Big
Brothers/Big Sisters provides a mentor for every
child who needs or wants one.
Camp
Fire USA's outcome-based programs include
youth leadership, self-reliance, after school
groups, camping and environmental education and
child care.
Celebration
of Strength
Injecting a fresh perspective into the everyday issues that
impact women, this site invites women to share their stories
of strength.
Challenge
Day provides youth and their communities with experiential
workshops and programs that demonstrate the possibility
of love and connection through the celebration of diversity,
truth and full expression.
Childreach is
the U.S. member of Plan, a global, non-profit, child-centered
development organization helping needy children and their
families in developing countries since 1937. Our grassroots,
community-based programs in five interrelated Domains --
Growing Up Healthy, Learning, Livelihood, Habitat and Building
Relationships -- are without religious, political or governmental
affiliation.
Coalition
for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) members work to build
safe communities one child at a time.
Common
Sense about Kids and Guns is a non-profit group
of owners and non-owners of guns committed to working
together to protect America's children from gun deaths
and injuries.
Co/Motion The
mission of Co/Motion is to empower a new generation of advocates
for social change and to nurture a lifelong commitment to
civic participation and social justice activism.
The
Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent
violence within the home, and in the community, to
help those whose lives are devastated by violence because
everyone has the right to live free of violence.
Girls
Inc. is a national nonprofit youth organization
dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart,
and bold.
The
International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working
in nearly 60 countries and territories to improve the
conditions and prospects for young people where they
live, learn, work, and play. Established in 1990 to
bring worldwide resources to young people in need,
IYF works with hundreds of companies, foundations,
and civil society organizations to strengthen and "scale
up" existing programs that are making a positive
and lasting difference in young lives.
Juvenile
Justice Coalition is a non-profit organization
whose mission is to promote effective programs, equitable
treatment of youth, and public policy that will result
in the reduction of juvenile delinquency.
KIDSNET helps
children, families and educators intelligently access the
educational opportunities available from television, radio
and multimedia sources.
Legal
Momentum advances the rights of women and girls
by using the power of the law and creating innovative
public policy.
National
Center for Family Literacy creates educational
and economic opportunity for the most at-risk children
and parents.
National
Youth Network educates parents of troubled teens
on child behavior including attention deficit disorder,
ADD, ADHD, drug abuse, teen depression, behavior modification
or intervention programs such as wilderness programs,
boarding schools, residential treatment, weight loss
camps, and other adolescent programs.
Parent
Advodates is an information nexus for resources
on publicly funded education programs, policies, and
schools in the U.S., with the personal stories of whistleblowers
working at the local level to challenge those in power
who are not helping the children they are paid to serve.
Save
the Children Foundation is a leading international
relief and development organization.
Teens Against Gang Violence empowers youth leaders by providing them with
culturally appropriate knowledge, skills, tools and relationships so they can
educate others about non-violence through peace and justice.
Women's Edge Coalition, with more than 40 organizational members and over
15,000 individual members nationwide, does focused, practical advocacy to make
sure that U.S. international trade and assistance programs create economic opportunities
and self-sufficiency for women and their families worldwide.
Women's
Health & Rights section from the Center for American
Progress
Young Women's Work Project creatively instigates new economic, educational,
spiritual and leadership opportunities by and for poor and working class young
women to end poverty.
Youth Activism Project is a private non-partisan organization to encourage
young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply
about.
Youth
Alive works to prevent youth violence and generate
youth leadership in California communities.
Youth
as Resources connects youth positively to their communities
and improves community life nationally and internationally
through the spread of youth-led service initiatives.
Youth
Law Center is a full-service nonprofit law office
for children, combining the skills of specially trained
and experienced attorneys and caseworkers to help victimized
and troubled children.
YouthNOISE is
a group of young people--from all 50 states, the District
of Columbia and more than 176 countries--together with
a small group of adults working to provide information
from more than 300 nonprofit partners to date that will
spark youth action and voice.
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