Resources
Altrusa International, Inc. is an international association of professional women and men who volunteer their energies and expertise for projects dedicated to community betterment, such as literacy and the fight against AIDS.
AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet the country’s critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.
Building Movement helps nonprofit organizations to work towards social change by integrating movement-building strategies into their work.
Catholic Network of Volunteer Services
Catholic Network of Volunteer Services is a national membership organization of Christian volunteer and mission programs that fosters and promotes full-time national and international service opportunities for people of all backgrounds, ages and skills.
The Center for Community Change helps low-income people build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.
City Year (Be Bold Partner)
An “action tank” for national service, City Year seeks to demonstrate, improve and promote the concept of national service as a means for building a stronger democracy.
Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action and is currently made up of over fifty national and international volunteer organizations that act as entrepreneurial civic action centers.
The Jewish Coalition for Service is a group of more than fifty affiliated programs which deliver thousands of hours of direct volunteer service addressing the pressing needs of communities and individuals, among both Jews and non-Jews.
National Peace Corps Association
The National Peace Corps Association is a nonprofit organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers, former staff and friends committed to fostering peace through service, education, and advocacy.
Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service works to make the government an employer of choice for talented, dedicated Americans through educational outreach, research, legislative advocacy, and hands-on partnerships with agencies on workforce management issues.
The Points of Light Foundation partners with the Volunteer Center National to encourage people from all walks of life—businesses, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, low-income communities, families, youth, and older adults—to volunteer.
Public Allies identifies talented young adults from diverse backgrounds and advances their leadership through a ten month program of full-time, paid apprenticeships in nonprofit organizations, weekly leadership trainings, and team service projects.
Through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying and litigation, the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization, works to protect the health of our environment and to preserve our remaining wild places.
Teach For America is a national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in ensuring educational equity and excellence for all children.
The Take Back America Conference, organized by the Campaign for America's Future, brings together thousands of progressive activists, thinkers and leaders, and acts as a catalyst for building the infrastructure to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard.
Youth Service America is a resource center that seeks to expand the impact of the youth service movement by partnering with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people between the ages of five and twenty-five to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
