Launched in 2001, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is one of five ventures of DC Central Kitchen. CKP empowers students to create sustainable solutions to food insecurity, food waste, and poverty in their communities. On over 60 university and high school campuses across the country, student leaders transform unused, high-nutrient food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants, and farmers’ markets into meals that are delivered to local agencies serving those in need, all while building meaningful leadership skills. Our student leaders go “Beyond the Meal” by implementing community building initiatives that advance our mission of breaking systemic barriers that cause food insecurity, poverty, and food waste.

• Volunteer Opportunities

The Congressional Hunger Center works to make issues of domestic and international hunger a priority to policymakers in the U.S. government, and to raise a new generation of leaders to fight against hunger and poverty.

Through the Zero Hunger Initiative, Bonners will be able to deepen their learning around issues of food security, hunger and poverty and be exposed to ways they can become more effective advocates for promoting policies that address food security and reduce hunger in their campus communities.

The Congressional Hunger Center operates a summer internship program in Washington, DC and a post-graduate fellowship programs, the Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program, that trains, inspires, and sustains leaders. Fellows gain field experience fighting hunger and poverty through placements in community based organizations across the country, and policy experience through placements in Washington, D.C. The program bridges community-based efforts and national public policy, and fellows develop as effective leaders in the movement to end hunger and poverty.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

• Internship Opportunities

Student Basic Needs Coalition (SBNC) is a national non-profit organization with a primary mission to combat the student basic needs crisis by facilitating solutions for food, housing, and financial insecurities among college students. Our approach is three-pronged, focusing on SNAP Enrollment, Campus Education, and Advocacy, all aimed at alleviating the immediate needs of students while working towards long-term systemic changes.

Food Recovery Network (FRN) unites 8,000+ college students, food suppliers, farmers, and local businesses across the U.S. in the fight against climate change and hunger by recovering surplus food from across the supply chain and donating it to local nonprofit organizations that feed people experiencing hunger.

Appalachia Service Project is a Christian ministry, open to all people, that inspires hope and service through volunteer home repair and replacement in Central Appalachia. ASP offers transformational volunteer opportunities for adults and youth throughout the year. More than 15,000 volunteers from around the country served with ASP in rural Central Appalachia last year, repairing homes for low-income families.

• Service Trips

• Volunteer Opportunities

Aspire High Youth Development Inc. is an Educational Non-Profit dedicated to serving Low-income and First-generation students in school districts across New Jersey. The Aspire High Youth Development Program aims to facilitate opportunities for young men and women to not only realize their leadership potential, but to develop and maximize that potential in a continuing effort to bring them to the forefront of organizational, corporate, and political leadership. Aspire High Youth Development programs include the College Mentorship Program, Parent Engagement/Empowerment Program, Revolutionary Arts Program, After-School Programs, STEM Summer Program, and Remote Tutoring Services.

• Volunteer opportunities

• Internships

• Mentorships

Black in Appalachia: Research, Education & Support is a non-profit that works in collaboration with public media, residents, university departments, libraries, archives and community organizations to highlight the history and contributions of African-Americans in the development of the Mountain South and its culture.. Black in Appalachia is a community service for Appalachian residents and families with roots in the region.

Black in Appalachia works with the communities at various levels, based on the articulated needs. Opportunities for Bonner engagement include: Oral History recording and transcription, Materials scanning and cataloguing, Repository Research, GIS Mapping, Multi-media production (Audio and Visual), Graphic Design, Web Design, Narrative Writing as well as opportunities to work in support of Black stories your home community, if your home is in the Appalachian region.

CoGenerate brings older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create the future. They are one of the nation’s leading social-impact organizations dedicated to making the most of our increasingly multigenerational society. CoGenerate works as a catalyst to shift the cultural narrative and tell a new story about cogenerational action; to support innovators bringing generations together for mutual benefit and social impact; and to build a community of leaders, organizations and funders to scale this work and sustain it.

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IM) brings people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration, and service, as a demonstration of our shared beliefs. IM manifests the strength of shared beliefs through three areas of service to the greater Houston community: Meals on Wheels, Refugee Services, and Interfaith Relations. Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IM) welcomes individuals as well as corporate, school, faith-based or other volunteer groups to help fulfill our mission.

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The mission of Serve901 is to partner college student volunteers with Memphis service organizations to facilitate interpersonal development and a renewed perspective of civic advocacy, interdependence, and respect for diversity through service-learning trips. An opportunity for a break from college—away from the grind of tests, papers, all nighters, and the stress of figuring out life—can tempt many students to plan carefree trips focused entirely on fun. But you’re different. You’re looking for something more than the Panama City Beach trip. You’re looking to give back and contribute to something that matters, and maybe have some fun in the process. We believe that one of the best decisions you can make in your college years is to invest your spring, summer, or winter break in a time of service, learning, and building community.

