Other Youth Grantmaking Resources
Learning in Deed
Tools for educators and students to learn about quality programs and ways to tell your story, and connect with others implementing service-learning programs.
Learning to Give
This is a grassroots teacher-led effort to infuse academic content about philanthropy and the service learning process into the curriculum. The lessons, units and materials that are a part of the curriculum contain both academic content about philanthropy and skill development activities, which involve students in giving and serving their communities.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
The Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse supports the service-learning community including kindergarten through grade twelve, as well as all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies. Click on "Resources" to find a variety of support materials.
Participatory Evaluation with Young People
This workbook was prepared to help young people develop knowledge for action and change through program evaluation, community assessment, policy analysis or other studies. It provides practical tools for participatory evaluation, including steps in the process, methods of gathering information, making sense of the findings, and formulating strategies for creating change. Made available through the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Project Plan-It!
Youth Service America's online project planning tool to help young people develop a custom plan for their service project using the Internet. Project Plan-It! uses an interactive series of questions and templates that guide the user through the project planning process, and allows them to print out their plan, timeline, budget, funding proposal, press release, service-learning reflection plan, and other helpful resources.
Other national organizations supporting youth in community development:
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. Founded in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media and the general public.
WINGS
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support is a global network of more than 100 membership associations and support organizations serving grantmakers, which have joined together to:
- create opportunities to learn from and support one another
- develop modes of communication and collaboration among themselves
- contribute to the strengthening of philanthropy worldwide
See also the organizations listed in the C101 Workbook under RESOURCES: Curriculum Resources and Student Action Organizations.
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