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."
iMentor's mission is to improve the lives of young people from underserved communities in New York City through innovative, technology-based approaches to youth mentoring and education. They work with schools, after-school programs, community technology centers, and other youth development agencies that serve young people from low-income neighborhoods.
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 nation's human needs and conducts and disseminates research that helps develop and cultivate knowledge that will enhance the overall effectiveness of national and community service programs.
For more than a decade, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership has been leading the effort to connect America's young people with caring adult mentors. MENTOR was created in 1990 by financiers and philanthropists Geoff Boisi and Ray Chambers.
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.
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.
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.
This online curriculum from the EPA 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 development of their lesson plans, incorporating a range of its suggested activities and subjects into different educational units throughout the school year. Activities and concepts can be incorporated into existing curricula, or teachers can create special week-long units on the environment and solid waste or use the activities to commemorate Earth Day.