• Service Trips

• Volunteer Opportunties

YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly has a century-long tradition of impacting lives, serving youth and shaping tomorrow's leaders. Year after year, YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly provides positive, life-changing experiences and quality programs and services through a well-trained, empowered staff. From arrival to departure, we strive to have a lasting impact upon those we serve. We embrace Christian hospitality and welcome all people from all places. We strive to fulfill the YMCA mission with our daily work, holding true to the values of caring, honesty, responsibility, and respect. We can accommodate day, overnight, and multi-day stays and provide the ideal venue for groups of all sizes.

• Service Trips

• Volunteer Opportunities

Since 1923, the spirit of YMCA Camp Ocoee has been more than just a summer camp experience. The Christian values learned, and the confidence gained by the campers becomes a way of life. Generations of families now have fond memories of their time at Camp Ocoee. Our mission is to provide experiences, under a strong Christian emphasis, that will strengthen the spirit, mind, and body of all its participants. In addition, the activities are focused on helping to prepare youth for challenges they will face in the future. Through their time at Ocoee, campers take away valuable leadership skills that they will use for the rest of their lives.

• Service Trips

• Summer Employment

The Achievement First Teacher-in-Residence program offers aspiring educators a unique opportunity to receive high-quality teacher training and learn how to teach while gradually taking on more teaching responsibility. Achievement First is a growing network of non-profit, high-performing, college-preparatory, K to 12 public charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island. The mission of Achievement First is to deliver on the promise of equal educational opportunity for all of America's children. We believe that all children, regardless of race or economic status, can succeed if they have access to a great education. The one-year teaching residency, in partnership with Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay GSE), is designed specifically for recent college graduates and career changers who are looking for an innovative pathway into the teaching profession. The Achievement First-Relay GSE teaching residency is a proud member of the AmeriCorps National Service Network.

• Post-Graduate Opportunities

Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Teaching Fellows program prepares passionate college graduates from nearly all academic majors and faith traditions to serve children and families as teachers in under-resourced Catholic schools and to grow as leaders while earning a cost-free Masters from Notre Dame. During the academic years, ACE teachers live in small communities of 4-8 members at one of our 35 placement sites and together share the many challenges and rewards of beginning teaching. ACE teachers also spend two summers at Notre Dame, engaging in intensive Master of Education coursework and experiencing the joy of the ACE community. By forming a new generation of committed, faith-filled Catholic school teachers, ACE aspires to sustain and strengthen Catholic education.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

• Internships

The Arbor Center for Teaching, in collaboration with Pacific University, offers a full-time, two-year Teacher Residency guided by experienced mentor teachers to complement formal graduate study of educational ideas and practice. This program results in a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and Oregon teacher licensure. Arbor Teacher Residents learn the art of teaching through a combination of clinical experience and pedagogical reflection.Residents are considered members of the faculty at Arbor School and participate fully in all aspects of school life. Arbor Center for Teaching mission is to work toward turning theory into practice, problems into solutions, and needs into possibilities on behalf of students. For 22 years, the ACT has worked to build community partnerships and to collaborate in training and supporting Teacher Residents throughout their school placements and first years of employment. All Arbor Teacher Residents receive support for finding a job, followed by one-on-one mentorship from an ACT instructional coach after graduation. ACT focus on mentorship throughout the two-year MAT and into the first years of teaching which makes them particularly well suited to build a program that supports and retains teachers from under-represented ethnic, racial and cultural groups as they enter the field.

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Our mission at Breakthrough Greater Boston is to inspire excitement for learning, create paths to college and promote careers in education. Breakthrough Greater Boston prepares low-income students for success in college and trains the next generation of urban teachers using a unique Students Teaching Students model. Through our six-year program, students gain a passion for learning and the perseverance and tools to succeed in college and beyond. Breakthrough Greater Boston offers volunteer opportunities in academic support, college preparation, career exploration, teacher support, projects and administration, events, drives, and special skills, and offers internships and AmeriCorps positions.

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• Post-Graduate Fellowships

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BRIDGES provides 6th - 12th grade students an opportunity to find their voice through unique experiential learning activities that are adventurous, relational and transformative. As a result, participants are empowered to reach across racial and socio-economic divides, are prepared for secondary educational opportunities and careers, and are engaged in civic affairs in their communities. Bridges work to unite and inspire diverse young people to become confident and courageous leaders committed to community transformation!

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City Teaching Alliance is a four-year alternative teacher certification program that works to close the achievement gap in schools by improving teacher quality and preparing a pipeline of high-performing career teachers that stay. City Teaching Alliance believes that qualified, highly effective teachers who stay in the classroom can empower students through learning. City Teaching Alliance recruits diverse, results-oriented individuals and helps them refine and polish their skills to become strong classroom managers by offering a master's from American University School of Education, mentoring and coaching support, and school placement during the crucial first years of teaching. Future teachers will receive a best-in-class preparation, earning a Master of Arts in Teaching degree, with dual-certifications in a content area (elementary education, secondary mathematics, or secondary English language arts) and special education, as well as placement in a full-time teaching position in one of our four partner cities.

