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Service Organizations

• Campus Compact
• Center for Inspired Teaching -- "renewing education by changing what happens in school. We train teachers to inspire young people to become knowledgeable, self-disciplined, and compassionate citizens. Students of Inspired Teachers learn to think and solve complex problems in school and in real life, and actively strive to make positive change in their communities and in society."
• Digital History -- "using new technologies to enhance teaching and research."
• Facing History and Ourselves -- based on the belief that education in a democracy must be what Alexis de Tocqueville called "an apprenticeship in liberty." Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making.
• Education and Democracy -- "provides analysis and curriculum materials that can help community-based movements implement democratic goals in our public schools."
• National Parent Information Network -- "Educational software and services for middle school, high school, and college students. Creative, innovative and interactive products that empower students of all ages."
• Raise Your Voice
• School for Autistic Strength Purpose and Independence in Education (ASPIE) -- innovative program that conducts an annual national conference.
• The Democracy Collaborative -- "to catalyze and dramatize a powerful vision of what can be done, and the power that might be unleashed, when the university – one of the most important institutions in every society – works with renewed commitment hand-in-hand with engaged citizens. For this vision to be realized, the work of the Collaborative depends on developing and helping further a conception of the university that regards itself as a resource not only for its faculty and students but for the local, national, and global communities that constitute its civic environment."

Service Organizations: Schools and Programs

• Antioch University
• Association of Waldorf Schools of North America -- "an association of independent Walforf schools and Walforf teacher education institutes ... to strengthen and support the schools and to inform the public about the benefits of Waldorf education."
• Barre Center for Buddhist Studies -- "a non-profit educational organization dedicated to bringing together teachers, students, scholars and practitioners who are committed to exploring Buddhist thought and practice as a living tradition, faithful to its origins and lineage, yet adaptable and alive in the current world. The center’s purpose is to encourage the integration of study and practice, and to investigate the relationship between scholarly understanding and meditative insight. It encourages engagement with the tradition in a spirit of genuine inquiry.
• California Institute of Integral Studies -- "an engaged-and engaging-community of people committed to transforming themselves and the world ... pursue an education that connects the spiritual and practical dimensions of intellectual life, in a stimulating environment that fosters rigorous scholarship and supportive community."
• Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania -- "Penn’s primary vehicle for bringing to bear the broad range of human knowledge needed to solve the complex, comprehensive, and interconnected problems of the American city... The Center works to achieve the following objectives: Improve the internal coordination and collaboration of all university-wide community service programs; Create new and effective partnerships between the University and the community; Create and strengthen local, national and international networks of institutions of higher education committed to engagement with their local communities."
• Fielding Graduate Institute -- "prepares its students to serve as reflective professionals through its innovative doctoral and master’s programs, collaborative learning model, and continuing professional education. We support professional and personal transformation through a learning model which integrates theory, research, and values with high integrity practice and scholarship."
• Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies -- "prepares men and women to solve some of society’s most complex problems – issues in the economy, public finance, the environment, education, family well being, health care, welfare reform, international relations."
• Institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University -- "an academic resource center that is building a new intellectual tradition upon the rich legacy of Harlem's history, ... administers the Undergraduate and Master's degree programs in African-American Studies."
• Naropa University -- "offer educational programs that cultivate awareness of the present moment through intellectual, artistic, and meditative disciplines; foster a learning community (composed of students, faculty, staff, trustees, and alumni) that uncovers wisdom and heart; cultivate openness and communication, sharpen critical intellect, enhance resourcefulness, and develop effective action in all disciplines; exemplify the principles grounded in Naropa University's Buddhist educational heritage; encourage the integration of world wisdom traditions with modern culture; be nonsectarian and open to all."
• New College of California -- "Offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees whose mission is to integrate education with personal transformation and social change for creation of a just, sacred and sustainable world."
• Pacifica Graduate Institute -- "to provide graduate degree programs and to foster research in the fields of psychology and mythological studies framed in the traditions of depth psychology."
• Presidio World College -- "an affiliate of Alliant International University, offers a distinctive, leading-edge MBA in Sustainable Management ... integrates environmental, ethical and social values with practical business skills."
• Professional Development Foundation -- "developing networks of professionals who come together to assist each other’s development and through this contribute to the re-construction of organisations and the professions ... a network for supported reflective practice for professional development and to challenge the development agenda of the professions."
• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center -- "developing and applying knowledge that frees and transforms the human spirit, and develops leaders, who work for the creation of a just, compassionate, meaning-rich and sustainable future."

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