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Programs: Rural Youth Development: Youth In Governance: Links
Here are some web sites that offer resources in the area of YIG and YAP. This is not an all-inclusive list, and we welcome your suggestions on other sites of interest. Contact Sally Miske, Grants Director, National 4–H Council, at smiske@fourhcouncil.edu to suggest websites you would like to see included.
- American Youth Policy Forum
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a non-profit, non-partisan, professional development organization providing learning opportunities for policymakers on youth policy issues at the national, state and local level.
- American Youth Policy Forum
Building On Success: The "Scaling Up" of the Youth Voices Project In Philadelphia
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. It provides grants of about $60 million per year in the areas of education, international peace and security, international development (Commonwealth Africa), and democracy.
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
Youth Vote 2000; They'd Rather Volunteer
- Carnegie Corporation of NY & CIRCLE
The Civic Mission of Schools
- Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Here you will find democracy. In both theory and practice. The work of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship began in 1989 and draws on a rich heritage of people and institutions doing public work to achieve things of lasting importance.
- Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Youth Civic Engagement Reflections on an Emerging Public Idea
- Children's Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
- Children, Youth and Family Consortium, University of Minnesota
The Children, Youth and Family Consortium's web site is a bridge to a wide range of information and resources about children and families. It connects research, teaching, policy, and community practice. And, it seeks to advance greater understanding, shared knowledge, and action that is informed and deliberate.
- CIRCLE
Since 2001, CIRCLE has conducted, collected, and funded research on the civic and political participation of young Americans. CIRCLE is based in the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs and is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Community Partnerships with Youth
Training resources on empowering youth in partnership with adults to better serve communities.
- Corporation for National & Community Service
Created in 1993, the Corporation for National Service is a public-private partnership that engages Americans of all ages in service through three national service initiatives - AmeriCorps, which includes more than 600 local and national programs, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps*NCCC; the National Senior Service Corps, which includes Foster Grandparents, Senior Companions, and the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program; and Learn and Serve America, which provides models and resources for teachers integrating service into classrooms from kindergarten through college.
- Do Something
Through its BRICK Awards program, funds innovative projects started by community activists under the age of 30.
- Education Week
Latest K-12 educational insight and information on developments and programs affecting public and private elementary and high schools.
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to identify and develop pivotal opportunties in entrepreneurship and education. Of particular interest is the web page on Youth Advisory Boards.
- Independent Sector
A coalition of leading nonprofits, foundations, and corporations strengthening not-for-profit initiative, philanthropy, and citizen action.
- Independent Sector
Engaging Youth in Lifelong Service
- Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development works to unleash the potential of youth, adults, organizations and communities to engage together in creating a just and equitable society.
- Institute on Governance
The Institute On Governance (IOG) is a non-profit organization with charitable status founded in 1990 to promote effective governance. The Institute concentrates its work around specific knowledge areas, including: Aboriginal Governance, Accountability and Performance Measurement, Board Governance, Building Policy Capacity, Technology and Governance, Youth and Governance.
- Institute on Governance
Youth and Governance Publications
- Journal of Extension
The Journal of Extension (JOE) is the peer-reviewed, electronic journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System. It seeks to expand and update the research and knowledge base for Extension professionals and other adult educators to improve their effectiveness.
- Journal of Extension
The Rural Families Program Makes a Difference
- National Association of Student Councils
Since 1931 the goal of NASC has been to help all student councils become more effective organizations. NASC represents middle level and high school councils nationwide. It seeks to provide a valuable leadership partnership between students and their school. It creates the opportunity for students to become effective leaders, thus encouraging and influencing a positive school climate.
- National Sevice-Learning Clearinghouse
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.
- National Youth Development Information Center
NYDIC, The National Youth Development Information Center, provides funding, training, policy, research, evaluation, statistical, career, and program information for those who work with or on behalf of youth.
- National Youth Leadership Council, Strategic Youth Initiatives
Provides training and technical assistance related to youth leadership and service-learning
- National Youth Network
NYN educates parents of troubled teenagers about solutions for behavioral and emotional problems, ADD, ADHD, depression, substance abuse, and poor school performance such as wilderness programs, outdoor education, boarding schools, and residential treatment.
- Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change.
- Points of Light Foundation
The Points of Light Foundation, founded in 1990 by former President George Bush, is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes volunteerism. It is the nation's leading advocate for and authority on volunteering.
- Project 540
Project 540 is a revolutionary approach to civic education. Schools around the country are giving students a chance to talk about what matters most to them and to work together for change in their schools and communities. Since 2002, more than 140,000 students have participated at over 230 schools.
- Public Achievement
An initiative of the Center for Democracy and Leadership.
- Purdue Extension
Indiana Government, By the People, is a series of 4–H manuals about state and local government bodies. Hands-on activities, a hallmark of 4–H, are designed for upper elementary and middle school students. The tiles of the manuals are: Introducing the General Assembly, Boards that Run My World, The Indiana Trial Court System, and The Indiana Appellate Process.
- Purdue Extension
Boards that Run My World
- Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) conducts policy-relevant research and facilitates public dialogue to assist policymakers in understanding the rural impacts of public policies and programs. Many policies which are not explicitly "rural policies" nevertheless have substantial implications for rural areas, and RUPRI is dedicated to understanding and articulating these implications.
- Rural School & Community Trust
The Rural School and Community Trust is a national nonprofit organization rooted in rural America. Our mission is to help rural schools and communities get better together.
- Save the Children
America's Forgotten Children; Child Poverty in Rural America
- The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service
The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service (GFCNS) is an affinity group of more than 1,000 foundation and corporate-giving programs nationwide committed to expanding opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to serve their community and their country.
- The Institute for Cultural Affairs
Programs for building community and youth leadership.
- The Johnson Foundation; Wingspread Journal
We bring together scholars, authors and policy makers from around the world to discuss and resolve public policy issues.
- University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia (UCCP)
The University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia (UCCP) brings together organizations and university-based researchers in the Philadelphia area to develop, organize, and promote applied, action-oriented research that can support the programmatic and policy-oriented activities of organizations in low income communities. See link to Youth Projects.
- Youth Activism Project
YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT national clearinghouse encourages youth to participate in public policy decision-making on health, educational, environmental, crime and other community problems.
- Youth As Resources
Connecting youth positively to their communities and improving community life nationally and internationally through the spread of youth-led service initiatives.
- Youth Leadership Institute
A community-based institute that joins with young people to build communities that value, honor, and support youth. Offers a wide array of programs.
- Youth On Board
Resources for involving youth in decision-making.
- Youth Service America
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA (YSA) is a resource center and premier alliance of 300+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally, or globally.
- YouthBuild USA
Encourages youth to take charge of their lives and gain skills that lead to economic independence, while helping rebuild their communities.
You may also wish to check out the Regional Centers for Rural Development:
Note: This list of websites that have on-line resources which may be appropriate for use in developing 4–H Youth in Governance projects. Please note: Linking to any of these sites does not imply endorsement. Content of the links is subject to change, thus their appropriateness as a resource for use with youth may also change.
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