List of 23 items.

• AFS Intercultural Programs (V,T)

  Under Programs and Countries look into the AFS Community Service Program. For those 18 years of age or older, the AFS Community Service Program offers placements of four months to a year in more than 20 countries. The placements are with community services organizations.

• Americorps (E)

  Americorps members address community needs in four areas: education, public safety, human services, and the environment. Americorps members earn a stipend, receive health insurance, and at the end of their service a financial award currently set at up to $4,725 to be used for further education. Americorps applicants can choose from nearly 1,000 local and national groups with whom they would like to complete their service.

• Amigos de las Americas (T,V)

  Amigos places high school and college-age youth in community health projects throughout Latin America. The projects take place during the summer. Participants must have had two years or the equivalent of high school Spanish or Portuguese and have participated in the Amigos training program usually done through the local Amigos Chapter. There is one in Boston.

• City Year (E)

  City Year operates in locations around the country such as Boston, Providence, South Carolina, California, Texas, etc. As an Americorps member, it offers the benefits mentioned above to its participants.

• Council on International Educational Exchange (E, I, T)

  CIEE helps you to find internships, jobs, homestays, educational opportunities, language programs, etc. around the world.

• Earthwatch (O,T,V)

  Earthwatch offers many short term expeditions to various parts of the world. All Earthwatch expeditions promote sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships between scientists, educators, and the general public.

• Global Quest (T)

  Global Quest offers programs in Thailand and Ecuador.

• Global Routes (T,I)

  Global Routes places high school and college-age students in community service internships in Belize, China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, India, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, and Thailand.

• Global Volunteers (T,V)

  Global Volunteers offers one, two, or three-week service-learning opportunities around the world. GV goes back to the same places year after year and multiple times in the same year. So if you want to stay longer in a place it may be possible to go over with one group and return home with another.

• Habitat for Humanity International (E, V)

  Habitat for Humanity has built thousands of homes around the world since its founding in 1976. With an estimated 1.5 billion people lacking decent shelter there's a lot left to do.

• Idealist (V, I, E, T)

  Idealist is the most comprehensive directory of nonprofit and volunteer resources on the web. Over 71,000 organizations in 140 countries are in their database. You can search by organization name, location, or mission. You can find paid and unpaid positions on a state by state basis by doing a general search or you can specify the kind of work you are interested in such as the arts, children and youth, community service, the environment, health, housing and homelessness, media, poverty and hunger, and many other areas.

• National Outdoor Leadership School (O)

  NOLS teaches outdoor skills and leadership in courses lasting 10 days to a full semester in wilderness areas all over the world.

• Outward Bound (O)

  OB offers adventure/outdoor education programs throughout the U.S. as well as in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The programs range from the ocean to the desert and the mountains.

• School for Field Studies (O, T)

  SFS offers summer programs and semester programs in Australia, British Columbia, Baja Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, and Costa Rica. These programs focus on environmental issues with a direct connection between learning and doing. High school students, recent high school graduates, and college students are accepted into the summer programs. Semester programs usually require a college-level science class and a semester of college as a prerequisite.

• SCI-International Voluntary Service (V, T)

  Founded after World War I in Europe as an alternative to military service SCI-IVS believes when groups of people from different countries are living and working together on a grassroots community service project barriers between them will decrease and international understanding increase. Short term work camps, medium-length volunteer positions (3 months), and longer-term opportunities are available primarily in North America and Europe.

• Sea Education Association (O, T)

  The Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA, offers an 8 week Summer Session welcomes applications from high school students and recent graduates.

• Student Conservation Association (O,E, V)

  SCA offers volunteer, internship, and job opportunities. The work is in the outdoors, with nature, the environment, and conservation issues. Program opportunities can last for a month, a season, or up to a year.

• Student Partnership Worldwide (V,T)

  Based in England SPW annually recruits 500 young people between the ages of 18 and 28 from the developed and developing world to work in Africa and Asia in environmental and education programs.

• Study Abroad (T, I)

  Study Abroad encompasses internships, cultural, linguistic, and educational programs.

• Volunteers for Peace (V, T)

  VFP is a member of the Coordinating Committee for Intentional Voluntary Service at UNESCO. Through VFP's searchable database you can identify 1800 short term intercultural service adventures in 70 countries.

• Where There Be Dragons (V, T)

  Old maps drew dragons in the areas beyond the known world. For most westerners Asia is unknown. WTBD offers programs in many Asian countries.

• World Learning (T)

  World Learning operates several programs around the world covering education, training, study abroad, international exchange, and international development.

• Young Judaea (T)

  Young Judaea's year course in Israel places recent high school graduates in Jerusalem, on a kibbutz, in a development town, in an environmental field school, on an army base, etc. with academic studies, hikes, through the countryside, leadership training seminars, etc.