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Organizations: National

 
Corporation for National & Community Service (Washington, DC)
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The CNCS provides strategic critical support to volunteer organizations that, in turn, deliver much-needed services to communities throughout the country. One of their many goals is to build character and create career and educational opportunities through the volunteer experience. To accomplish these goals, the Corporation provides grants and training and technical assistance to developing and expanding volunteer organizations. In addition, the Corporation explores, develops, and models effective approaches for using volunteers to meet the nat...
http://www.nationalservice.org/about/overview/index.asp
 
 
Organizations: International

 
Heifer Project International - Read to Feed
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Heifer International has several programs to help people including Read to Feed, in which you read books and raise money to buy animals for poor families.

The program "Builds self confidence, character and team spirit; Gives the good feeling of helping others in an significant way; Provides opportunity to build reading and problem-solving skills; Creates a setting for art, music and other learning experiences; Gives teachers a way to widen children's world."


http://www.readtofeed.org/
 
 
Websites: Informational

 
Family Cares
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This website by Family Cares is an online resource for service-based projects for the family. The site includes "Project Central", with more than 60 hands-on projects to help the homeless, elderly, disadvantaged and ill. It features a "project of the month". Membership is free.
http://www.familycares.org

 
Hungersite
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This website gives visitors a chance to click on a button and help feed hungry people. The Hunger Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need - the eradication of world hunger.
http://www.thehungersite.com

 
The Quest for Less
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This online curriculum from the Environmental Protection Agency provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. Each chapter includes one or more fact sheets providing background information on each topic. In addition, each chapter includes an index showing the grade ranges, subject areas and skills used for each activity to help teachers select the appropriate activities. Teachers can use this resource as one of many tools in the ...
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/quest/intro.htm
 
 
Websites: For Fun

 
Captain Planet Foundation
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This foundation is an offshoot of the cartoon series, Captain Planet, created by TBS, Inc in 1990. Funding for youth projects comes from a combination of grant awards, partnerships with local and national organizations, and an annual holiday fundraiser. The CPF gives children the opportunity to become active participants in discovering lasting solutions to issues that affect their entire community.
http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/

 
    

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