American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF)
Betsy Brand, Director
American Youth Policy Forum actively seeks to create opportunities for communication, learning, understanding, and trust among professionals, at all levels, working on issues affecting youth. Through these endeavors, more services and life opportunities can be provided to youth.
http://www.aypf.org/ Antioch New England Institute (ANEI)
David Sobel, Director,
Teacher Certification Program Antioch New England Institute is the nonprofit consulting and community outreach arm of Antioch New England Graduate School. ANEI provides training programs and resources ( U.S. and international) in leadership development, place-based education, nonprofit management, environmental education and policy, smart growth, and public administration.
http://www.anei.org Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Diane Berreth, Deputy Executive Director ASCD is a community of educators that aims to improve learning and teaching for all students by advocating for sound policies and sharing best practices. ASCD addresses a broad range of learning and teaching issues such as professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building.
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/index.jsp/ Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.
Jack Chin, Senior Analyst Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. is a consulting firm that helps philanthropic institutions stratgeically think about ways to coordinate, compile, and utilize information to strengthen and enlarge the intended impact of their activities. Their work typically involves program design and strategic planning, evaluation, and philanthropic industry analysis.
http://blueprintrd.com/ Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools Council for Excellence in Government
David Skaggs, Executive Director
Kenneth Holdsman, Deputy Director
The Council for Excellence in Government works to improve the performance of government at all levels, to increase citizen confidence in the government, and to encourage broader civic participation. http://excelgov.org/ Center for Community School Partnerships
Ira Harkavy, Director
Cory Bowman, Associate Director
Joann Weeks, Associate Director The Center for Community Partnerships fully utilizes the University of Pennsylvania’s assets to benefit the city of Philidelphia, the university, and the community. This is achieved through programs that directly connect the university to the community, such as academically based community service. http://www.upenn.edu/ogcpa/ccp.html Chicago High School Redesign Initiative at the Chicago Community Trust
Judith Murphy, Deputy Director
The Chicago Community Trust is a community foundation focused on making the Chicago metropolitan area a great place to live, work, and raise a family. The Chicago Trust partners with organizations ranging from neighborhood socialservice agencies to nationally acclaimed museums and educational institutions to promote the wellbeing of the community.
http://cct.org/index.html Citizen Schools
Adrian Haugabrook, Executive Director of Public Policy, Alliances, and Innovation
The organization connects middle school students with adult volunteers to provide them with skills they will need to be effective leaders in the twenty-first century. This national network, which exposes students to experiential learning, promotes student acquisition of leadership skills that will help them be successful academically and become leaders in their professional lives as well as in their communities. http://citizenschools.org/index.cfm Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America
Amy Cohen, Director
Robert Davidson, Senior Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer The Corporation for National Service sees its role as engendering the culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility in America. They are agents of change and believe that every American posses the talent and capacity to give. http://www.nationalservice.org/about/programs/learnandserve.asp Earth Force
Charles Tampio, President Earth Force encourages students to take an active role in improving the environment and their communities, now and in the years to come. This is achieved by providing the necessary supports and training to educators in programs that provide students with leadership roles in community action projects. http://www.earthforce.org/ Education Alliance at Brown University
Patti Smith, Assistant Director
The Education Alliance promotes educational change with the aim of ensuring that every child has an equal oppportunity to succeed.This involves advocating for people whose access to excellent education has been impeded or denied. http://www.lab.brown.edu/ Forum for Youth Investment
Merita Irby, Deputy Director
Nicole Yohalem, Program Director
The mission of the Forum for Youth Investment is to make sure that all young Americans are ready to meet the challenges of post-secondary education, life, and work. To achieve this goal, a set of supports, opportunities, andservices must be made available so that they are able to prosper from and contribute to the community. http://forumforyouthinvestment.org/ Funders Forum on Education and theEnvironment
Jack Chin, Consultant
The Funders’ Forum on Environment and Education (F2E2) is an informal network ofgrant makers interested in environment and place-based approaches to education that contribute to positive student outcomes, academic achievement, personal development, as well asenvironmental literacy at the K–12 and postsecondary levels. The underlying assumption is that young people, duly educated and inspired, will become active participants in the life of their communities, working to solve social and environmental problems. http://www.charityadvantage.com/f2e2/AboutUs.asp Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities
Milbrey McLaughlin, Director
The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities focuses on youth development and learning. All community members need to work together to create communities that provide growth opportunities for youth so that eventually young people grow up and become community leaders. http://gardnercenter.stanford.edu/ | Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE)
Adena Klem, Research Manager
IRRE works with districts and schools to comeup with alternative ways to ensure that, as a result of their education, every student is ableto succeed in their post-secondary education as well as in their career. IRRE also provides consulting services for state education officials, foundations, and other education professionals.
