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Your World - Your Community - Get Involved! |
World and Community - they're yours, mine, and ours. We're all in this
boat together! Below are links to organizations that help make our world and communities
much better! Many have chapters or offices here in our area! Get out and be a part of
your community today!
4-H (TM)
The official website of 4-H. You can learn how volunteering, working with others, and having a good time is what the club is all about.
Can Do
Dedicated to helping kids develop a can-do attitude to life.
CARE
Relief agency that helps families in poverty and emergency situations.
Children's International Summer Villages
This is a volunteer group who promote peace, education and cross cultural friendship. Check out their branches in different countries.
Do Something
Share your ideas on how to build better communities and make a difference.
Earthforce
Encourages kids to solve local environmental problems.
Global Fund for Children
Organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of children and youth through children's books and arts education.
Horizon Solutions Site for Kids
Solutions to problems in health, environment, development, and population.
InterAction
Organizations who work to promote human dignity and development in countries around the world.
International Book Project
Organization that sends books to those in need in developing countries.
Kids Next Door
Kids can learn what it's like to be a good citizen.
Learning Adventures in Citizenship
Cool things you can do to make your town a better place.
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
Learn how this group grants wishes to thousands of children.
National Beta Club
Promotes character, service, and leadership among school students.
National Federation of the Blind
For anyone who is curious about blindness. Includes questions from kids, guide dogs, braille, and more.
Operation Smile
Provides reconstructive surgery and related health care to indigent children and adults world wide.
Project America
Inspires and teaches people to take positive steps in their communities.
United Way Today
Volunteers of America
Organization that helps the elderly, children and youth, families, and the homeless.
Walk in My Shoes
This website will get you in touch with your grandparents' generation, and teach you what it's like to walk in their shoes.
What Kids Can Do
How kids are making a difference! Check out what they've been doing to improve their communities and find resources to help you get involved too.
YMCA of the USA
Child Net Volunteers
If you're interested in volunteering to help children, you can find useful advice here.
Twenty Ways For Teens To Help Other People By Volunteering
The title says it all.
Youth Karaoke
This is a program that gets kids off of the streets by providing a fun environment. It gives 'Street Kids' a place to meet.
Performing Hearts
Kids helping kids with serious illnesses through a performing arts program.
TeenPact Online
Christian group who teaches kids to become leaders.
Youth Power
How to form a Youth Power Club (formerly the Just Say No To Drugs Campaign).
Youth Online Club
Kids can come together to learn, have fun, make friends, and lend helping hands.
National Wildlife Federation For Kids
Covers the environment, animals, and wildlife.
Kids F.A.C.E.
Environmental organization for children, including history, mission, and how to start a chapter.
Free The Planet
Environmental network for students.
Center For Environmental Citizenship
Where young leaders learn to protect the environment.
Youth For Environmental Sanity
Program that encourages youth of all ages to take part in environmental projects.
International Marine Mammal Project
Protects creatures of the seas.
Change The World
Website for anyone concerned with helping the environment. Tackles issues such as urban sprawl and mistreatment of animals.
Earth 911
Information on recycling, with a ton of public service information.
Environmental Protection Agency
Their message is "Think Globally, Act Locally."
Childrens Defense Fund
Organization that helps children face problems of poverty, abuse, and negligence.
Camp Fire Boys And Girls
Girls Incorporated
Organization that encourages girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
Boy Scouts of America
Girl Scouts
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