Youth and Students in Service
(Includes volunteering by
young people - children, teens, and college age - plus service-learning
and family volunteering)
Books
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Volunteering by Children and Youth
Service-Learning (school-based)
Family Volunteering
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Volunteering by Children and Youth
Articles and book excerpts:
Free Electronic Books:
The Art of Crazy Paving: Volunteering for Enhanced Employability
from Student Volunteering UK (25 pg. PDF), explaining to young people how volunteering allows them to demonstrate and test their skills.
Can Do! Volunteering: A Guide to Including Young Disabled People as Volunteers
72-page guide from UK's leading services for people with disabilities, Leonard Chesire and Scope (2006). Can also download the guide in sections at http://www.can-do-volunteering.org.
College Students Helping America
Report from the Corporation for National and Community Service (2006), based on statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Family Volunteering: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on Families
The Center for Urban Policy and the Environment’s evaluation of the FAMILY MATTERS project of the Points of Light Foundation (2003).
J-Serve Leaders Handbook
J-Serve is a single day on which Jewish teens across the country perform acts of community service in conjunction with Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Day. The second part of this manual offers generic information about working with teens.
One Million Volunteers: The Story of Volunteer Youth Service
First published in 1968, Arthur Gillette's comprehensive history shows how service has affected volunteers and the peoples with whom they work, and draws guidelines for the future of international voluntary work.
Pathways to a New Future: Service as a Strategy for At-Risk Youth, by Innovations in Civic Participation (2005, 40-page PDF).
Websites with useful articles:
Alternative Spring Break
http://national.unitedway.org/asb/
United Way of America site about ways college students can help others during their school breaks, such as rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
CIRCLE
http://www.civicyouth.org/research/areas/comm_partic.htm
Research and information on community participation by youth from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). Also see index of free "fact sheets" at http://www.civicyouth.org/?page_id=154
Starting A Youth Advisory Board
http://www.kauffman.org/pdf/YAB_white_paper_brochure.pdf
Report by the Kauffman Foundation (free PDF): "Like Now: Changing the Future Today with Youth Advisory Boards."
Taking It Global
http://www.takingitglobal.org/
International organization, "led by youth, empowered by technology." TIG brings together young people in more than 200 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change.
What Young People Want from Volunteering
http://www.ivr.org.uk/youngresearch.htm
Summary of study by the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK.
Youth as E-Citizens Report
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ecitizens/index.htm
Online "tour" identifies and analyzes almost 400 websites, created for and in some cases by young people, that engage youth in civic activities. Read the full 155-page report by American University's Center for Social Media (2004) about how an online youth civic culture, largely unnoticed by the general public, has taken root on the Internet and is fostering Generation Y's participation in U.S. politics and community affairs:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ecitizens/youthreport.pdf.
Youth Helping America Series
http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/role_impact/performance_research
.asp#YHA
In collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau and Independent Sector, the Corporation for National and Community Service in early 2005 conducted the Youth Volunteering and Civic Engagement Survey, the first major national study of volunteering by teenagers in more than a decade. This site provides several free reports, including a 2007 update.
Youth in Philanthropy
http://youth.foundationcenter.org/
Youth-focused site from The Foundation Center, including information on famous and celebrity philanthropists.
YouthNet UK
http://www.youthnet.org.uk/
"Virtual charity" serving young people in the UK, including encouraging them to volunteer. As of 2006 have a Youthnet Blog which includes postings about volunteering.
Youth Noise
http://www.youthnoise.com/
Save the Children's site directed at teenagers to encourage community involvement and "how to be part of the solution."
Youth on Board
http://www.youthonboard.org/
Prepares youth to be leaders and decision makers in their communities and strengthens relationships between youth and adults. Particularly advocates involving young people on nonprofit boards of directors.
Youth Worker: The Contemporary Journal for Youth Ministry
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/
Articles for and by youth in faith-based settings, with emphasis on topics related to volunteering, organizational relationships, and leadership.
Service-Learning
Articles and book excerpts:
Free electronic
books:
Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention by Civic Enterprises (2008, 36 pg. PDF).
Internship-in-a-Box, a detailed manual that tells organizations how to design an internship program. Provided by CareerPhilly, a Philadelphia-based program connecting students and employers: http://www.careerphilly.com/
Mentors Strengthen Student Community Service (PDF)
This monograph was published by SerVermont, a nonprofit corporation that encourages all students to do voluntary community service integrated with academic coursework.