http://www.irre.org/about/ Lewis and Clark College Graduate Schoolof Education
Greg Smith, Professor
The Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling affords students the opportunity to apply what they have learned to actual classroom and workplace situations through practice and internships.
http://www.lclark.edu National Academy Foundation
John Ferrandino, President The National Academy Foundation is a partnership of businesses and schools that focus on developing the skills, knowledge, and experiences young people need in order to ensure success, not only in their personal and academic lives, but also in their careers.
http://www.naf.org National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Josephine Franklin, Associate DirectorNASSP is an organization representing theperspectives of middle level and high schoolprincipals, assistant principals, and aspiringschool leaders from the United States as wellas worldwide. The mission of NASSP is to promoteexcellence in school leadership.
http://www.nassp.org/s_nassp/index.asp National Center for Learning and Citizenship Education Commission of the States
Terry Pickeral, Executive Director
The Education Commission of the States is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve public education by creating opportunities forstate policy makers and educators to share and exchange information, ideas, and experiences. http://ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/issuesK12.Asp National Education Association (NEA)
Faye Northcutt, Senior Program Coordinator
The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization and believes that every child in America, regardless of family income or place of residence, deserves a quality education. In pursuing its mission, the NEA focuses the energy and resources of its 2.7 million members on improving the quality of teaching, increasing student achievement, and making schools safer and better places to learn.
http://www.nea.org/index.html National Environment Education and Training Foundation (NEETF)
Diane Wood, ,PresidentSamantha Blodgett, Director for Education NEETF is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a stronger future through environmental education in its many forms. NEETF sees environmental education as directly related to larger societal goals such as better health, improved education, environmentally sound and profitable business, and volunteerism in local communities.
http://www.neetf.org/ National Service Learning Partnership
Nelda Brawn, Director The National Service Learning Partnership is a nationwide network of members that actively promotes service learning as an integral part of every student’s education. This initiative seeks to support a diverse group of young people who are creating lasting change in their communities.
http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/site/PageServer National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
Jim Kielsmeier, President / CEO
NYLC connects students, educators, and communities in order to re-examine the traditional roles and responsibilities of young people within American society. This empowers youth to view themselves not just as recipients of information and resources, but also as important and valued contributors.
http://nylc.org/ RMC Research Corporation
Shelley Billig, Vice President
RMC Research Corporation provides a wide range of consulting services that include research, evaluation, professional development, consulting, technical assistance, and product development services. These services are designed to help communities, schools, universities, and districts meet the needs of every student at every stage of their education.
http://www.rmcdenver.com/ Rural School and Community Trust
Rachel Tompkins, President
Doris Williams, Director of Capacity Building
James Lewicki, Rural Faculty Member
The Rural School and Community Trust believes that there is an inextricable link between good schools and thriving communities. Their mission is help rural schools and communities “get better together.”
http://ruraledu.org/ State Education and EnvironmentalRoundtable (SEER)
Gerald Lieberman, Director
SEER is a collaborative effort of sixteen state departments of education working to improve student achievements and teaching practices while providing support to schools in their effortsto meet their improvement goals by using the Environment as an Integrating Context model.
http://www.seer.org/ University of California Davis School of Education
Paul Heckman, Professor
Professor Heckman specializes in school, curriculum and community change with a focuson the educational ecology of communities. http://education.ucdavis.edu/directory/person.lasso?PersonID=0675 The Center for Information and Researchon Civic Learning and Engagement(CIRCLE)
Peter Levine, Deputy Director
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement conducts and funds research on the civic and political engagement of young Americans between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.CIRCLE is also a clearinghouse for relevant information and scholarship.
http://www.civicyouth.org/ |
