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Corporation for National and Community Service

Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, supports and encourages service learning throughout the United States and enables over one million students to make meaningful contributions to their communities while building their civic and academic skills. We provide direct and indirect grant support to K–12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects, and provide training and technical assistance. We also manage the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll(www.cns.gov).

Girl Scouts of the USA

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place (www.girlscouts.org).

iEARN USA

iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies (us.iearn.org).

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress makes its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations (www.loc.gov/about).

Millennium Challenge Corporation

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a United States government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world, is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people that promote economic growth and elimination of extreme poverty (www.mcc.gov).

National Geographic Society

The mission of National Geographic's Education Foundation is to motivate and enable each new generation to become geographically literate. The Education Foundation's programs include mywonderfulworld.org, a National Geographic-led campaign—backed by a coalition of major national partners—to expand geographic learning in school, at home, and in the community.

National Peace Corps Association

The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) connects, informs and engages the Peace Corps community and others in fostering peace by working together in service, education, and advocacy. Through its Global TeachNet program—including the award-winning quarterly newsletter and magazine, weekly resource listserv, and website—NPCA helps K-12 educators infuse a global perspective in U.S. classrooms(www.rpcv.org).

NetAid

NetAid (www.netaid.org), an initiative of Mercy Corps (www.mercycorps.org), educates, inspires, and empowers young people to fight global poverty throughout their lives. Using innovative technology, peer-to-peer education, and leadership training, we are dramatically altering the way young Americans view the world, and their role within it.

North American Association for Environmental Education

The North American Association for Environmental Education promotes excellence in environmental education and serves environmental educators for the purpose of achieving environmental literacy. The effort aims for present and future generations to benefit from a safe and healthy environment and a better quality of life (www.naaee.org).

Peace Corps Partnership Program

The Peace Corps Partnership Program provides funding for community-initiated projects being overseen by our Volunteers serving around the world. Since its inception in 1964, the Partnership Program has assisted thousands of Peace Corps Volunteers, in every Peace Corps country, in bolstering the health and well-being of their host communities. The program accepts funding to support projects in water and sanitation, youth and women's development, education, general health, small business development, HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, agriculture, and the environment.

Peace Corps Recruiting

Since the inception of the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 187,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 139 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. Today's Peace Corps is as vital as ever, working in emerging and essential areas such as information technology and business development, and committing more than a thousand new Volunteers as a part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities, and they bring back a wealth of knowledge and experience they share for their lifetimes with other Americans.

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree uses the forest as a window on the world to increase students' understanding of our environment; stimulate students' critical and creative thinking; develop students' ability to make informed decisions on environmental issues; and instill in students the commitment to take responsible action on behalf of the environment (www.plt.org).

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Inspire curiosity, discovery, and learning about nature and culture through outstanding research, collections, exhibitions, and education (www.mnh.si.edu).

Save the Children

Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. It is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 28 national Save the Children organizations working in more than 110 countries to ensure the well-being of children (www.savethechildren.org).

United States Department of Education—International Education Programs Service

The International Education and Foreign Language Studies domestic programs are designed to strengthen the capability and performance of American education in foreign languages and in area and international studies. Overseas programs are intended to improve secondary and post secondary teaching and research concerning other cultures and languages, training of specialists, and the American public's general understanding of the peoples of other countries.

United States Fund for UNICEF

The United States Fund for UNICEF works for the survival, protection, and development of children worldwide through education, advocacy, and fundraising. UNICEF was founded in 1947 for educational and charitable purposes to increase public awareness in the United States about the challenges facing the world’s children and to raise funds for UNICEF-assisted projects (www.unicefusa.org).

World Food Programme

WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system. The core policies and strategies that govern WFP activities are to provide food aid to save lives in refugee and other emergency situations; to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives; and to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labor-intensive works programs (www.wfp.org).

 

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