Idealist's Community Action Center (CAC) can help you get started with a project, figure out how to sustain your work, and take action. Check it out and share with friends!
Getting Started
The first section of the CAC can help you to create a shared vision with your teammates, identify issues, plan your first meeting, and more.
Taking Action
The second section can help you to identify resources in your community, work with the media, and plan events.
Sustaining Your Work
The third section can help you to structure your group, foster an inclusive environment, fund your work, assess and reflect, and so on.
IMPACT Conferencecampus culture
The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest convening in the country of campus community members involved in service, activism, politics, advocacy, and other socially responsible work across philosophical and ideological lines.
Generation Change
Generation Change, a project of the Center for Community Change, seeks to recruit, train and support community organizers and emerging grassroots nonprofit professionals through large-scale internships, fellowships, and advanced leadership support for those currently working in the field.
Conscious Lifestyle
College and high school students can find support for their social ventures through Conscious Lifestyle, an organization that helps with funding, skill-building, and professional advice.
Leadership Trainings
Young Women's Ethical Leadership Training
The Woodhull Institute Young Women's Ethical Leadership Core Training program has been developed to educate young women who exhibit leadership potential in their careers, community or family life.
We Got Issues!
The WE GOT ISSUES! Institute is designed to encourage young women’s leadership by tapping into the transformative power of creative expression and unleashing the voice of a new feminine generation.
Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS)
Run by the New York University Wagner School, FELPS "inspires, engages, and connects emerging public service leaders with a unique career planning and professional development opportunity."
Young People For
In addition to many online resources, Young People For offers trainings and events for progressive student leaders.
More Resources for Activists, Public Servants, and Advocates
Young People For
Young People For provides a number of resources - from online toolkits to in-person trainings - to aid young progressives in promoting their values and reaching their long-term leadership goals.
Serve 2.0 Campus Cultureyoung at heartcampus culture
The Bonner Foundation created this resource wiki so people from college campuses can exchange ideas on how to use social media to drive student service and civic engagement.
Do Something
On the Do Something website you can join "a community where young people learn, listen, speak, vote, volunteer, ask, and take action to make the world a better place."
Youth Noise
Create a personal profile and share ideas with other young leaders through this site, which offers "cause channels," discussion boards, and more.
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