This resource page is intended to be for students, by students. If you have a useful resource to add to this page, please email John Pollock at pollock@icicp.org.
Many of these resources were found at the Campus Compact Student Resources page here.
Toolkits
ACTION: Activists’ Center for Training In Organizing & Networking -- Tools on organizing, outreach, protest, media, and research for student activists.
- Advancing Student Engagement in Communities: A Tool Kit for Effective Orientation and Evaluation -- The Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service developed this wiki, which includes collections of forms and worksheets designed for faculty/staff, students, and community co-educators.
- Campus Activism -- Tools for progressive campus activists as part of a network of websites that share information called the Activism Network.
- Campus Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice -- Information on planning meetings, starting groups, research tools, media help, and non-violent direct action.
- CGIU Tips for Students -- Ideas for how to spread the word on campus and work with university administrators.
- Democracy Matters -- Informs and engages college students and communities in efforts to strengthen democracy.
- Global Youth Service Day: Tools -- Tools and resources to plan an event for Global Youth Service Day.
- National Service-Learning Clearinghouse -- Toolkits on starting community-based service projects, training toolkits, and more.
- UNICEF Voices of Youth: Make a Difference -- Get ideas and practical advice for initiating a project, using communication tools, and evaluating your work.
- Youth Service America Tip Sheets -- Resource toolkit on creating youth-led projects, fundraising strategies, engaging volunteers, and more.
Handbooks
- The Citizens Handbook -- A handbook designed for community organizing in Vancouver, but could certainly be applied to many other types of organizing, community building, or development work.
- Investing in Social Change -- Student Handbook on Community Investment by Colleges and Universities.
- Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning across the Disciplines -- Published by Stylus Publishers, this book is intended as a self-directed guide for college-level students who are engaged in service-learning.
- TakingITGlobal's Guides to Action -- The general guide allows young people to go step-by-step from finding inspiration to evaluating a project and ensuring its sustainability. The site also features guides for taking action on HIV/AIDS, climate change, and the Millennium Development Goals.
- The Student Environmental Action Coalition Organizing Guide -- A manual for all angles of student organizing, including starting or reviving a group, group structure, effective meetings, issues, strategy, tactics, an anti-oppression analysis, a resource list and more.
Publications
- Article: How Campuses Can Create Engaged Citizens: The Student View -- Article distilling student experiences into valuable lessons on how to create a culture of engagement on campus.
- Campus Compact Publications for Students -- A selection of Campus Compact publications focusing on student civic engagement.
- Context: For Health Students -- A student-run, online, peer-reviewed journal highlighting the exceptional work of health students in the community and recognizing insightful, well-designed evaluations of student-initiated programs.
- Critique -- An online journal of critical analysis by students of politics, which welcomes submissions from undergraduate and graduate students.
- Federalism-e -- A peer-reviewed, on-line journal that publishes undergraduate student papers on the topics of federalism and multi-level governance.
- Lessons Learned on the Road to Student Civic Engagement -- Written by students for students, this slim volume summarizes lessons from Campus Compact's three-year Raise Your Voice campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students to engage in service and civic action.
Grants/Opportunities
- Community Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant -- Grants are offered by the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation to students whose proposals represent the most innovative ways to serve the community associated with their academic discipline. Eligible countries are the US, UK, South Africa, Germany, and India.
- DoSomething.org -- A US-based organization offering various small grants and awards for youth civic engagement.
- The Foundation Center -- A US-based organization with excellent resources on finding potential funders and writing grant proposals and budgets.
- Grants -- Grant and Fellowship Listings for students/recent graduates.
- How To Get A Job in the Nonprofit Sector -- A guide for college students seeking employment opportunities in the nonprofit fields.
- Jenzabar Foundation -- A US-based foundation that offers $5000 Student Leadership Awards recognizing ten student-led campus groups and projects that have made a significant contribution to better the world outside of their institutions of higher education.
- TakingITGlobal's Financial Opportunities -- Search for awards, contests, grants, and scholarships.
- The Grantsmanship Center's Funding Sources List -- View lists of foundations active internationally and state-by-state in the U.S.
Online Communities
- Idealist (Action Without Borders) -- Connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
- Students for Humanity -- An online community of students who post relevant news articles, share stories, and find ways to collaborate on civic engagement projects.
- Taking ITGlobal -- An online social network hosting discussions on global issues and fostering cross-cultural dialogue.
- Talloires 24 Student Discussion Series -- The Talloires Network hosts a monthly discussion designed for students interested in civic engagement. Topics include strategic planning, marketing, and fundraising.
