service Civil International A
voluntary service organization promoting peace, social justice, international
understanding and solidarity, sustainable development, and respect for
the environment.
- Student Conservation Association
A provider of national and community conservation service opportunities,
outdoor education, and career training for youth.
- Teach for America (TFA)
A national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two
years to teach in under resourced urban or rural public schools.
- Tech Corps A nonprofit organization
that recruits, places, and supports volunteers from the technology community
to assist schools with new technologies.
- United Nations Volunteers Created
by the General Assembly of the United Nations, this program serves as
an operational partner in development cooperation at the request of
UN member states. Volunteers work in developing countries.
- Voluntary Service Overseas An international
charity organization recruiting volunteers of all nationalities from
the European Union, United States and Canada for a duration of two years.
- Volunteer
Bulletin Board and Donation Center, from Charity Village.com
- Volunteer Canada
A national agency devoted to volunteering in Canada and offering information
and resources.
- volunteer international.org
An alliance of nonprofit organizations in the Americas involved in international
volunteer exchanges.
- Volunteer Services,
American Red Cross
- VolunteerMatch An online service
for posting and finding a volunteer opportunity.
- Volunteers of America A national,
nonprofit, spiritually-based organization providing local human service
programs and the opportunity for individual and community involvement.
- World of Opportunity
(Council Exchanges) A program for the college student or recent graduate
to experience a short term work opportunity to live and work in a foreign
country.
- World
S.H.A.R.E. (Self-Help and Resource Exchange) A nonprofit, social
business serving a multi-national network of organizations whose purpose
is to engage people in self-help activities that will improve their
lives and the lives of others.
- World Teach A nonprofit organization
providing individuals with the opportunity to live and work as volunteer
teachers in developing countries.
- World Vision
A nonprofit, Christian, humanitarian organization assisting families
and their children.
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