• Post Graduate Oppurtunities

City Year was founded in 1988 on the belief that young people can change the world. City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization that unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service aimed at keeping students in school and on track to graduation. At City Year’s 28 urban locations across the U.S. and two international affiliates, teams of trained young people called AmeriCorps members serve full-time in schools during the academic year as tutors, mentors and role models. By focusing on attendance, behavior and course performance, which identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time, AmeriCorps members are positioned to help students and schools succeed.

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Founded in 1999 by John Griffin, iMentor serves more than 10,0000 students through their direct-service programs in New York, Chicago, the Bay Area, and Baltimore, and through their partnerships with local non-profit organizations that implement their models in 51 schools. iMentor matches every student in our high school with a committed college-educated mentor, equipped to guide that young person on their journey to college graduation. iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower first-generation students to graduate high school, succeed in college and career, and achieve their ambitions.

• Post-Graduate Opportunites

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The Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) housed at the Phillips Academy at Andover empowers talented underserved and underrepresented future educators to teach and serve as leaders in American education because diversity is essential to excellence. The IRT offers two distinct programs: the Summer Workshop for college juniors and seniors who intend to pursue graduate study immediately upon completion of their undergraduate degree; and, the Associate Program for college juniors and seniors, recent graduates, and working professionals who want to continue their graduate education in the humanities, social sciences and education.

All participants receive the following support throughout the graduate school application process at no charge, which include:

• Individualized support and extensive counseling as you clarify your graduate education and career goals, choose graduate programs and apply to a renowned consortium of graduate schools across the country;

• Application fee waivers for 10-12 graduate programs, a savings of at least $1,000;

• One-on-one coaching and advising as you fine-tune statements of purpose, resumes, and writing samples;

• Personalized support throughout the matriculation and placement decision-making process.

Memphis Teacher Residency (MTR) is an urban teacher training program that includes a Masters in Urban Education and a full-year internship in an urban school paired with a highly effective mentor. As a response to the gospel mandate to love our neighbors as ourselves, MTR will provide students in our partner neighborhoods with the same, or better, quality of education as any child in Memphis receives by recruiting, training and supporting effective teachers within a Christian context. The MTR residency is open to all majors. During the residency year, MTR provides a stipend, housing and full tuition for the master's degree. Following the residency year, MTR graduates commit to teaching for three consecutive years in a Memphis high need school.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

• Internships

Founded in 1898 — one of the first girls’ boarding schools in Massachusetts — Miss Hall’s School is recognized internationally for its experiential leadership curriculum, service and internship programs, and inclusive global community. Miss Hall’s is committed to its mission of inspiring and encouraging each girl to pursue the highest standards of learning and character; to contribute boldly and creatively to the common good; and to seek a purposeful life based on honor, respect, growth, and personal authenticity. Guided by this mission and sharpened by daily practice, Miss Hall’s continuously reimagines girl-centered education to foster a pioneering intellectual spirit and authentic engagement among students and adults. Located in the Berkshires, the School currently enrolls 180 girls in grades 9-12, with students from 20 countries and 14 states living and learning together as global citizens.

Miss Hall’s School signature experiential and service-learning program, Horizons, is a four-year program that builds sequentially as students progress through their years at the School. It begins with on-campus community service projects in the ninth-grade, introduces off-campus elements in the sophomore year, builds on nonprofit volunteerism as a junior, and concludes with a senior-year internship typically tailored to a student’s college and/or career interests. Serving students from 9th to 12th grade, the Horizons program focuses on building community, connection and leadership for students both on campus, in the Berkshires and beyond!

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• Employment Opportunities

The mission of MOSTe (Motivating Our Students Through Experience) is to mentor and empower girls from underserved neighborhoods of Los Angeles County to become the next generation of college-educated women. One of the ways MOSTe supports girls is by pairing them with professional female mentors who commit to supporting, guiding, and being a friend for a period of at least one year. By becoming part of the social network of adults and community members who care about them, the mentor can help our students develop and reach positive academic, career, and personal goals. Volunteers can also support MOSTe as event volunteers, workshop speakers, college essay-writing tutors, and by donating in kind skills and support

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The mission of Partners for Education at Berea College is to increase educational outcomes in the children we serve and in rural Appalachian Kentucky. We partner with schools, community organizations and parents to increase proficiency in Math and Reading and to increase high school graduation, college going and college success rates.

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Project Pericles is a higher education nonprofit dedicated to advancing civic participation and social responsibility across college campuses. Through faculty leadership programs, community-engaged learning, and co-curricular initiatives, we equip students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to address society’s most pressing challenges. In collaboration with our consortium of colleges and universities ("Pericleans"), we foster institutional commitments to ensure that active civic participation is woven throughout the curriculum and campus culture. By providing funding opportunities, national convenings, and thought leadership, Project Pericles strengthens higher education’s role in preparing students for lives of meaningful impact and public purpose.

