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Alliance for Public Service
The Alliance is a network that aims to engage a broad range of citizens, public interest groups, governments, and not-for-profit service providers in the active promotion of public service and personal responsibility at the local level.
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity has more than 17,000 male and female student members at 366 college campuses nationwide. Its mission is to prepare campus and community leaders through service. Its purpose is to develop leadership, to promote friendship and to provide service to humanity. Founded at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1925, it is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization headquartered in Independence, Missouri. More than 350,000 members have joined Alpha Phi Omega since its founding. The Fraternity has a National Volunteer Conference each year.
Ashoka
Funds and supports the leaders of growing, innovative non-profits
Building Bridges Coalition
The Building Bridges Coalition (BBC) is a consortium of leading organizations working collaboratively to promote the field of international volunteering. The BBC is a project of the Brookings Institution's Initiative on International Volunteering and Service and is comprised of international volunteer organizations, corporations, universities and colleges, government agencies, policy makers, and other stakeholders.
Center for Justice and Mental Health Research
The goal of the center is to partner research and practice across multiple disciplines to identify critical needs and points of intervention, and to test treatment effectiveness of service.
Change.org
The social networking site for activists allows members to build virtual foundations to bundle small donations from individuals into a large lump gift to charities, politicians or social projects
College of Nursing Programs
The College of Nursing is committed to its responsibility in establishing and maintaining a health partnership with the community. Special programs and initiatives focus on areas that address the health needs of the citizens of New Jersey.
Crime Prevention Service
We work with small businesses in Newark and the rest of northern New Jersey to find workable crime prevention measures that are practical and inexpensive, and geared toward individual businesses.
DonorsChoose
Allows prospective donors to search for and fund school projects, materials and activities proposed by individual teachers
Draper Richards Foundation
Grants start-up money and business mentoring to social entrepreneurs
Echoing Green
Provides seed and start-up grants and support to social entrepreneurs
Energ!ze Inc
This site offers a number of sources including stories, quotes, songs, poems, and references to other sites. They also have a volunteer bookstore.
Experience Corps
Specifically for 55-and-older, who tutor elementary school students struggling with reading
Greater Newark Safer Cities Initative
Protecting the citizens of the greater Newark area
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University is a university-wide center for the study of nonprofit organizations and civil society. The Hauser Center seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about the leadership of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations through the key goals of research, education, and practice.
Institute on Education Law and Policy
To promote education reform and improvement through research, policy analysis and public discussion
Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience is celebrating its second decade as an interdisciplinary academic program at Rutgers-Newark that serves the greater Newark metropolitan region by reaching into the community at large with lectures, symposia, film, performances, exhibitions, and other programs that enhance public understanding of urban life, the social construction of difference, race relations, local history, urban youth culture, and education.
Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University
The Mandel Center supports the mission of nonprofits through a blend of services and programs that nurture the development and prosperity of nonprofit organizations and their leadership.
New Profit
A venture-philanthropy organization that links social entrepreneurs, individual investors and management consultants to develop high-risk, high-impact projects
Omidyar Network
Funds for- and non-profit ventures that center on helping individuals help the world
Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.
Physicians for Peace
Sends doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists and medical supplies to countries with inadequate health care
Points of Light Institute
Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world.
Skoll Foundation
Awards three-year grants to social entrepreneurs to address problems from health and environmental problems, to economic equity and social justice, to world peace.
SmartVolunteer
Tries to reduce the non-profits' staffing costs by increasing the quality of volunteers, and by helping prospective do-gooders find projects that best fit their skill set
The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.
Voices for National Service
Lobbies and raises money in support of volunteer organizations
Voices for National Service
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA (YSA) improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles. We do this through: public mobilization campaigns such as Global Youth Service Day, Semester of Service, Service Vote and engaging public officials; funding and recognition through grants and awards geared toward youth, educators, service-learning coordinators, and program partners; and resources and training including the GYSD Planning Tool Kit, the Service-Learning Curriculum Guide, the National Service Briefing, the Youth Service Institute, webinars, and individual support.
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