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Volunteer Links
General Volunteer Links
Points of Light Institute
http://www.pointsoflight.org/
Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world. We have the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges. With more than 20 years of history, a bi-partisan presidential legacy, the largest national volunteer footprint in the nation, Points of Light has the vision and strategy to create a quantum leap for the service movement through 2012.
Hands on Network
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/
Action that Changes the World. Through our network of more than 250 HandsOn Action Centers, you can find volunteer projects and programs that align your passion with real needs in your local community. You can get trained to become a volunteer leader, or you can use your professional skills to get a local non-profit on track. The options are endless.
America’s Promise
http://www.americaspromise.org/
America ’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth is dedicated to mobilizing individuals, groups and organizations from every part of American life, to provide five fundamental resources for children.
VolunteerMatch
http://www.volunteermatch.org/
VolunteerMatch is the nonprofit, online service that helps interested volunteers get involved with community service organizations throughout the United States . Volunteers enter their Zip code on the VolunteerMatch web site (www.volunteermatch.org) to quickly find local volunteer opportunities matching individual interests and schedules.
United Way of America
http://www.liveunited.org/
United Way of America is the national organization dedicated to leading the United Way movement in making measurable impact in every community across America . The United Way movement includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated, and governed by local volunteers.
Bergen County ’s United Way
http://www.bergenunitedway.org/
Bergen County ’s United Way is a local, not-for-profit organization, run by volunteers and leaders from your company, your neighborhood, and your community. Our job is to help people. We do it by offering personalized service to people and organizations that want to help others, and by supporting vital local services that help many. All the decisions our United Way makes - what programs to offer, what services to support - are made by people like you, here in Bergen County, with an eye toward what our community needs.
Independent Sector
http://www.independentsector.org/
Independent Sector is the only national forum that brings together foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the nonprofit sector. Independent Sector members include many of the nation's leading foundations, prominent and far-reaching nonprofits of all sizes, and Fortune 500 corporations with strong commitments to community involvement. This network represents thousands of organizations and millions of volunteers, donors, and people served.
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Volunteer Management Links
Energize
http://www.energizeinc.com/
Energize is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism. If these words are in your vocabulary--community service, membership development, auxiliary, community organizing, service-learning, lay ministry, pro bono work, supporter, friends group, political activist, service club-- we can help!!
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Mentoring Links
The National Mentoring Partnership
http://www.mentoring.org/
The National Mentoring Partnership is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in finding out more about mentoring. Find out how to start a program, find a mentor or be a mentor. Worth a visit!
Who Mentored You?
www.whomentoredyou.org
National Mentoring Month is an annual initiative to recruit volunteer mentors for young people. Who Mentored You is a site for National Mentoring Month which is spearheaded by the Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. There are inspirational stories of mentor/mentee pairs including famous celebrities and the people who mentored them.
A World Fit for Kids!
http://www.worldfitforkids.org/
A World Fit for Kids! started in an area of Los Angeles where violence is a way of life. It teaches kids to become mentor coaches, and then they, with the help of the program coordinators, run a program that engages elementary through high school students in fitness activities that build self esteem, teach conflict resolution, and foster leadership skills.
Search Institute
http://www.search-institute.org/
Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. It provides leadership for national initiatives, including Healthy Communities - Healthy Youth, whose mission is to motivate and equip individuals, organizations, and their leaders to join together in nurturing competent, caring, and responsible children and adolescents.
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Family Volunteering
Doing Good Together
http://www.doinggoodtogether.org/
The mission of Doing Good Together is to inspire and help families volunteer.
The Volunteer Family
http://www.thevolunteerfamily.org/
The Volunteer Family encourages and facilitates family volunteering while simultaneously assisting local agencies plan and prepare for family volunteers. We help strengthen familial bonds while assisting local agencies serve our community's most pressing needs.
Energize Inc.
http://www.energizeinc.com/
Energize empowers and inspires leaders of volunteers worldwide. Their specialty is creating and selecting the most relevant, innovative resources in volunteer management.
Hands On Network
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/getinvolved
Action that Changes the World. Through our network of more than 250 HandsOn Action Centers, you can find volunteer projects and programs that align your passion with real needs in your local community. You can get trained to become a volunteer leader, or you can use your professional skills to get a local non-profit on track. The options are endless.
Points of Light Institute
http://www.pointsoflight.org/
Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world. We have the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges. With more than 20 years of history, a bi-partisan presidential legacy, the largest national volunteer footprint in the nation, Points of Light has the vision and strategy to create a quantum leap for the service movement through 2012.
