GSC Resources
GSC Resource Library
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| Type | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Organizations | Women's Campaign Forum |
The Women’s Campaign Fund, a nonpartisan organization, is dedicated to dramatically increasing the number of women in elected office who support reproductive health choices for all. |
| Organizations | Women Thrive Worldwide |
Women Thrive Worldwide advocates for change at the U.S. and global levels so that women and men can share equally in the enjoyment of opportunities, economic prosperity, voice, and freedom from fear and violence. |
| Organizations | Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network |
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. |
| Organizations | Women in International Security |
WIIS is dedicated to increasing the influence of women in the field of foreign and defense affairs and enhancing the dialogue on international security. WIIS offers a comprehensive set of programs designed to foster and promote women in all fields related to international security. WIIS has more than 1400 members in forty seven countries from all fields. |
| Organizations | Nature Conservancy |
The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. The mission of the Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of live on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Nature Conservancy works in all fifty states and over thirty countries. |
| Organizations | InterAction |
InterAction is the largest alliance of US based international development and humanitarian NGOs. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, it works to overcome poverty, exclusion, and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all. |
| Organizations | Food First |
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change. |
| Organizations | African Impact |
African Impact facilitates a wide variety of volunteer projects with the goal of assisting conservation initiatives and local communities, while providing a life-changing experience for international volunteers. AI works hard to build strong relationships with local authorities. Projects range throughout southern and eastern Africa. |
| Organizations | Appalachian Mountain Club |
AMC's projects focus on the construction of new trails in Acadia National Park, Maine; a canoe portage trail in Baxter State Park, Maine, bog bridge construction in New Hampshire's White mountains, and reconstruction of Appalachian Trail in western Massachusetts. Volunteers build, maintain and repair trails. |
| Organizations | ADCI/VOCA |
ACDI/VOCA promotes economic opportunities for cooperatives, businesses, and communities through the innovative application of sound business practices. Typical volunteers are mid to late-career professionals with significant experience who provide expertise to host organizations in economically developing countries. |
| Organizations | Aang Serian |
Aang Serian is an NGO based in Tanzania whose principal mission is to develop cross-cultural curricula for rural schools. Aang Serian emphasizes elements of indigenous culture that enhance self respect to adapt traditional skills to empower people and help them eliminate poverty. |
| Organizations | Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development (AHEAD) |
AHEAD was founded in 1981, to provide hands-on, people-to-people assistance and partnerships with rural catastrophically distressed communities to combat malnutrition, disease, extreme poverty, technological deprivation and other conditions that have an adverse impact on the health and welfare of people. AHEAD combats malnutrition, disease and poverty through people-to-people exchanges and support of grassroots initiatives. |
| Organizations | Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) |
Bikes Not Bombs promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction. For 25 years, BNB has been a nexus of bike recycling and community empowerment both in lower income neighborhoods of Boston and in the nations of the Global South. BNB's programs involve young people and adults in mutually respectful leadership development and environmental stewardship, while recycling thousands of bicycles. |
| Organizations | Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) |
CRISPAZ is a faith-based organization dedicated to building bridges of solidarity between the Church of the poor and marginalized communities in El Salvador and communities in the US and other countries through mutual accompaniment, striving together for peace, justice, sustainability, and human liberation. |
| Organizations | ESPWA |
ESPWA has welcomed volunteers since 1996 to assist in the endeavors of organizations working for sustainable communities. ESPWA's current focus is on organic agriculture and assistance to small organic farmers. Volunteers are usually headquartered in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Projects generally last from one to three weeks for short term stays. Longer term projects also available. |
