Helpful Web Sites On
Community Service and Service Learning

  •  Campus Compact
    www.campuscompact.org
    National organization of over 750 colleges and universities dedicated to service learning and community involvement. 
  •  College Values
    www.collegevalues.org
    This web site explores the roles of universities in developing moral and civic learning among college students.
  • The Corporation for National and Community Service
    www.nationalservice.org
    This organization was formed to engage Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to meet community needs.
  •  Diversity Works
    www.diversityweb.org
    Provides resources to colleges and universities that want to address issues of diversity as part of civic engagement.
  •  Energize, Inc.
    www.energizeinc.com
    Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism.
  •  Idealist
    www.idealist.org
    You can search or browse over 56,000 nonprofit and community organizations by name, location or mission in 165 countries.
  •  MA Campus Compact
    www.ase.tufts.edu/macc
    A membership organization of college and university presidents leading Massachusetts’s institutions of higher education in building a statewide collaboration to promote service as a critical component of higher education.
  •  Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network
    www.pointsoflight.org
    Engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
  •  Service Learning
    www.servicelearning.org
    Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
  •  Verite Mission
    www.verite.org
    An independent, non-profit social auditing and research organization established in 1995, whose mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal working conditions.
  •  Youth Vote Coalition
    www.youthvote.org
    The nations largest non-partisan coalition working to increase the political involvement of 18-30 year olds.

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Service Work After College
(Volunteer and Paid Positions)

  •  AmeriCorps 
    www.americorps.gov
    AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet our country’s critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.
  •  AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
    www.avodah.net
    They integrate work for social change, Jewish learning and community building. It provides an opportunity for young Jews to live out and deepen their commitments to Jewish life and social change through a year of work in low-income communities in New York City and Washington, D.C.
  •  Jesuit Volunteer Corp
    www.jesuitvolunteers.org
    This organization embraces the following values while living out a commitment to faith and justice:  Social justice, simple life-style, community and spirituality.
  •  Jewish Campus Service Corps
    www.jcscfellowship.org
    This is a paid, one or two-year fellowship that enables recent college graduates to work on campuses across North America helping students connect with their Jewish identities and with the Jewish community on campus.
  •  Lutheran Volunteer Corps
    www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org
    Yearlong service program for people 21 and over seeking to unite faith, social justice, community living, and simplicity. Volunteers are matched with non-profit organizations in ten metropolitan areas across the US.
  •  Mercy Corps
    www.mercycorps.org
    Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds.
  •  Ministry Search
    www.ministrysearch.com/view.shtml
    MinistrySearch is designed to help you fill or find Christian ministry job positions. We strive to provide a valuable, user-friendly site that allows you to search for people and positions nearly any way you wish.
  •  Mission Volunteers in the USA (Presbyterian Church) 
     www.pcusa.org/nvo
    This is an opportunity for students to share their skills in ministries of service throughout the United States. Mission Volunteers USA serve from a few weeks to a year or more.
  •  Peace Corps
    www.peacecorps.gov
    Since 1960, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 138 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. This agency of the federal government is devoted to world peace and friendship.
  •  Teach For America
    www.teachforamerica.org
    This organization "calls upon the most determined and talented college students - from all academic and career interests, and from all backgrounds and perspectives - to teach for two years in our country's lowest income communities and gain the insight and conviction to provide the future leadership necessary to eliminate educational inequity."

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*Neither the Volunteer Connection Center nor Western New England College promotes, supports or endorses one particular organization or political or religious viewpoint. Information is provided on a breadth of agencies and topics so that students, faculty and staff can select the organization that best serves their needs and/or interests.