Semester of Service Strategy Guide Youuth Serivce America, giving information on how to take a community service lesson plan or volunteer effort and create a semester-long service-learning curriculum. (2008, 32-page PDF)
Summer of Service: A New American Rite of Passage? by Innovations in Civic Participation (75 pgs.)
V2 Volunteerism Action Guide:
Multiplying the Power of Service, produced the the US Peace Corps (2008) to help members develop service-learning projects in developing countries (65 pgs.).
Websites with useful
articles:
The Big Dummy's
Guide to Service-Learning
http://www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/bigdummy.html
"27 Simple Answers
to Good Questions on: Faculty, Programmatic, Student, Administrative,
& Non-Profit Issues."
Campaign Against
Servitude
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6134
For another point of view
about service-learning, check out this site of the Ayn Rand Institute.
Cesar E. Chavez
Service-Learning Resource Guides
http://www.chavezfoundation.org/_cms.php?b_code=002001000000000
Set of step-by-step project
manuals for service activities by students, K-12.
Learning to Give Philanthropy Curriculum
http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/index_page.asp
A site dedicated to teaching the importance of voluntary action for the common good in a democratic society. Offers free curriculum material for grades K to 12, with full course outlines, teachers guides, standards and benchmarks. Also see the materials in their "Resource Room" at http://www.learningtogive.org/materials/
National Youth
Leadership Council
http://www.nylc.org/
Long-time advocate for
service-learning, the NYLC site provides both basic and advanced
information on what service-learning is and best practices for
doing it right. See the 2004 "Growing
to Greatness" evaluation studies.
SERVEnet
http://www.servenet.org
Web site of Youth Service
America, provides continuously updated news about National Service
and service-learning, several free e-newsletters, tip sheets for
youth volunteers. See the "Project Plan It!" area
of the site (http://www.YSA.org/PLANIT
) for online tools to plan a youth service project.
Service-Learning
Diversity/Equity Project http://www.nylc.org/inaction_init.cfm?oid=3694
The National Youth Leadership
Council's efforts at examining diversity in service-learning programs,
with several excellent downloadable reports and articles.
Service Learning
in the Northwest
http://www.nwrel.org/ruraled/learnserve/resrc.html
Several free guides
on designing service-learning projects, their essentials elements,
benchmarks, and sample programs.
Summer of Service Resource Center
http://www.icicp.org/ht/d/sp/i/3129/pid/3129
Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) site with information and technical assistance in the design and evaluation of high quality "Summer of Service" programs, creating positive alternatives for young teens during summer vacation.
Family Volunteering
Articles and Book Excerpts:
From Tragedy to Triumph: How can philanthropy and volunteering help my child cope with tragic world events? from Raising Charitable Children
Free Electronic Books:
Family Volunteering: A Discussion Paper, Volunteer Canada describes how and why families engage in service, examines strategies and barriers to implement family projects, and includes an extensive bibliography. Free, 22-page PDF.
Family Volunteering: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on Families by the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. An preliminary study on the benefits of volunteering to the families who engage in it (2003, 32 page PDF).
Family Volunteering: The Final Report by Volunteer Canada. This study surveyed both volunteer managers and individual volunteers who engage in family volunteering and reports on the results. (44 page PDF).
Family Volunteering: The Ties That Bind.
An introduction to preparing your agency for family volunteers, by Kristen Porritt for Canadian Heritage.
Websites with useful articles:
Family Matters
http://www.pointsoflight.org/networks/youthfamily/primers/
primer_main.cfm
Program of the Points of Light Foundation that encourages and supports family volunteering. Web site is a "Family Volunteer Primer" with a range of material on the how-to's of making family volunteering successful.
Family Volunteering Resources on Idealist.org
http://www.idealist.org/kt/familyvolunteer.html
This area of the idealist.org website includes information on the benefits of family volunteering and a list of articles on the topic. Contains information useful to families who want to volunteer and volunteer coordinators who work with family volunteers.
The Volunteer Family
http://www.thevolunteerfamily.org/Need/Default.aspx
This site includes ideas to help your organization become family-volunteer friendly, tips on supervising youth and family volunteers, information on legal issues and liability, and a place to post family volunteering opportunities.
Zoom into Action!
http://pbskids.org/zoom/action/
Site accompanying the PBS children's television series Zoom. Its "Action" section has many examples of volunteering by kids and families, plus how-to hints for adults and educators. Also provides a free guide to family volunteering to download at:
http://pbskids.org/zoom/grownups/action/pdfs/volunteer_guide.pdf
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