Category: youth service

• New Approaches to Youth Action

  

  Description If our goal is to engage young people in social change, there are many ways to do that. This diagram illustrates four distinct ways to engage young people: youth-driven community organizing, systemic youth involvement, situational youth voice, and service learning. It then illustrates the traditional and non-traditional approaches to doing that within these ways, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  August 11, 2013

  adult allies, afterschool, nonprofits, Schools, service learning, social change, youth activism, youth engagement, Youth involvement, youth service, Youth Voice, youth-led

  activism, adults, children, engagement, government, nonprofits, organizing, social change, social policy, volunteerism, youth

• The Freechild Project Youth Action Guide

  

  The Freechild Project Youth Action Guide is CommonAction’s latest publication. A 50-page publication created for our training promoting youth changing the world, this guide is FREE online right now! It’s packed with quick, easy reading that can help young people or adults think about how to find what needs to change, create programs to make […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  May 26, 2013

  Books, youth activism, youth leadership, youth service, Youth Voice

• Nobody Owns Volunteering

  Nonprofits searching for purpose after the ship went down… The ship’s going down and all the rats are swimming for their lives! A long time ago, back in the 1990s, the federal government decided to build the nonprofit volunteerism sector in the United States. At first this brought menial efforts from fledgling organizations that actually became […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  March 29, 2013

  community service, foundations, nonprofits, service learning, volunteer, youth service