Saga Education is an evidence-based, personalized tutoring model designed to support 9th grade students with foundational math skills to build academic confidence and put them on a path toward graduation. Our AmeriCorps members commit to a 10-month, full-time, paid service opportunity in an underserved public school in Chicago, New York City, or Washington DC. AmeriCorps members function as part tutor and part mentor to the same cohort of students every day in small groups of 2-4 students per period. They work to build their students' skills and motivate them all year long to achieve extraordinary results; for instance, a recent study found that Saga students in Chicago gained more than 2.5 years of growth in math in just one year of tutoring.

If you are interested in urban education or social justice work and want a unique opportunity to directly address the needs of students in historically marginalized communities, consider becoming an AmeriCorps member with Saga Education. This is also a rewarding opportunity for graduating seniors who want to take a gap year before graduate, law, or medical school. No matter your background or future goals, this one year of service will have a lifetime of impact on your students and on you.

• Post-Graduate Oppurtunities

Teach For America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization that recruits recent college graduates and professionals to commit two years to teaching in under-resourced, low-income urban and rural public schools across the United States

The GO Project’s vision is to ensure that all under-resourced families with children who are significantly struggling in New York City public schools have access to coordinated, comprehensive, and effective supplemental resources to ensure their child thrives in school and in life. We achieve our vision through our approach and unique partnership model, which utilize the resources of the community--skilled volunteers, partnerships with independent schools, and engagement of our families--to deliver a highly successful program.

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The Philadelphia Center (TPC) is Albion’s Philadelphia-based satellite campus and community innovation test site that welcomes the full spectrum of learners into the liberal arts, while moving experiential pedagogies from best practice to common practice; and activating our students in purposeful citizenship and careers. TPC is Albion College's experimental urban innovation hub. TPC programs and initiatives engage students and community partners in community-based, purpose driven, work experiences (internships, practica, community organizing projects, and other forms of work integrated learning) and innovative experiential pedagogies that demonstrate the relevance and significance of the liberal arts to the challenges of today and tomorrow. All TPC students explore issues of race, equity and inclusion; and simulate purpose driven social change projects as actively engaged citizens, while forging purposeful careers. The Philadelphia Center offers two 16-week Fall/Spring semester terms and a 10-week Summer program, including newly initiated Post-Baccalaureate and Virtual Distance programs. All offerings combine multidisciplinary seminars, a full-time internship experience, city living, and comprehensive advising. We welcome all students from all majors, keeping with our commitment to serving the full-spectrum of learners.

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Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools dedicated to providing outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. With more than 65% of our teachers and staff identifying as a person of color, our 52 schools across Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, and Rochester serve over 20,000 students. Our graduates graduate from college at five times the national rate, powered by our integrated approach to academics, co-curricular programs, and social-emotional learning.

Founded in 2016, UPchieve is a nonprofit that provides free, 24/7 online tutoring and college counseling to low-income 6th–12th grade students across the United States. Through its web and mobile platform, UPchieve connects students with trained volunteer tutors and provides support in subjects like math, science, English, and college readiness at any time. UPchieve's mission is to democratize access to academic support so that all students have an equal opportunity to finish high school, attend college, and achieve upward mobility.

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The mission of Write Away is to close the digital divide by creating opportunities for learners of all ages to use digital tools for writing and expression. Write Away believe that a digitally inclusive world is possible through strategic coaching and mentorship. Together, we can create opportunities, build virtual community, and access the tools needed for 21st century success. Write Away’s Digital Literacy Mentorship program takes action to address this issue. Write Away mentors coach and guide their mentees through a series of writing tasks aimed to promote digital literacy, provide opportunities for self-expression, and foster a love for writing.

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Community Homestead is an innovative, non-profit, sustainable community based in Osceola, Wisconsin. Together, CH community members work in diverse teams to run an organic dairy farm, seventeen acres of CSA garden and orchard, a commercial canning kitchen, and a bakery. Community Homestead supports summer interns looking to develop team and leadership skills alongside people with diverse abilities and disabilities, and to learn farming, gardening, and homesteading skills. Interns join CH households, affording an immersive experience within a community life where everyone is an individual, and everyone is valued. Individualized Internships provide room and board, and a small social stipend is provided.

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Through our mission, we are committed to fostering the next generation of leaders for the Common Good through paid summer nonprofit internships, venture grants to young leaders with new initiatives, and regional operating grants to new and emerging nonprofits.

Forest Foundation supports up to 65 paid summer internships yearly at exceptional non-profit organizations in Greater Boston. Accepted interns are paired with non-profits whose missions align with the intern’s passion, skill sets, and academic path. Accepted interns also attend practical workshops to develop competence in diversity, equity and inclusion, grant writing, leadership, social enterprise, civic engagement, philanthropy, and non-profit finance

Through our FF Ventures initiative, Forest Foundation invites grant proposals from current undergraduate college students, recent college graduates, and others who have created an emerging or new nonprofit in the New England/New York states.

