header

 
Sign In Join the Movement
Women, Youth & Family Links


 

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.


Moms Rising

MomsRising has a goal of bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force for 2008 and beyond.


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.