Community Service Organizations

CHCI’s leadership development curriculum incorporates the latest developments in leadership training strategies based on service learning and cooperative leadership models.  While CHCI does not impose a particular definition of leadership, we do associate it with service, and our program participants are required to serve the local Washington, DC community, as a group, during their program – through participation in a Community Service Project.  We train our program participants to work cooperatively and rely on each other’s strengths to achieve the greater public good. 

The same holds true for our community at large.  We must challenge ourselves to come together and serve.  Toward that end, CHCI has put together a listing of organizational web sites dedicated to community service and/or to organizing communities to do the same in a variety of different areas.  By bringing together individuals who share a commitment to serve their communities, CHCI endeavors to make its vision of an educated and civic-minded Latino community a reality.

List of community service organizations below:

America’s Promise  
http://www.americaspromise.org
The goal of America's Promise is to mobilize people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth by fulfilling Five Promises for young people:

1. Ongoing relationships with caring adults in their lives - parents, mentors, tutors, or coaches;

2. Safe places with structured activities during non-school hours;

3. Healthy start and future;

4. Marketable skills through effective education; and

5. Opportunities to give back through community service.

Corporation for National and Community Service  
http://www.cns.gov
The Corporation for National and Community Service engages Americans of all ages in service to help strengthen communities.

Points of Light Foundation  
http://www.pointsoflight.org
The Foundation's mission is to engage more people more effectively in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems. 

SERVEnet  
http://www.servenet.org
SERVEnet.org is the premier website on service and volunteering. Through SERVEnet, users can enter their zip code, city, state, skills, interests, and availability and be matched with organizations needing help.  

USA Freedom Corps  
http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov
You can use this web site to find service opportunities that interest you. It is designed so that Americans of all ages and backgrounds who are looking to serve their community, our country and the world can find a way to get involved by using the most comprehensive network of service organizations ever assembled.

Youth Service America (YSA)  
http://www.ysa.org
YSA is a resource center and premier alliance of 300+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young Americans to serve locally, nationally, or globally.  Founded in 1986, YSA's mission is to strengthen the effectiveness, sustainability, and scale of the youth service and service-learning fields. YSA envisions a powerful network of organizations committed to making service the common expectation and experience of all young Americans. A strong youth service network will create healthy communities, and foster citizenship, knowledge, and the personal development of young people.