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City Year Greater Philadelphia
City Year Greater Philadelphia unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. During their year of service corps, members develop civic leadership skills they can use throughout a lifetime of community service. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 30, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Global Action Project
Global Action Project's mission is to work with young people most affected by injustice to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power, cultural expression, and political change. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 30, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
National Wildlife Federation
Since its founding in 1989, Campus Ecology has become a leading conservation program in higher education. The program is helping to transform the nation's college campuses into living models of an ecologically sustainable society, train a new generation of environmental leaders, ensure a strong future for America's environmental movement, and support and promote positive and practical conservation projects on campus and beyond. Each year more than 100 campuses enroll with NWF to take advantage of their resources and technical assistance. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 30, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Sustainable South Bronx
Sustainable South Bronx is dedicated to Environmental Justice solutions and green jobs through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs. In 2001, SSBx was created to address policy and planning issues like land use, energy, transportation, water, waste, education, and, most recently, design and manufacturing. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 22, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
National Park Foundation
Chartered by Congress in 1967, the National Park Foundation works to raise the funds necessary to meet the most critical needs of the National Park Service. Through its work, NPF programs fund park conservation and restoration efforts, foster youth engagement, promote citizenship and preserve history in the places where it happened. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 22, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Ocean Conservancy
Providing food, fresh water and oxygen to the world, the ocean is essential to all life on Earth, but it is in serious trouble from overuse and pollution. Ocean Conservancy believes it’s time to change our national policies to protect entire ecosystems as the surest way to solve the most critical ocean conservation challenges we face. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Mar 22, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
TEAM Charter Schools
The mission of TEAM Charter Schools is to create a network of schools in Newark, New Jersey, that instill in their students the desire and ability to succeed in college, in order to change the world. TEAM was founded on the belief that Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM). Both inside and outside of the classroom, students are consistently engaged in character-building teamwork with the motto: Team always beats individual. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 23, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
DreamYard Project
DreamYard transforms Bronx public schools and communities through the power of project-based arts learning. As the largest arts education provider in the Bronx, DreamYard impacts the social and intellectual growth of thousands of Bronx students through safe, positive and creatively challenging programs. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 23, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Jumpstart
Jumpstart is a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. To support this mission, they bring college students and community volunteers together with preschool children in low-income communities for a full school year of individualized mentoring and tutoring. Jumpstart’s research-based curriculum is focused on building language, literacy, social and emotional skills in preschool children, while providing our volunteers with a rewarding way to have lasting impact in their communities. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 23, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Citizen Schools
Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for students in the middle grades (6th, 7th and 8th). The program complements classroom learning by engaging students in hands-on learning projects led by adult volunteers after school and supported by a staff of professional educators.Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 23, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Make the Road New York
Make the Road New York promotes economic justice, equity and opportunity for all New Yorkers through community and electoral organizing, strategic policy advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education, and high quality legal and support services. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 3, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Common Ground
Common Ground is a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and other research-based practices that end homelessness. Their network of well designed, affordable apartments — linked to the services people need to maintain their housing, restore their health, and regain their economic independence — has enabled more than 4,000 individuals to overcome homelessness. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Feb 3, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process, rooted in the traditions of mural-making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives. Share this video through Email, Facebook & Twitter via Spread The Word.
Jan 28, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Citizen Active - A Plum TV Original Series
Citizen Active is a Plum original series devoted to remarkable people who are working for important change. Their approaches are innovative and transformative. These are individuals who treat global and local problems as personal responsibility. They are rolling up their sleeves and getting involved. This exciting four-part documentary series captures the rising spirit of civic activism. As challenges multiply, so does this grassroots corps of individuals actively seeking solutions.
Jan 27, 2010 in Citizen Active - Featured Organization
Featured Organizations
Community BuildingCity of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Unites artists and communities through a collaborative process, rooted in the traditions of mural-making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
Common Ground
A pioneer in the development of supportive housing and other research-based practices that end homelessness.
Make the Road New York
Promoting economic justice, equality and opportunity for all New Yorkers.
Education
Citizen Schools
Complementing classroom learning by engaging students in hands-on learning projects.
Jumpstart
Dedicated to ensuring that every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Volunteers are paired with preschool children for a full school year of individualized mentoring and tutoring.
DreamYard Project
DreamYard transforms Bronx public schools and communities through the power of project-based arts learning.
TEAM Charter Schools
Instilling in students of a Newark Charter school the ability to succeed in college and the desire to change the world.
Environment
Ocean Conservancy
Works to change our national policies to protect entire ecosystems as the surest way to solve the most critical ocean conservation challenges.
National Park Foundation
Raising the funds to meet the most critical needs from park conservation to youth engagement, promote citizenship and historical preservation.
Sustainable South Bronx
Bringing environmental justice and green jobs to an underserved community through innovative, economically sustainable projects.
Next Generation
City Year Greater Philadelphia
Unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world.
Global Action Project
Works with young people most affected by injustice to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power, cultural expression, and political change.
Wildlife Federation
Provides a framework to help educators integrate sustainable principles throughout their schools and curriculum.
