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Ready...Set...Serve!
Welcome
Educators!
Volunteer PowerCrew is
the ultimate resource for middle and high school
students to get involved in the community. By
registering and logging in, you
are entitled to view hours posted by your students, post
and manage projects of your own and run reports of volunteer
hours. If you're not already registered, take a moment and register by clicking
on
the
appropriate button below.
Volunteer
PowerCrew is here to help you and your students make
meaningful contributions to the community. The following are a few
resources that will help bring Service Learning into your classroom.
Service
Learning
A
teaching methodology that enriches instruction by
providing
thoughtfully designed opportunities for learners
to use their skills and
knowledge in service to and with the community.
Service
Learning Trainings
Volunteer
PowerCrew provides free training to educators who want
to
enhance their current classroom activities by
implementing service learning.
During
the training, educators receive instruction on how to
introduce and
integrate community service into their current
classroom curriculum. For
more information on upcoming service learning
trainings, click the link
above.
How
to start a service organization
Many
educators have the desire to start service organizations
in their school
or community. Volunteer PowerCrew is available to
help you get started.
Please contact
us with any questions you may have. Also, below
is a
resource
that may help you on the road to building a successful
organization.
Action
Without Borders: Connects
people, organizations and resources to help
build a world where all people can live free
and dignified lives.
Additional
Resources
Here
are some great sites that offer information about youth
volunteering, service learning and how to start service
organizations at your school. Don't forget to track your
students' hours on our Web site. Volunteer
PowerCrew and the Volunteer Center of North Texas is a
certifying organization for the Presidential
Volunteer Service Award.
Do Something
www.dosomething.org
Do
Something is a nation-wide nonprofit organization
whose mission is
to give young people the tools, inspiration and
opportunity to make
a
difference.
Energize
www.energizeinc.com
Energize,
Inc. is an international training, consulting and
publishing firm
specializing in volunteerism.
Kids
Care Clubs
www.kidscare.org
A
program of the Points of Light Foundation whose mission
is to develop
compassion and the spirit of service and
philanthropy in elementary and
middle school aged youth.
Learn
and Serve America
www.learnandserve.org
Learn
and Serve America supports service learning programs in
schools and community organizations that help nearly one
million students
from kindergarten through college meet community needs,
while improving
their academic skills and learning the habits of good
citizenship.
National
Youth Leadership Council
www.nylc.org
For
more than two decades, NYLC has led a movement linking
youth,
educators and communities to redefine the role of
young people in society.
That movement is service learning and it empowers
youth to transform
themselves from recipients of information and
resources into valuable,
contributing members of a democracy.
President's Volunteer Service Award
www.presidentialserviceawards.gov
The
President’s Volunteer Service Award was created to
recognize the tens
of millions of Americans who have made a sustained
commitment to
volunteer service. The award is given to individuals,
families and groups
that have demonstrated outstanding volunteer service and
civic participation
over the course of a 12-month period. Remember to track
your hours on the
Volunteer PowerCrew Web site and tell us when you have logged
the
appropriate
number of hours so that we can send
them in to the awards
committee.
Service
Leader
www.serviceleader.org
ServiceLeader.org,
a project of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and
Community Service at the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs of the
University of Texas at Austin, provides
information on all aspects of
volunteerism.
Service
Learning
www.servicelearning.org
The
Learn and Serve America National Service Learning
Clearinghouse
(NSLC) supports the service learning community in
higher education,
kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based
initiatives and tribal
programs, as well as all others interested in
strengthening schools and
communities using service learning techniques and
methodologies.
Youth
Service America
www.ysa.org
YSA
is a resource center that partners with thousands of
organizations
committed to increasing the quality and quantity
of volunteer opportunities
for young people in America, ages 5-25, to serve
locally, nationally, and
globally.
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