GRID Alternatives was founded with the vision that free, clean electricity from the sun should be available to everyone. The GRID Alternatives model makes solar PV technology practical and accessible for low-income communities that need the savings and jobs the most, yet have the least access. By taking a broader approach to solar as not just an environmental good but also a real-world solution to a real-world economic problem in these communities, GRID Alternatives is helping to set the stage for large-scale solar adoption nationwide. The national SolarCorps Fellowship Program is an opportunity for highly motivated and enthusiastic people to join GRID Alternatives for a one-year, paid term of service to their community. SolarCorps Fellows gain valuable experience in the solar and non-profit industries to help launch their renewable energy careers, while making significant contributions to GRID and the low-income communities we serve. The Corporation for National and Community Service has provided partial funding for the program through AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps VISTA since 2006.

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• Post-Graduate Fellowships

Each year, The Nature Conservancy hires undergraduate students, graduate students, or recent graduates to fill job opportunities and internship positions. These positions are available throughout the country and provide a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between academics and the real-world conservation work that contributes to the health and sustainability of our world. The Conservancy offers internships in a variety of career paths well beyond science and conservation, including marketing, communications, economics, legal, philanthropy, environmental studies, government relations, policy, business management, and information technology.

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• Paid

Amigos de las Américas is a nonprofit organization that inspires leaders through authentic service and immersion experiences.

Preparing Young People for an Interconnected World

• Build cultural competence

• Explore what it means to be a global citizen

• Develop communication and interpersonal skills to connect with all people
  
  

  Becoming Lifelong Leaders in Our Communities

  • Examine volunteering and civic engagement through the framework of ethical service

  • Identify leadership strengths and explore critical issues that affect local and global communities

  • Collaborate with local experts on developing solutions to social issues

Bard NYC is an experiential academic internship program in New York City, which pairs full time study with an internship of 15-20 hours per week. Courses are drawn from a range of academic fields and organized into six interdisciplinary pathways that connect traditional academic disciplines and emerging career paths; these pathways include: Advocacy & Social Justice; The Arts; Data Science & Society; Economics & Finance; International Affairs (BGIA); and Media & Publishing. Internships provide students real-world experience and insight into professional life, augmented by cocurricular and career readiness programming. Bard NYC’s student residence and learning space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn provides a community, while New York City-focused activities and events introduce students to America’s largest city.

The Humanity in Action Fellowships explore issues of social justice, human rights, remembrance culture, and civic engagement. Fellows first participate in an intensive three-week educational program. Each of our programs is tailored to its location, featuring diverse experts, site visits, and community building. Thereby, Fellows learn about the host society’s present struggles to navigate dominant and minoritized cultures and identities, while also being inspired by what collective action based on intersectional solidarity can look like.

Fellows will also acquire practical skills and work on the development of an Action Project, their own civil society initiative. After the three weeks, they embark on implementing these Action Projects in their own communities.

SIT’s mission and approach are guided by core values that unite our community, inform our practices, and drive our decision-making. These values serve as both a reflection and aspiration as we strive to fulfill our mission, helping us frame who we are and who we want to be as an institution of higher education.

Community: We value active togetherness, reciprocity, and respect as the essential ingredients for sustainable community-building. With our presence and our programs, we create a global network of learners empowered to become community builders and collaborators.

Intercultural Understanding: With open minds, empathy, and courage, we facilitate understanding of and respect for the commonalities and differences between people. We do this through cultural immersion and experiential learning, which leads us to seek and create a better world.

Social Inclusion & Justice: We champion inclusion in all that we are and all that we do, from ensuring our community and our programs amplify the voices, agency, and dignity of all people to deliberately instilling the principles and practices of inclusion in all of our work. We seek a world in which individuals and communities are self-determining, interdependent, and equitable.

Sustainability: We are committed to human and environmental well-being and contributing to a better world for all living and future generations.

Tilting Futures (originally Global Citizen Year founded by social entrepreneur Abby Falik), has been at the forefront of educational innovation since 2010. The organization’s Global Citizen Year Fellowship program provided immersive, educational gap year opportunities to 1000 young people worldwide from 2010-2020. The virtual Academy program supported over 1500 students in two short years from 2020-2022. Today, our flagship program, Take Action Lab, builds upon our previous offerings by strengthening our commitment to equity and accessibility.

United Planet is a non-profit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. We connect volunteers who want to make a difference with communities in more than 40 countries, where they learn, teach, work, engage and immerse themselves in a culture outside their comfort zone. For many, it’s the most fulfilling experience of their lives!

Cultural Survival works toward a future that respects and honors Indigenous People’s inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination, and self-governance.

