Looking for Opportunities to Volunteer in Your Community?
VISIONS may be your first encounter with community service, or it may be one of many in a long history of service. Either way, we are confident that your experience with VISIONS will change your life – and your relationship with community service. We encourage you to continue this relationship once you get home. There are wonderful organizations everywhere that offer year round service opportunities in your home community.
The following are a few organizations that can help you get involved with opportunities that work for you.
SERVEnet - www.servenet.org
SERVEnet is a program of Youth Service America and specializes in providing volunteer opportunities for high school and college students all over the country.
Idealist - www.idealist.org
Browse volunteer organizations and opportunities from all over the world, or check out non-profit job and internship opportunities.
VolunteerMatch - www.volunteermatch.org
A search engine that matches thousands of volunteers with non-profits according to interest, location and schedule.
There are many excellent experiences out there from which to choose, and we cannot list them all here. Here are programs, different from VISIONS, that we unabashedly favor because of long association and friendship with the directors and the program, and because we are assured of the quality experiences they offer.
ProWorld Service Corps - www.proworldsc.org
2 to 26-week cultural, service, and academic experiences for high school graduates and college students in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Peruvian Amazon, the Caribbean coast of Belize, Mexico, India and Thailand.
Longé Dominica - www.longedominica.com
An organization established to increase tangible resources in the Carib Territory in Dominica by "connecting individuals through collaborative living, community development and conversation." Longé offers Gap Year and Summer Semester programs, and customized experiences.
Kindred Spirits Tour and Travel - www.kindredspiritstourandtravel.com
Specializing in small unique tours, customized packages, and service programs that provide the opportunity to enjoy life-changing experiences around the world.
Longacre Leadership - www.longacre.com
Teen leadership program on 300 acre farm in PA, since 1975. Longacre offers both four and six week summer sessions to a limited total of 72 participants, 12 through 18.
Longacre Expeditions - www.longacreexpeditions.com
Since 1981, adventure programs for teens across North America. More than just a teen summer camp, we offer excitement, challenge, and friendship in our wilderness adventures.
Summer Search - www.summersearch.org
The mission of Summer Search is to identify low-income high school youth who demonstrate resiliency in overcoming hardship and the desire to help others. Nurturing those qualities over time in students who have often been neglected allows them to become empowered future everyday leaders. Our ambitious mission is accomplished through a program that combines full scholarships to summer experiential education programs with intensive long-term mentoring.
Rotary Club Youth Exchange - www.rotary.org/programs
Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures through extended stays of up to a year living with host families. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
Career Explorations - www.ceinternships.com
Career Explorations presents a unique opportunity for high school students to sample the professional world through hands-on, month long internships in New York City.