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,Continue reading “New Approaches to Youth Action”
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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 makeContinue reading “The Freechild Project Youth Action Guide”
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 becameContinue reading “Nobody Owns Volunteering”
Adam F.C. Fletcher 