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Campus Compact

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents - representing some 6 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.

Career Development Program - CASE

The CASE program is designed to combine community service with academic studies and to meet the needs and interests of the students, area community agencies ("Community Partners"), and other program beneficiaries.

Center for Student Leadership, Ethics, & Public Service

CSLEPS provides leadership education and opportunities to address social justice issues. We envision leaders with wisdom, compassion and integrity who will promote a lasting commitment to the betterment of society.

Citizen Schools

Apprentices middle schoolers to adult volunteers nationwide

City Year

Volunteers in the year-long full-time program mentor, tutor and lead community building projects

Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies

Established in July 2000, the Cornwall Center is an integral part of the Rutgers-Newark Campus that brings together faculty, staff and students from Rutgers-Newark, as well as allied institutions of higher education.

Community University Engagement

The initiative we’re launching with this website is about democracy and higher education.

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.  

EOF P.R.I.D.E

Provides equal opportunity for high school students entering into Rutgers

ePals China

ePals China has just set up the whole online system for our program and is looking for foreign partners to work with to find out what has caused serious English education problem in China. Students in China have learned English for many years, yet they
can't speak it fluently. English-speaking students can use ePals software to communicate with Chinese students about their difficulities with the English language.

Harlem Children's Zone Project

Comprehensive community program that helps kids at every age, via parenting classes, job training, fighting obesity and lifting grades

Institute for Pre-College The Academic Foundations Center (AFC)

Provides educational opportunities, resources, and academic support programs primarily for underrepresented urban students to achieve personal success.

Knowledge is Power Program

Students in this network of 57 open-enrollment college-prep public schools go to school from 7:30 to 5 and have three hours of homework per night; 80% of grads have gone on to college

Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org makes democracy work better by investing in Millennial-driven solutions.
Mobilize.org seeks to take the individual actor past the deliberation stage, enabling members of the Millennial Generation to implement their solutions. Through the success of citizen-generated initiatives, Mobilize.org's end goal is to institutionalize citizen-generated solutions as a staple of American governance at all levels.

Rutgers Newark Law Urban and Community Law Clinics

The seven in-house, live-client clinics are distinguished by their breadth and diversity, comprehensiveness of experiences for students, and their involvement in cases and projects with far-reaching legal or social impact.

Learn and Serve America

Helps integrate community service with classroom learning for kids in kindergarten through college

National Youth Leadership Forum

Since 1992, the National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF) has empowered the nation's highest-achieving high school and university students with the confidence to make well-informed life choices that will prepare them for bright academic futures and successful professional careers.

New York Junior Tennis League

Uses tennis to teach underprivileged kids leadership and work ethic

Rochester Children's Zone

Provides a support network for low-income children in the upstate-NY city, and help them with educational and extracurricular activities

RU Pride

RU-PRIDE, provides a safe and nurturing place for LGBTQA people to make connections and form community.

Rutgers Against Hunger

Rutgers is working to make a difference in the lives of those suffering from hunger. From food drives to 4-H programs, from grocery-shopping advice to agricultural research, Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) aims to increase awareness of hunger and encourage community service to help those in need.

Rutgers Red Cross Corps

Rutgers aide based programs

Servenet.org

Educational materials for teaching public service, a database of public service organziations, and volunteer information

Share in Africa

SHARE is a Charity dedicated to Empowering Girls in Africa through Education

Student Ambassadors Outreach Program

The Campus Ambassador program at Rutgers Newark is a special initiative to recruit Newark high school students and to provide opportunities for outstanding students to be involved in civic and community activities.

Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations (SCUPSO)
Organized in 1979, SCUPSO supports university-based public service institutes in their efforts to assist state and local governments on a range of contemporary issues of importance. SCUPSO facilitates networking, information exchange, and collaboration among its 40 member institutions.

Teach for America

Top college grads teach in under-performing schools for two years

The New Teacher Project

Advises urban school districts on recruitment and evaluation of instructors, prepares new teachers and re-trains older career switchers for running a classroom

Volunteers' Week

Volunteers' Week is a national celebration of volunteers and volunteering which takes place from 1 – 7 June of each year. This year, Volunteers' Week is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

YES Schools

The mostly low-income 6th through 12th graders who attend the family of YES (Youth Engaged in Service) charter schools in Houston must complete monthly community service projects and be accepted to a four-year college to graduate

Youth Empowerment Zone

Provides educational and developmental help for at-risk kids in Columbia, Mo.