The following links provide resources related to Volunteer Services. We have grouped the web sites into the following categories:

• College and University Students
• Development
• General Volunteering
• Virtual Volunteering
• Volunteer Agencies

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College and University Students

ASU in the Community

http://www.asu.edu/community

ASU in the Community is a university-wide resource that catalogs ASU's community outreach activities. The website presents basic information about the wide variety of ASU programs that touch the lives of Arizona's citizens almost every day.

Break Away

http://www.alternativebreaks.org/

Break Away's mission is to train, assist, and connect campuses and communities in promoting quality alternative break programs that inspire lifelong active citizenship.

Do Something

http://www.dosomething.org

A national nonprofit organization that encourages young people to help build their communities. Organizer of The Kindness & Justice Challenge, a nationwide two-week character education and community service effort in January, and the organizer of Webstock96.

Global Service Corps

http://www.globalservice.org

Provides short-term, long-term and college internship programs in Costa Rica, Thailand, or Kenya. These volunteer programs target three primary project areas: Environment, Health and Education.

University-Community Partnership for Social Action Research Network (UCP-SARnet)

http://ucpsarnet.asu.edu

ASU Department of Psychology, with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and from the Informational Technology Office, has been developing the University-Community Partnership for Social Action Research Network (UCP-SARnet) for two years and will be launching the network on April 18, 2008. The launch event will be hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovations (Waterloo, Canada) and organized by the Centre for Community Based Research (Kitchener, Canada). The project is a collaboration of the ASU Department of Psychology and university faculty and students from Canada, England, Italy and Poland. Please visit the UCP-SARnet site, http://ucpsarnet.asu.edu, to learn details about its mission, partners, advisory board and offered options for networking.

Development

Association of Fundraising Professionals

http://www.afpnet.org/resource_center

Need fresh ideas to raise money for your local effort? The Association of Fundraising Professionals, an America's Promise National Partner, offers helpful information in its Resource Center, located on its Web site. The online resource allows you to research articles on fund-raising topics, join in on audio-conferences featuring fund-raising experts and get answers to frequently asked questions.

General Volunteering

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

http://www.ashoka.org/involved/volunteer.cfm

Ashoka's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated, and to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world.

1-800-Volunteer

http://www.1-800-volunteer.org

1-800-Volunteer.org connects you to volunteer opportunities in your community, helps you track your volunteer service, and sends you automatic e-mail notifications - enabling you to respond when you're needed most.

Action Without Borders

http://www.idealist.org

* Over 61,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location, or mission. If your organization is not yet listed here, you can add it now (it's free). * Thousands of volunteer opportunities in your community and around the world, and a list of organizations that can help you volunteer abroad. * The best Nonprofit Career Center on the web, with hundreds of job and internship listings. * Resources to plan a successful community action

Corporation for National Service

http://www.cns.gov

Phone: 1-202-606-5000

Family Travel Network

http://www.familytravelnetwork.com/articles/dogood_about.asp

Planning to travel and looking for something different for your next family getaway or teen's spring break? Family travel experiences can be used as a time to experience different cultures and help others in need.

Family Volunteering Abroad

http://www.serveyourworld.com/articles/302/1/family-volunteering-abroad

Turn your family vacation in a family volunteer vacation abroad. Volunteering abroad as a family not only helps build stronger families, it helps build a better world. Flex your family's altruistic muscle and volunteer abroad as a family.

Global Crossroads

http://www.globalcrossroad.com/

Global Crossroad offers many exciting volunteer abroad and internship abroad experiences, mini-escapes and summer escapes, paid teaching programs, rural community insights and cultural immersion programs to international volunteers in 20 marvelous countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with more countries becoming available soon.

Idealist, a project of Action Without Borders

http://www.idealist.org/kt/familyvolunteer.html

If you would like to find a new, fun way to spend time with your family, consider family volunteering. Imagine you and your family planting trees with the Nature Conservatory or collecting data on dolphins with the Earthwatch Institute.

Points of Light Foundation and the Volunteer Center National Network

http://www.pointsoflight.org

Phone: 1-800-VOLUNTEER
E-mail: familymatters@pointsoflight.org

The Volunteer Family

http://www.thevolunteerfamily.org/

The Volunteer Family makes volunteering together easy. We are continuously adding to our list of organizations willing to accept you and other members of your family. We define family very loosely - it is any group of two or more people, such as parents, children, siblings, foster parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.

Top 10 Tips for Setting Up a Family Volunteer Program

http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/tp/famvol.htm

Families are busier than ever. That is why many are looking for activities they can do together. Nonprofits have a unique opportunity to reach out to families and offer them quality time together as well as the good feelings that come from helping others.

YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING USA

http://www.yfu-usa.org/index.html

Youth For Understanding (YFU) is one of the world's oldest, largest, and most respected international exchange organizations. YFU prepares young people for their responsibilities and opportunities in a changing, interdependent world. Join more than 2000 American families and welcome a young person from Brazil, Japan, Germany, or one of over 60 countries into your home. To learn more about how you can become involved with YFU, visit the website.

Volunteer Agencies

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects

http://www.cadip.org/

CADIP organizes mainly short-term volunteer service projects (international work camps) here and overseas and we will be happy if more and more young people from North America are interested to join them phone: 1-604-628-7400 fax: 1-604-628-7401 e-mail: cadip@cadip.org

City of Glendale Community Volunteer Project

http://www.ci.glendale.az.us

Civic Ventures

http://www.civicventures.org/index.cfm

Civic Ventures is a think tank and an incubator, generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. Founded in the late 1990s by social entrepreneurs John Gardner and Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures is reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining the second half of life as a source of social and individual renewal.

Get Involved

http://www.getinvolved.gov

Check out our Get Involved section to find helpful tips on finding the opportunity that best suits your interest, conducting searches to find community organizations in need of your specific skills, and interviewing organizations with which you are volunteering.

Get Involved!

http://www.getinvolved.gov/

The Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, is the federal agency charged by Congress with engaging more Americans in volunteer service. We are happy that you have selected us to help you learn more about the many age 55-plus service opportunities in your community.

Make a Difference

http://www.makeadifference.org

One World Youth Project

http://www.oneworldyouthproject.org/

One World Youth Project is a unique sister-school program for middle and high school students, linking groups in the US/Canada with groups from around the world together in learning partnerships for the purpose of community service toward the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Practical Tips for Planning Group-Oriented Volunteer Projects

http://www.charitychannel.com/publish/templates/?a=180&z=24

A no nonsense approach to help you make the most of those short-term, group projects.

The Community Service Program at ASU

http://www.asu.edu/mu/community/

The Volunteer Center of Pinal County

http://www.volunteercenterpinal.org

Through the financial genorosity of sponsors and supporters, we are achieving our mission to connect volunteers to community needs, projects and partner organizations; coordinate with individuals and business teams to get jobs done; identify and address community needs; continue to build the capacity for effective volunteerism through training while promoting and celebrating our most important asset- Volunteers!

USAJOBS

http://www.usajobs.gov/ei20.asp

Have you ever applied for a job and been told that they are looking for people with "experience"? Have you ever wondered what it is really like to work in a particular career field? Have you ever been curious about how the Federal Government works? If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, Volunteer Service may be right for you.

Volunteer Match

http://www.volunteermatch.org

Youth Service America

http://www.ysa.org

Youth Venture

http://www.genv.net/

Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people to design and launch their own lasting social ventures, enabling them to have this transformative experience of leading positive social change. Youth Venture is operating on five continents, and we continue to expand. As we invest in Venturers around the world, we are connecting them into a powerful global network.