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Type	Title
Organizations	America's Unofficial Ambassador	America’s Unofficial Ambassadors (AUA) is a citizen diplomacy initiative dedicated to increasing the number of Americans who volunteer in the Muslim World. From archaeologists to engineers, Unofficial Ambassadors volunteer with grassroots organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to meet some of the Muslim World’s most urgent development needs in areas such as education, youth services, and civil society.
Organizations	YBM Premier	YBM Premier is an adult language school with a primary focus of delivering English language instruction in Asia.
Organizations	Amizade Global Service-Learning	Amizade empowers individuals and communities through worldwide service and learning.
Organizations	Seeds of Peace	Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. The Seeds of Peace camp is located in Maine, USA.
Organizations	Public Allies Pittsburgh	Since 2006 the Public Allies Pittsburgh program has changed the lives of program participants and the community through a rigorous AmeriCorps program that combines full-time, paid apprenticeships in nonprofits with intensive skills training, active community-building projects, personalized coaching, and critical reflection. We provide all of this through a nationally recognized approach that’s rooted in a practice of values.
Organizations	Public Allies National	Public Allies' mission is to advance new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits and civic participation. Public Allies is changing the face and practice of leadership in communities across the country by demonstrating our conviction that everyone can lead, and that lasting social change results when citizens of all backgrounds step up, take responsibility, and work together. There are Public Allies offices in over a dozen cities in the USA.
Organizations	Agencia Latinoamerica de Informacion (ALAI)	ALAI is a communications organization committed to human rights, gender equality, and people's participation in the development of Latin America. ALAI works for the democratization of communication. To that end, it has developed a model of alternative communication that aims toward the formation of a new fabric of communication that is democratic, widespread, decentralized and multicultural.
Organizations	Amazon-Africa Aid Organization (3AO)	3AO is a US nonprofit that partners with the Brazilian NGO Fundacao Esperanca to support the work of Bill Chase Dental Clinic in the Brazilian Amazon. Located within the small city of Santarem, the clinic provides necessary dental and other health care services to an impoverished mixed race community undergoing rapid social change. For over 30 years Fundacao Esperanca has been providing healthcare and education to the people of the Amazon. In an average year, the clinic's dental team performs over 26,000 procedures.
Organizations	American Jewish World Service	American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger, and disease among people of the global south regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy, and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.
Organizations	Brethren Volunter Service	BVS is a program grounded in the Christian faith that brings a spiritual dimension to advocating justice, working for peace, serving basic human needs, and maintaining the integrity of creation. Volunteers are involved in a variety of community services: education, health care, office and construction work. A college degree or equivalent life experience is required for overseas assignments. Travel expenses, room and board, medical coverage, and a monthly stipend are provided.
Organizations	Center for Envirionmental Education and Ecological Actino (CEDUAM)	CEDUAM (Environmental Education and Ecological Action Center) is a non-profit, environmental organization located in northern Tlaxcala state, in the heart of México. Much of CEDUAM's work takes place in the municipal area of Tlaxco, which has among the most deficient and depleted natural resources in the country. For more than ten years, CEDUAM has been working towards the sustainable development of rural Tlaxcala in order to promote social justice and an equitable harmony with nature.
Organizations	Christian Peacemaker Teams	CPT placeas teams of international volunteers in conflict settings as a violence reduction presence. CPT is cross denominational with strong roots grounded in the Quakers, Mennonites, and Church of the Brethren. Teams of four to twelve persons join the efforts of local peacemakers facing imminent violence. They accompany threatened individuals, report on human rights abuses, plan and execute nonviolent public responses to injustice, and train others in nonviolent direct action.
Organizations	Community Agroecology Network	CAN researchers immerse themselves in the regions where they work and study the agroecology of the local communities. They learn how the farming and social systems work on site. Through collaborative relationships, farmer groups engage in the development of the research questions. This way the findings become directly useful to community members. Our field-study opportunities, farmer-to-farmer exchanges, research, internships, and an annual shortcourseinspire action for social and environmental justice.
Organizations	CENIT (Center for the Working Girl)	CENIT, El Centro de la Niña Trabajadora, or the Center for the Working Girl as it is known in English, is a non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to helping working children (especially working girls) and their families overcome grinding poverty and improve their quality of lives through education and job training, nutrition programs, health and social services, psychological help and recreation.
Organizations	Jewish Heritage Programs (JHP)	JHP is a unique campus outreach organization that began on the University of Pennsylvania campus five years ago. The goal of JHP is to help students provide peer-to-peer based Jewish identity programming geared towards unaffiliated students. The programs are designed to inspire students to celebrate their heritage and instill a sense of identity and pride in their religion. JHP offers leadership training and mentoring opportunities with Jewish professionals from a variety of fields. Other activities include Shabbat dinners, historical programs, and holiday celebrations.