Regional, North America, United States, Society and Culture, Organizations

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• - A not-for-profit organization that helps promote and encourage acts of individuals and groups and creates alliance networks with successful programs. Features stories, sponsor opportunities, and newsletter.
  
• - A non-profit association of U.S. companies and universities dedicated to the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction through commercialization of technologies for peaceful purposes.
  
• - Helps build housing that lets homeless and disabled people connect to homes, health care, jobs, and the community.
  
• - In each chapter, citizen volunteers provide support to emotionally traumatized citizens immediately after tragedy strikes.
  
• - Identifies talented young adults from diverse backgrounds and advances their leadership skills through full-time, paid apprenticeships in nonprofit organizations and team service projects. Features volunteer opportunities and news.
  
• - Advocates for the nation's Community Action Agencies (CAA) and the low-income people that it supports. Features an events calendar, current issues and news, and neighborhood action resources.
  
• - NCCJ's programming facilitates community and interfaith dialogues, provides workplace consultations, youth leadership development, and seminarian and educator training. Its research provides data and analysis to the evolving study of intergroup relations
  
• - Identifying needs that are not being met due to lack of funding, such as security for schools.
  
• - Helps local organizations in rural America build affordable homes. Includes information about loans, technical assistance, training, links, publications and relevant articles.
  
• - Neighborhoods, USA is a national non-profit organization committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations.
  
• - National membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the art and historic artifacts of America's cultural heritage for future generations.
  
• - Day for volunteers to help maintain US public lands. Activities include bridge and trail building, clearing invasive plants. Activities report, photograph contest, newsletter, and resources for site managers.
  
• - Represents and protects the standing and advancement of psychoanalytic social work practitioners and educators psychoanalytic theory and knowledge within the social work profession and the public. Newsletters, committees, publications, and membership info
  
• - Helps people and institutions collaborate to solve public problems.
  
• - Non-profit corporation and membership organization. Primary goal is to register evaluators based on specific criteria and disseminate information concerning the education, training, and experience of registered custody evaluators.
  
• - Mission is to educate and promote awareness of volunteerism, and to raise funds for various charities in America.
  
• - Official site for the anti drug programs run by local police departments. The DARE Kid's area includes games, kids' news, poems and essays by children, facts about tobacco usage and Daren's memory game.
  
• - Coalition of law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and citizens organizing National Night Out, an annual crime and drug prevention event. Includes membership information, event registration, and photos.
  
• - Nonpartisan group of advocacy, policy and research organizations dedicated to strengthening rural America. Frequently asked questions, news, statistics, and how to help.
  
• - A nonprofit organization providing educational opportunities and support services to more than 106 chapters across the nation, involving over 24,000 members. Members are dedicated to improving their local communities through effective volunteerism. NAL es
  
• - Franco-American organization between Alsace, a French region, and America. Offers governmental and cultural exchanges, twinning activities, the Boston and Strasbourg sister city program.
  
• - A collaborative multi-state effort by Extension Services across the country to improve the delivery of services to citizens affected by disasters.
  
• - An alliance of national anti-poverty organizations based in the United States.
  
• - Assists state, tribal, regional and local governments, and non- and for-profit organizations in implementing advanced geospatial information technologies. Features include projects, publications, education programs, and downloads.
  
• - The main purpose of newcomers clubs is to welcome new members and help them integrate into the local community through general meetings, social events, member support groups, interest groups and children's activities.
  
• - National organization representing the interests of the 1,000 Community Action Agencies (CAAs) working to fight poverty at the local level.
  
• - Works to preserve and rehabilitate the houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children. Includes news, programs and FAQ.
  
• - A public-private partnership that engages Americans of all ages in service through three national service initiatives - AmeriCorps, the National Senior Service Corps, and Learn and Serve America.
  
• - A resource where parents learn new effective parenting skills. This foundation provides a source of information for parents, giving them the tools necessary to create an encouraging, and loving home for their children.
  
• - A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the administration of juvenile justice, research into the incidence, cause, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
  
• - Promote the scientific study of society. Provides information about state associations. Offers a list of current officers, their constitution and by-laws and site links.
  
• - National project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound. How to participate, a question generator, and excerpts of stories from their archives.
  
• - Organization devoted to preserving traditional foodways and educating people about food as a center of community. Membership information and press clippings.