Organizations
The American Democracy Project
The ADP is a multi-campus initiative that seeks to create an intellectual and experiential understanding of civic engagement for undergraduates enrolled at institutional members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). The goal of the project is to produce graduates who understand and are committed to engaging in meaningful actions as citizens in a democracy.
Animating Democracy
Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts Institute for Community Development and the Arts, fosters arts and cultural activity that encourages and enhances civic engagement and dialogue.
Campus Compact
National coalition of 950 college and university presidnets committed to the civic purposes of higher education.
Center for Civic and Community Engagement, Penn State Delaware County
Information on guest speakers, campus events open to the public, and other ways Penn State Delaware County engages in public scholarship and democracy.
Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota
Draws on a rich heritage of people and institutions doing public work to achieve things of lasting importance.
CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement)
Conducts, collects, and funds research on the civic and political participation of young Americans.
Claiming Public Space
An information commons and archive for the public-interest art, architecture and design community.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
CCPH is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. An excellent resource for web links and journals on community-based organizations and research.
The Democracy Imperative
The Democracy Imperative: Mobilizing Higher Education for Deliberative Democracy, based at the University of New Hampshire, is a community of practice and national network of multidisciplinary scholars, campus leaders and civic leaders in the fields of democracy building, public deliberation, democratic dialogue, and social change.
Design Corps- Community Design Resources
Links students, architects, and others interested in community design.
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan
Strives to engage students, faculty members, university staff, and community partners in a process which combines community service and academic learning in order to promote civic participation, build community capacity, and enhance the educational process.
Haas Center for Public Service
Connects academic study with public service to strengthen communities and develop effective public leaders.
The Kettering Foundation
An operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of inventive research
The Loka Institute
Research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
National journal on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
National Conference on Citizenship
A webcast of this September 18, 2006 conference featuring the nation's civic health and the release of America's Civic Health Index: Broken Engagement.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Supports the service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based initiatives, and tribal programs.
Pennsylvania Campus Compact
State-wide consortium of colleges and universities, aiming to influence the development of strong leaders capable of, and experienced in, addressing some of the most pressing social needs of their communities.
Pew Research Center
Numbers, Facts, and Trends Shaping Your World, new web site of the PEW Center for the People and the Press. The site offers original content and serves as a portal to the latest findings from seven Pew Projects.