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Make A Difference Day Friends
Beyond Make A Difference Day, others on the Web offer
resources and projects that can help you make a difference every day.
 The
Points of Light Foundation, the non-profit partner in USA
WEEKEND's Make A Difference Day, is the nation's leader inpromoting
more effective volunteering through initiatives focused on strengthening
volunteer leadership, increasing the quality ofvolunteer opportunities
and raising the national awareness of the importanceof volunteering.
Newman's
Own: The Newman's Own Foundation continues Paul Newman's commitment to donate all profits to charity. More than $270 million has been given to thousands of charities since 1982. The site also includes information on his summer camps for kids who have cancer and blood diseases.
America's
Promise: Founded in Philadelphia, at the Presidents' Summit
for America's Future, America's Promise aims to provide every
at-risk child in America with access to all resources needed in
orderfor them to lead happy, healthy, and productive lives.
The Corporation
for National Service oversees three national service initiatives
which engage over a million Americans in community projects. Americorps
allows people of all ages to earn help paying for education in
exchange for a year of service. Learn and Serve America supports
teachers and community members who involve young people in service
that relates to their school studies. And the National Senior
Service Corps helps people age 55 and older find service opportunities
related to their interests.
The
National Assembly: This is a great stop for anyone interested
in human serviceas a career. Dedicated to youth development, their
homepage includes anewsletter and the On-line Directory For Internships
in Youth Development.The directory allows job hunters, counselors,
students and retirees to searcha database of over 2,000 paid and
non-paid youth development internships.
The Global
Service Corps invites you to address social inequities and
environmental problems around the world. At the same time, you
can experience learning and friendship through working with, and
living inthe homes and communities of Global Service Corps partners
andhosts in Kenya, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Thailand. This experience
is available through volunteer project trips as well as longer term
volunteeropportunities.
Volunteers
of America 49 community-based service organizations throughout
the U.S. offer more than 160 different programs that help people
including children, youth, the elderly, families in crisis, the
homeless, people with disabilities or mental illness, and ex-offenders
returning to society.
Look into this compilation of local volunteer opportunities
put together by Children
Now an organization that promotes solutions to improve the
lives of America's children. Children Now is recognized nationally
for its policy expertise and up-to-date information on the status
of children, as well as its leading work with the media to improve
newscoverage about children.
Volunteermatch.org is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help everyone find a great place to volunteer, and offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
Ohio's Governor's Community Service Council is Ohio's state office of volunteerism and community service. The Council administers, coordinates, and/or funds; AmeriCorps programs in Ohio, Community-based Service Learning, Youth leadership activities, and other activities and programs that promote, support, and connect volunteerism, service, learning, and giving in Ohio.
National groups that encourage local
participation in Make A Difference Day
- Aid Association for Lutherans- Altrusa International- AARP Create The Good - AmeriCorps- AMVETS- Big Brothers
& Big Sisters of America- Boy Scouts- Boys & Girls Clubs of America-
Camp Fire Boys & Girls- Campus Outreach Opportunity League- Capitol
Records/Nashville- Catholic Family Life Insurance- Chase Manhattan-
Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America- Delta Sigma Pi- ERA
Realty- Farm Aid- General Federation of Women's Clubs- Girl Scouts-
Golden Key National Honor Society- Goodwill Industries- J.C. Penney-
KaBoom!- Keep America Beautiful- Kiwanis- Knights of Columbus- League
of Latin American Citizens- LensCrafters- Lutheran Brotherhood-
Miss America Organization- National 4-H Council- NetDay- RSVP- Salvation
Army- Slovene National Benefit Society- Special Olympics- State
Farm Insurance- Students in Free Enterprise- Telephone Pioneers
of America- U.S. Air Force- U.S. Army- U.S. Navy- United Way of
America- USA Harvest- Veterans of Foreign Wars- VISTA- World SHARE
AARP Create The Good is a volunteer and civic engagement network of programs, ideas and opportunities. It's for people of all ages, with any amount of time to give. Through Create The Good, you can make new connections, and find new tools and ideas to help spread good in your community.
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