Resources
Youth or Student Groups
The Campus Antiwar Network is the largest independent, democratic, grassroots network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq and military recruiters in schools and campuses all over the country.
Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses and to empower new progressive leaders nationwide, through an online magazine and student publications, public events, and grassroots issue campaigns.
Eonfire is a campus-based student network whose mission is to inspire, educate, and connect future social entrepreneurs and emerging business and citizen sector leaders.
Global Justice is an international organization that mobilizes a powerful movement of students and young people all over the world to promote solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems through student-led campaigns, leadership development, advocacy, and education.
Global Youth Action Network is a youth-led organization that connects many thousands of youth organizations in over 190 countries in order to facilitate intergenerational partnership in global decision-making, support collaboration between diverse youth organizations, and provide tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action.
Hillel provides opportunities for Jewish students at more than 500 colleges and universities to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through its global network of regional centers, campus Foundations and Hillel student organizations.
The League of Young Voters is a national organization that registers voters, writes and distributes voter guides, and lobbies elected officials about issues that affect young people.
National Society of Leadership and Success
The National Society of Leadership and Success, or Sigma Alpha Pi, allows schools, at a low cost, to secure a year’s worth of motivational speakers, success coaches, and alliance teams to hold students accountable for taking action, in order to help young adults become confident individuals and leaders.
National Student Partnerships is the nation’s only year-round, student-led volunteer service organization that operates a countrywide network of drop-in resource centers, staffed by student volunteers from area colleges and universities.
NetAid's innovative programs such as NetAid Global Citizen Corps, NetAid Global Action Corps, and NetAid World Schoolhouse educate young people about global poverty and international development, and provide opportunities for them to take concrete actions that make a difference in the lives of the world's poor.
Project 540 is a national high school civic engagement initiative whose purpose is to engage students in dialogue about issues they care about in order to enhance opportunities for community involvement.
Student Environmental Action Coalition
The Student Environmental Action Coalition is a grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future by sharing resources, building coalitions, and challenging the limited mainstream definition of environmental issues.
The Student Global AIDS Campaign is a national movement with more than eighty-five chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States, committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.
The Student Labor Action Project’s mission is to support, advise, and solidify the student-labor work that is energizing campuses and communities across the country by facilitating networking, training, material development and technical assistance for student activists.
Breakthrough Collaborative is a national nonprofit that increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students and inspires outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education.
TakingITGlobal is an international organization led by youth and empowered by technology, which connects youth around the world and inspires them to get involved in local and global issues, through a popular online community visited by hundreds of thousand of young people every month.
United States Student Association
The United States Student Association works to build grassroots power among students to win concrete victories that expand access to education at the federal, state and campus levels.
United Students Against Sweatshops
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop-free labor conditions and workers' rights.
United Students For Fair Trade
United Students for Fair Trade is a national network of student organizations advocating around Fair Trade products, policies, and principles.