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research and policy institute. We pursue federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and effective ways. We apply our deep expertise in budget and tax issues and in programs and policies that help low-income people, in order to help inform debates and achieve better policy outcomes. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities supports full-time, and occasionally part-time, paid internships in a variety of topic areas including Media, Federal Legislation, Health Policy, Housing Policy, Food Assistance, National Budget and Tax Policy, Outreach Campaigns, State Fiscal Project and Welfare Reform and Income Support Division.

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The Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service offers you a chance to make an impact over the summer through DC Internships. Spend 8 weeks of the summer taking action while getting a hands-on learning experience in the nation’s capital. Your internship will put you on the front-lines working to solve local and national issues. The program involves: competitive placements with local and national nonprofit organizations; 3- 9 transferable credits, selected from a range of course options (accredited by George Mason University); furnished on-campus housing in the heart of DC, at George Washington University; mentoring and career building activities including seminars, site briefings, and guest lectures; and hands-on service projects, fundraising activities and briefings at local nonprofit agencies.

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Founded in 2016, Free the Facts (Ftf) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that provides young Americans-ages 14 to 35- with reliable information about the economic and fiscal policies, programs, and challenges that will impact their lives. Ftf educational programs and leadership initiatives help students form their own opinion, create solutions, and meaningfully participate in the national debate about our country’s biggest challenges. Ftf connects today’s experts with tomorrow’s leaders to get America’s brightest minds working on its biggest problems. Ftf main policy areas are Social Security, Medicare, and health care, federal student loans, and the overall federal budget.

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• Post-Graduate Fellowships

Public Allies is a national movement committed to advancing social justice and equity by engaging and activating the leadership capacities of our young people. Since 1992, we have helped thousands of underrepresented young leaders serve our country, get on successful pathways to higher education and careers, and bring communities together to work for the common good. We operate our signature AmeriCorps program in 25 communities nationwide. We believe that communities already have the leadership they need to create lasting social change. Public Allies seeks to find and cultivate those leaders and connect them to the issues and causes that ignite their passion.

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• Post-Graduate Fellowships

Headquartered in Washington, DC, RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people. Together they use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. RESULTS volunteers are based all around the country and receive training, support, and inspiration to become skilled advocates. In time, volunteers learn to effectively advise policy makers, guiding them towards decisions that improve access to education, health, and economic opportunity. With every hour of their time, volunteers multiply their impact through the enormous power of advocacy — whether it’s helping change policy to support millions of families putting food on the table or helping raise billions of dollars for the world’s most vulnerable children. Backed by the in-depth research and legislative expertise of staff, RESULTS advocates realize the incredible power they possess to use their voices to change the world.

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Stem To The Polls is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to bridging the gap between scientific expertise and civic action. We empower STEM professionals and students to use their unique skills to promote voter education, advocate for evidence-based policy, and strengthen our democratic institutions. We believe that a healthy, inclusive democracy depends on the engagement of the scientific community. Follow us on LinkedIn for regular updates.

• Civic Knowledge 

• Non-Partisan STEM Voting Guides 

• STEM Resources

• Future Volunteer Opportunities

The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is the only national organization [nonpartisan 501(c)(3)] with the sole focus of preparing college women and marginalized gender groups for leadership in the public policy arena. PLEN’s mission is to empower, educate, and engage women and marginalized gender groups in public policy to promote diverse, inclusive leadership in policy making. PLEN was created to educate women for public leadership because they were, and are still, disadvantaged as a result of their gender. By expanding our mission to include people of all marginalized genders, we continue our work to break down gender-based barriers and diversify the field of public policy, which is traditionally dominated by cis-men.

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The mission of the Washington Internship Institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage of the opportunities available in the nation's capital and reflect the best practices of experiential learning and liberal education. In our program, students intern four days out of the week and take two classes related to politics, policy, and career skills. During the fall and spring semesters, typically students earn a full semester's worth of credit from their schools and have their financial aid travel with them--meaning that they pay no more than they normally do to go to their school. We also have a ten-week summer term available. We work with students from all majors who intern in a variety of placements in government, nonprofit organizations, lobbying groups, and think tanks.

• Internships

Unify America is a national nonprofit working to replace political fighting with collaborative problem-solving. Every year, we bring thousands of college students together to build and flex their civic muscles while reducing political polarization through our Civic Gym. The Civic Gym is anchored by two peer-to-peer, virtual dialogue programs featuring real-time, guided video conversations about pressing national issues: Unify Challenge College Bowl: Launched in Fall 2021, the Unify Challenge College Bowl is our flagship program, held three times a year. Students are matched across ideological and geographic differences for a guided discussion about 20 of America’s most critical issues.

The Volcker Alliance is a nonprofit founded by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker, dedicated to advancing his vision of an empowered public sector workforce. The Volcker Alliance empowers the public sector workforce to solve the challenges facing our nation. They envision a public sector workforce with the experience, preparation, and commitment to ensure government is accountable and delivers with excellence.

• Volunteer Opportunties

VoteRiders is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Kathleen Unger, with a mission to ensure every citizen's freedom to vote by providing voter ID education and assistance. They work with partner organizations and 10,000 volunteers across the country.

