GSC Resources

GSC Resource Library

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Type	Title
Organizations	Association for Progressive Communications	APC’s mission is to empower and support organizations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to build strategic communities and initiatives for the purpose of making meaningful contributions to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability.
Organizations	Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs	The Belfer Center is the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.
Organizations	CDS International	The Internship Program in Argentina provides an excellent opportunity for American and Canadian students and young professionals to gain international work experience abroad, improve their Spanish language skills, and experience Argentinean culture firsthand. Participants on this program complete unpaid internships in companies or organizations in Buenos Aires or Cordoba.
Organizations	Bread for the World	Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our America's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, they provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities in which we live.
Organizations	Americans for Informed Democracy (AID)	Americans for Informed Democracy empowers young people in the United States to address global challenges such as poverty, disease, climate change, and conflict through awareness and action. AID promotes just and sustainable solutions at the campus, community, and national level. Their vision is to have every American young person be empowered to effectively contribute to peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable solutions to the world's greatest challenges. AID works with young people, particularly students, to promote an interconnected world through awareness, advocacy, and action.
Organizations	American Planning Association International Division	Global Planners Network (GPN) is a network of national planning associations, including APA, that came together to share planning ideas, approaches, and good practices and thereby build the capacities for planning across the globe.
Organizations	American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)	AKIN is a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to informing the public and policy makers of the plight of the Kurds, the world's largest stateless people. AKIN works with the members of the U.S. government and the NGO community in an effort to promote self-determination, peace and justice in Kurdistan. Interns play a large role in the overall activity of AKIN and are relied upon heavily.
Organizations	American Friends Service Committee	The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice and it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love and the divine.
Organizations	Academy for Educational Development International Projects Division	AED works globally to improve education, health, civil society and economic development--the foundation of thriving societies.
Organizations	ACCION International	ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing “micro” loans, business training and other financial services to poor men and women who start their own businesses, ACCION helps people work their way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride.
Organizations	Action Without Borders/Idealist.org	Idealist is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 with offices in the United States and Argentina. Idealist is an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.
Organizations	African Studies Program	The African Studies Program strives to be a leading program for the interdisciplinary study of Africa at the University of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. program promotes greater understanding and appreciation of the African continent through research, teaching, and outreach activities to schools and to surrounding greater Pittsburgh communities.
Organizations	Agricultural Cooperative Development International	ACDI/VOCA is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes broad-based economic growth and the development of civil society in emerging democracies and developing countries. Offering a comprehensive range of technical assistance services, ACDI/VOCA addresses the most pressing and intractable development problems.
Organizations	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a private, nonpartisaninstitution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare. Founded in 1943, AEI is home to some of America's most accomplished public policy experts--from economics, law, political science, defense and foreign policy studies, ethics, theology, health care, and other fields.
Organizations	American Field Service International	AFS (formerly the American Field Service) is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in more than 40 countries around the world through independent, nonprofit AFS Organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board.