America’s Promise Alliance
Founded in 1997 with General Colin Powell as Chairman and chaired today by Alma Powell, America’s Promise Alliance is a cross-sector partnership of more than 300 corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and advocacy groups that are passionate about improving lives and changing outcomes for children. The Aliance’s work involves raising awareness, encouraging action and engaging in advocacy to provide children the Five Promises: Caring adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, An Effective Education and Opportunities to Help Others.Afterschool Alliance
The nation's leading voice for afterschool, the Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. The Afterschool Alliance works with the Administration, the U.S. Congress, governors, mayors and advocates across the country. Today the Afterschool Alliance boasts more than 25,000 afterschool program partners and its publications reach more than 65,000 interested individuals every month.Center for Creative Learning
The Center for Creative Learning (CCL) offers a variety of publications, training programs, information support, and consulting services on creativity, Creative Problem Solving, talent development, and learning styles. The CCL believes that all people have strengths and talents that are important to recognize, develop, and use throughout life. The CCL’s work builds on more than five decades of research, development, and practical experience in organizations.Global Entrepreneurship Week
For one week each November, Global Entrepreneurship Week connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others participate in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings.mae
Indie rock band mae joins Destination ImagiNation in promoting projectOUTREACH-our service learning Challenge dedicated to bringing about change within a community through music. DI is one of many organizations mae has partnered with to help elevate social responsibility among their fans as part of their goal of making the work a better place. Visit mae online a www.whatismae.comNational Learn and Serve Challenge
The 2009 National Learn & Serve Challenge is a sustained, focused effort to promote youth civic engagement and service-learning. In the Challenge, young people will help rebuild and renew their local or global community by using service-learning to create and implement innovative solutions to problems within five priority areas: community renewal, including responding to the economic crisis; education, including literacy and keeping kids in school; energy and the environment; health and nutrition; and safety and security.REACH
The Capital Area REACH Program is committed to helping young people in the Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, metropolitan area become successful in school, work and the community.REACH partners include local employers, businesses, community volunteers and faith-based organizations. REACH partners with Destination ImagiNation to develop a job training curriculum that will teach students how to succeed in work and the community.
Scholar Search Associates
Scholar Search Associates brings together articles, information and resources for independent schools and programs for the motivated student. Visit www.scholarsearchassoc.com to locate an independent school in your area and learn more about alternates to learning.SyFy
Visions for Tomorrow (www.VisionsforTomorrow.net) brings together leaders in science, technology, art, architecture, education and policy to champion a fresh and hopeful outlook on the future and to advance the idea that individuals can affect significant and positive change.Recognizing the rapid pace at which yesterday's science fiction is becoming today's and tomorrow's science fact, Syfy (formerly SiFi Channel) has launched a new public affairs initiative, Visions for Tomorrow, to inspire individuals, organizations, corporations and policymakers to meet the growing challenges of the future.