• Internship Experience

• Civic Knowledge

• Networking

Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is the voice of accredited academic public health, representing schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of members by advancing leadership, excellence, and collaboration for academic public health. Our members are CEPH-accredited schools and programs of public health as well as schools and programs in applicant status for CEPH-accreditation. The ASPPH provides many resources for those interested in pursuing public health graduate studies, including: connection to SOPHAS, the centralized application service, for graduate schools and programs of public health; a series of in-person and virtual fairs allowing students to interact with admissions representatives; online book clubs/Twitter chats to learn more about public health without pursuing a graduate degree; and information about fellowships and scholarships for funding public health education.

• Graduate School Opportunities

Confi is a digital health startup that uses crowdsourcing innovations to create customized sexual assault and health interventions for college-age populations that are expert-approved, relevant, and student-centered. Confi’s mission is to empower people to be confident in themselves, their bodies, and their relationships by providing the most credible health information in an accessible and non-judgmental way. Team Confi consists of researchers, students, and other technology innovators who work with university administrators and prevention experts to develop scalable, student-centered sexual health and sexual assault prevention programming for college students in the United States. Founded in 2015, Confi has conducted a national study on sexual expectations in college-age populations and has developed an online curriculum and content for sex positive sexual health aconfind assault prevention, while working with students from prestigious institutions across the country (i.e. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, MIT).

• Volunteer Opportunities

Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to build healthier communities with young people. Together, they create education opportunities for peers to share the tools and resources young people need to make healthy decisions. Peer Health Exchange works with their partner to work toward advancing health equity and improving health outcomes for young people in under-resourced communities.

• Internships

• Job Opportunities

• Volunteer Opportunties

Students Recover seeks to reduce health and academic disparities and increase the successful matriculation of students in recovery that attend minority serving institutions, community colleges and trade schools that do not offer collegiate recovery programs.

• Remote Internships

• Remote Volunteering

• Wellness Resources

Campus Compact is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the public purposes of higher education. It supports member institutions in building the knowledge, skills, and capacity needed to enable a just, equitable, and sustainable future. Campus Compact envisions colleges and universities as vital agents and architects of a diverse democracy, committed to educating students for responsible citizenship in ways that both deepen their education and improve the quality of community life.

• Responsive Programing & Capacity Building

• AmeriCorps at Campus Compact

• Newman Civic Fellowship

• Impact Awards

CareerSpring is a platform focused on helping underrepresented college students find meaningful career paths. They provide essential tools and connections to make the job market more accessible.

• Personalized Career Support

• Professional Networking

• Workshop Access

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Common Ground USA is the American initiative of Search for Common Ground, the world's largest peacebuilding organization working on the frontlines of conflict around the globe. Common Ground USA works with campus leaders to support dignity, safety, and belonging for all, even and especially in today's polarized times. Learn more about their work across higher education here and join their programs:

• Administrators' Boot Camp: free national program for higher education administrators navigating conflict and polarization on-campus and beyond

• Common Ground Journalism: paid national fellowship for student journalists to humanize differences and highlight solutions to shared problems

The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest national gathering of student leaders, administrators, faculty, and nonprofit staff committed to engaging students in service, activism, politics, advocacy, and other socially responsible work. This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 34-year history. IMPACT is the one time during the year when students, administrators, faculty, AmeriCorps members and VISTAs, and nonprofit professionals gather together to learn and share effective practices, improve personal skills and organizational strategies, discover opportunities and resources, exchange stories, be inspired and challenged to sustain our efforts.

• Networking

• Leadership

At the Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP), we transform communities by equipping social impact leaders – nonprofit, public sector, and social enterprise – with the skills, networks, confidence, and resources they need to effectively lead, advance justice, and make their organizations more effective, innovative, and sustainable.
INP envisions a transformed and thriving social impact sector, driven by effective nonprofits and community organizations with strong and diverse leadership across all levels – from staff to managers and executives and board members. As our nation confronts its long legacy of systemic racism and oppression while simultaneously grappling with a public health crisis, it is more critical than ever that social sector leaders have access to the knowledge, information, experts, and networks they need to expedite social change and keep communities strong.

The National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement (NASCE) is an institutional assessment for measuring how well participating colleges and universities fulfill their missions as they relate to service and community engagement. NASCE comprehensively measures the rate, frequency, and depth of student service and community engagement across 9 areas of human need, and assesses student perceptions of and obstacles to service, as well as institutional structures that impact service participation.

• Assessment

The Sustained Dialogue Institute (SDI) helps citizens around the world to transform their relationships and to design and implement sustainable change processes. The Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) formed as a student-created branch of SDI and has since grown exponentially. It can now be found on over 60 campuses worldwide, and is the process through which countless students, faculty, and staff have solved conflicts and engaged across difference on their campuses over the past 19 years. SDCN’s objective is to develop leaders who engage differences as strengths in order to improve their campuses, workplaces, and communities. The SDI also offers a summer fellowship opportunity for candidates passionate about fields including: civic engagement, dialogue, diversity, inclusion, and conflict resolution. The full-time, 10-week summer fellowship is a great opportunity to gain experience in program development, research and communications, and offers a $4,500 stipend.