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Youth Volunteering /Leadership Development
Youth Service America
www.ysa.org
Youth Service America is a resource center and the premier alliance of 300+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally or globally. YSA’s mission is to strengthen the Effectiveness, Sustainability and Scale of the youth service movement.
Do Something
www.dosomething.org
Do Something Mission: We inspire young people to believe that change is possible, and we train, fund and mobilize them to be leaders who measurably strengthen their communities.
Youth Build
www.youthbuild.org
YouthBuild is a comprehensive youth and community development program as well as an alternative school. YouthBuild, designed to run on a 12-month cycle, offers job training, education, counseling, and leadership development opportunities to unemployed and out-of-school young adults, ages 16-24, through the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in their own communities. Many graduates go on to construction-related jobs or college.
Kids Care
www.kidscare.org
Kids Care works to develop compassion and the spirit of service and philanthropy in elementary and middle school aged youth. This site provides monthly service projects, compassion education, model programs, project resources, and partners based on issues such as literacy, hunger, poverty, the sick, and the elderly.
For a complete list of Youth website please click here . (Link to Teen Page links)
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Employee Volunteering
Business for Social Responsibility
www.bsr.org
Business for Social Responsibility (BSP) is a global organization that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment. The BSR Resources offers a collection of extensive research, investigative tools and practical guidelines on responsible business practices. These resources help expand understanding and create your business case by which corporate responsibility (CSR) is adopted and advanced at your company and throughout the world.
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Non-Profit Management
Charity Navigator
http://www.charitynavigator.org/
Charity Navigator, America 's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,400 of America 's largest charities.
Guidestar.org
http://www2.guidestar.org/
If you care about nonprofits and the work they do, then you're affected by what GuideStar does. GuideStar encourages nonprofits to share information about their organizations openly and completely. Any nonprofit in our database can update its report with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs—for free. We combine the information that nonprofits supply with data from several other sources.
The Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center 's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grant seekers succeed.
To achieve our mission, we:
* Collect, organize, and communicate information on U.S. philanthropy
* Conduct and facilitate research on trends in the field
* Provide education and training on the grant seeking process
* Ensure public access to information and services through our World Wide Web site, print and electronic publications, five library/learning centers, and a national network of cooperating collections.
Support Center For Nonprofit Management
www.supportctr.org
Support Center for Nonprofit Management strengthens the leadership and management capacity of nonprofit and public interest organizations to fulfill their missions and vitalize their communities. They provide management training and consulting, disseminate information to the sector, and build strategic alliances.
Innovation Network, Inc.
www.innonet.org
Innovation Network, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit dedicated to building the evaluation capacity of nonprofits, so they can better serve their communities. All of Innovation Network's services are based on the principle that the key to building effective and sustainable nonprofits is "participatory evaluation" - the practice of involving all members of an organization in ongoing learning to ensure long-term organizational health. Innovation Network delivers services through consulting, workshops and well-based tools.
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Virtual Volunteering
VolunteerMatch's Virtual Volunteering
www.volunteermatch.org/virtual
Do you want to volunteer, but don't have the time to show up in person? Well, now it's possible. Check out how you can volunteer "remotely" through VolunteerMatch's Virtual Volunteering opportunities! Virtual Volunteering allows anyone to contribute their time and expertise without ever leaving their office or home. It eliminates the barriers which prevent good people from getting involved: work schedules, transportation issues, or disabilities. And even if you're not facing these challenges, it's a creative, new way to give of yourself! So put your talents to work by signing up for a virtual opportunity. You can critique a press release, design a web site, become a helpline telephone volunteer, or tutor a child -- all by email, fax or phone. So what are you waiting for? Sign up to get involved!
Service Leader
www.serviceleader.org
Extensive, comprehensive resources to help agencies involve volunteers via the Internet. Includes materials to help service leaders use the Internet to work with and better serve both online and onsite volunteers. Updated monthly!
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Board Development
Board Source
http://www.boardsource.org
BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards, is the premier resource for practical information, tools and best practices, training, and leadership development for board members of nonprofit organizations worldwide. Through our highly acclaimed programs and services, BoardSource enables organizations to fulfill their missions by helping build strong and effective nonprofit boards.
Board Net
http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp
Board Net is the unique website revolutionizing the way nonprofit boards and new leaders find each other. If you're an individual interested in board service or a nonprofit looking for a new board member Board Net is the place to go.
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