young volunteers in social service

Features thirty-six event ideas and provides checklists, recipes, crafts, and activities to help young people plan philanthropic parties.

Provides strategies and methods for different ways to help others, including activism, volunteering and community service, and fundraising, and includes real-life stories of girls who have successfully used these methods.

Offers students information about school volunteering, discussing getting involved, teamwork, group identity, fundraising, and school spirit, and including related activities.

Explores ways that young people can help others, and gives examples of things other kids have done.

Contains information and activities designed to help young people in grades six and up find ways to address the needs of animals in their communities and around the world.

Provides information about hunger and homelessness to students in grades six and up, looks at what young people are doing to fight the problems, offers advice on how kids can become involved in efforts to combat hunger and homelessness in their communities, and includes examples.

Robyn is reluctant to work at the local homeless shelter, but as she begins to dig into a mystery surrounding one of the homeless men who comes there, she becomes determined to stick with the job, even as her work puts her in danger.

Tells the story of Ashley Shuyler, a young woman who was so impressed by the people of Tanzania when she traveled there with her family at the age of eleven, that she founded AfricAid, a nonprofit organization that raises money to help Tanzanian children, especially girls, get an education.