• Summer Fellowships

• Trainings

The US Human Rights Network is a national network of organizations and individuals working to strengthen a human rights movement and culture within the United States led by the people most directly impacted by human rights violations. We work to secure dignity and justice for all. USHRN serves as a facilitator and a catalyst to build and expand the base of the domestic human rights movement, supporting the growth of an active, multi-sector movement – one that utilizes the human rights frame to identify the root causes of violations and to call on the government to address the realities on the ground. Currently, USHRN is made up of more than 300 members and partner organizations working on multiple human rights issues.

• Volunteer Opportunities

Solutions Journalism investigates, and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely solved problems. While journalists usually define news as “what’s gone wrong,” solutions journalism tries to expand that definition: Responses to problems are also newsworthy. By adding rigorous coverage of solutions, journalists can tell the whole story. Solutions journalism complements and strengthens coverage of problems. Done well, solutions stories provide valuable insights that help communities with the difficult work of tackling problems like homelessness or climate change, skyrocketing housing prices or low voter turnout. We also know from research that solutions stories can change the tone of public discourse, making it less divisive and more constructive. By revealing what has worked, such stories have led to meaningful change.Their mission is to transform journalism so that all people have access to news that helps them envision and build a more equitable and sustainable world.

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Internships

The Center for FaithJustice (CFJ) inspires the next generation of leaders by creating programs to serve those in need and educate for justice in the Catholic tradition. We join the words “Faith” and “Justice” into a single term to reflect our conviction that faith and justice are intimately bound together. Through our WorX programs, we hope that people of goodwill grow in understanding of the spiritual life and deepen their commitment to pursuing social, economic, and political justice for all people. The CFJ is pleased to offer two distinct retreat spaces in New Jersey to meet the diverse needs of your group for both self-directed and facilitated experiences. The CFJ also provides unique expertise in many areas including authentic service immersion, servant leadership, and youth and young adult faith formation rooted in social justice.

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Retreat Space

Are you trying to figure out what’s next after college? Want to do some good in the world but not sure exactly how or where? Maybe you should consider this new opportunity for young adults to gain a variety of professional skills while living and discerning in an intentional Christian community. First Presbyterian Church of Portland, Oregon, and Menucha Retreat & Conference Center (located just 30 minutes from Portland in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area) supports an intentional faith community called the Presbyterian Community of Practice (although you only have to be Christian, not necessarily Presbyterian, to apply). For a year, four young adults (ages 21-29) will live at Menucha and will serve ministries in both rural and urban settings. Specific ministries and work will depend upon the gifts, skills and interests of participants. They will be designed by participants in consultation with staff of Menucha and First Presbyterian Church. Each participant receives room & board at Menucha, and a monthly stipend. If you are Presbyterian, you qualify for student loan repayment assistance from the PC(USA)’s Season of Service program.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Retreat Space

Quaker Voluntary Service is an 11-month experiment, living at the intersection of transformational spirituality and activism. Young adults work full-time in professional positions at community based organizations addressing a wide range of issues, while living in a cooperative house and worshiping with, and being mentored by, local Quakers. Fellows receive housing, transportation, food, support for health and wellness (including access to health insurance if needed), and a small stipend, while engaging in regular self-led workshops and retreats that allow for continuing education in social justice, faith, and community building topics.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

The Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program is an ecumenical, faith-based year of service for young people, ages 19-30, in over 20 sites around the world and in the United States. Volunteers accompany local agencies working to address root causes of poverty and reconciliation in systems of oppression while exploring the meaning and motivation of their faith. YAVs serve during the academic year, from August to July. Program benefits include a regular stipend, housing, transportation assistance, and student-loan assistance throughout the duration of the service year.

• Post-Graduate Fellowships

Collaboratory® enables higher education institutions to track, analyze, share, and strengthen their community engagement and public service, and to integrate cross-institution, longitudinal data into strategy. Robust reports provide details of activities, collaborators, issue areas addressed, outcomes and outputs, while a public, searchable website informs community members about institutional efforts. Designed for higher education by higher education, Collaboratory supports institutions and the field in furthering their understanding of the practice and scholarship of community engagement. As a certified B-Corp since 2012, we meet the highest standards of social and environmental impact.

• Resources

• Training

GivePulse enables everyone to list, find, coordinate, and measure their impact in the community. Our mission is to enable everyone in the world to participate and engage in lifting their community to new heights. We do so by providing a platform to list, find, organize and measure the impact of service and volunteerism in the community. It starts with one volunteer to build an army that will help improve the world.

• Resources

• Internships

• Job Opportunities