National & International Service Organizations

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The following is a list of links to organizations that offer service related opportunities for Cornell students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

If you would like to submit a site to be added to this list, please contact the webmaster.

As a starting point, we recommend: www.actionforchange.org An initiative of Campus Compact that has connected over 300,000 students across the country on over 450 campuses to support student civic engagement and address public issues crucial to our democracy.

Arts and Humanities

Community Arts Partnership (send e-mail to caparts@aol.com)
Hangar Theatre
DeWitt Historical Society
Historic Ithaca
Tompkins County Public Library

Disability Services

Best Buddies
Challenge Industries
Finger Lakes Independence Center
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Ithaca Hearing Loss

Education

Council on International Education Exchange
Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy
LEAPNow: Lifelong Education Alternatives & Programs
Libraries for the Future
Literacy Volunteers of Tompkins County
Sciencenter
Museum of the Earth
Teach for America
UNESCO
Village at Ithaca

Elderly

Center for Intergenerational Learning
Ithaca College Gerontology Institute (questions can be addressed to Penny Branconi at 272-1965)
GlamourGals
Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly
Reconstruction Home

Environment

Cayuga Nature Center
Communities By Choice
Cornell Outdoor Education
Earthwatch
EcoVillage at Ithaca
Green Corps
International Inst. for Natural, Environmental, and Cultural Resource Management
National Audubon Society
National Wildlife Federation
Student Conservation Association

Food Distribution

Food for the Hungry
Heifer Project International
Loaves and Fishes
Northwest Harvest

Higher Education & Student Affairs

Brown University's Swearer Center
Center for Civic Education and Service (Florida State Univ.)
Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe This Week
National Society for Experiential Education
Princeton University Student Volunteers Council
Vanderbilt University's Service-Learning Web Site

Housing and Homelessness

Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization
Habitat for Humanity
Interagency Council on the Homeless
National Coalition for the Homeless
Oxfam America

Human Services

Action Without Borders
AIDSWORK of Tompkins County
Center for Humanitarian Outreach & Inter-Cultural Exchange
Information and Referral of Tompkins County
Ithaca Fire Department
Mental Health Association in Tompkins County
Offender Aid and Restoration
Project Adventure
Suicide Prevention & Crisis Services
Tompkins County Directory
Tompkins County Health Department
Trees for Life
United Nations Volunteers
Volunteers for Peace

International

Community Service Volunteers in the UK
Global Volunteer Network, find opportunities in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, and Romania. Get involved in areas such as teaching English, environmental work, health and sanitation, and cultural home stays.
International Partnership for Service-Learning
Partners of the Americas
Peace Corps
Resources for the Voluntary Sector (a great guide for voluntary organizations in the United Kingdom)
University of California, Irvine, International Opportunities
World Neighbors

Job Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector

Careers for the Common Good, offered through the Swearer Center at Brown University
Cornell Career Services, Nonprofit and Socially Responsible Jobs
Environmental Careers Organization
Everett Public Service Internship Program
Idealist, a global clearinghouse of nonprofit and volunteering resources, which has hundreds of jobs and internships listed; a listserv of job opportunities to which to subscribe; information on fellowships in public service; tips and general advice for nonprofit job seekers; information on colleges and universities (mostly in the U.S.) offering degrees and programs for nonprofit managers; salary surveys of the nonprofit sector; nonprofit professional association information; volunteer opportunities to introduce one to the nonprofit world; and a directory of nonprofit consultants.

Literacy

The American Poetry and Literacy Project

Miscellaneous

Alternatives Federal Credit Union
Tompkins County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA): send e-mail to www.tcspca@ClarityConnect.com

National Service

Best Buddies
Break Away
Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
Contact Center Network
Corporation for National Service
Coro Fellows Program
Directory on International Voluntary Service
echoing green
Global Service Corps
Impact Online
Points of Light
The President's Summit for America's Future-America's Promise
SERVEnet
Service Initiatives
Service-Learning Archive
Venture Consortium
VolunteerMatch
Volunteers for Peace
Volunteers of America

Nonprofit Issues

Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) Search Engine (of best practices and ideas from service programs at different universities)
Ebase: The Interactive Database for Nonprofit Organizations (free database package)
OneWorld (daily news site with guides on any subject related to poverty, human rights, and the environment; quick link to guides)
Philanthropy Search Engine (contains information about charitable giving, volunteering and other nonprofit issues)
Putnam Barber's Information for Nonprofits