Center for Community Change
The Center for Community Change is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities. To do this, we help people to develop the skills and resources they need to improve their communities as well as change policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. We believe that poor people themselves -- through organizations they control -- need to lead efforts to eliminate poverty. The Center for Community Change helps grassroots leaders build strong organizations that bring people together to become a force for change in their communities.

Center for Environmental Citizenship
This is as comprehensive a environmental action/information site for students can get. It includes student news features, toolkits and information essential for campus organizing as well as a place to sign up for EarthNet, a weekly listserve full of information about jobs, events, resources and action alerts.

CoMotion
CoMotion is about learning to tackle a problem in your community through action and mobilization. CoMotion works to build youth activism by providing training and technical assistance to youth led efforts on the issue of gun violence across the country. If you want to stop gun violence in your school or community, call CoMotion at (202) 822-6070.

EcoPledge
When job hunting, I will check the campaign web site www.dirtyjobs.org to find the current Dirty Jobs Boycott targets and what they can do to help the environment.

Free Speech T.V.
This site has a wide selection of independently produced video and audio projects.

Global Youth Action Network
Website for the Global Youth Action Network, an international collaboration among youth and youth-serving organizations to share info, resources and solutions. Also, the website for Youth in Action, the US network of GYAN. GYAN, 211 E. 43rd Street. Ste. 905, New York, NY 10017; (212) 661-6111, fax (212) 661-1933; gyan@youthlink.org.

High School Journalism
This site, created by the American Society for Newspaper Editors, includes information on journalism contests, reources, college suggestions and interviews with youth journalists.

Ideafund
Ideafund aims to be a haven for those with social action ideas. It will connect innovative ideas with the mentors, knowledge, partnerships, and funding to transform them into actionable plans.

Jewish Fund for Justice Funder's Collaboraitve on Youth Organizing
The Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a collective of national, regional and local grantmakers dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social justice. Our mission is to substantially increase philanthropic investment in and strengthen the organizational capacities of youth organizing groups across the country.

LegalKids.com
This is the site started by Clayton Giles fourteen year old who started Legal Kids to give children of divorce, like himslef, a place to interact. Giles' hunger strike -- an effort to have a voice about his father's custody rights -- has received much media attention. Check out his site and hear his own voice -- to go beyond the hype.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)'s College Activist.com
Although this site is very specific in its focus on animal rights-related activism, its' Guide to College Activism page has a detailed description of the process one can follow to start an activist organazation on campus-everything from tips on running meetings, to researching the facts to speaking publicly. It's well put together and can be applied to activism around almost any issue. Check it out!

Protest.net
"Protest.Net is a collective of activists who are working together to create our own media. By publishing a public record of our political activities on the web we are taking a stand against the established media. We are standing up and showing that serious activism is alive and well at the dawn of the 21st century."

Refuse and Resist
Activism resources and calendar.

The Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.

SouthWest Organizing Project
SWOP is a statewide multi-racial, multi-issue, community based membership organization. Since 1980 they have worked to make it possible for thousands of New Mexicans to begin to have a place and voice in social, economic and environmental decisions that affect their lives. Their mission is "working to empower our communities to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice."

Teen/Slant
"The goal of Teen/Slant is to offer a haven for teens who care about real issues and want to make a difference in the world." produced by two Los Angeles Teens, This site is filled with youth perspectives.

Urban Think Tank
Urban Think Tank uses scholarly activism to give voice to members of the Hip-Hop generation and influence public policy by providing a forum for discussion of Hip-Hop music, culture and politics.

Youth Activism
Youth Activism looks to provide youth with advice so they can transform their ideas into practical proposals and develop strategies for gaining the attention, convinces community andgovernment leaders that young people must no longer be shut out of the decision-making process and urges organizations and institutions to take seriously the ideas and solutions offered by the next generation, promotes youth infusion on advisory councils, citizen task forces, adult coalitions, school boards, etc. and assists public and non-profit agencies on working as partners with young people from diverse backgrounds.

Whispered Media
Whispered Media was a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools, in progressive grassroots movements.

Women's Guerrilla History Project
They've come up with probably the best way to raise awareness of significant acheivements by women. They create posters of women and plaster them all over cities. Help celebrate women's accomplishments! Start a chapter in your city.