Links and Resources
Donald A. Strauss Foundation
Encouraging young leaders to pursue lives and work of public service and social change through Strauss scholarships awarded to California college juniors for high-impact projects undertaken in their senior year.
Act for Armenia
Act For Armenia (formerly Fast For Armenia) aims to secure a brighter tomorrow for Armenia by educating the youth of today. Proceeds are used to empower schoolchildren in Armenia's border villages with textbooks, maps, supplies and other learning tools, in addition to funding critical school improvements.
Clinton Global Initiative
The mission of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is to inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
Paros Foundation
The Paros Foundation's goal is to develop high quality high integrity non-governmental organizations in Armenia by significantly upgrading their working environment, providing guidance and needed resources. This includes providing inspiring office space, free of charge, to three of the six organizations we work with in Armenia.
Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU)
The purpose of AGBU is to preserve and promote the Armenian identity and heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs.
Birthright Armenia
Birthright Armenia envisions a powerful, broad-based network of organizations and individuals committed to making service to and experiences in Armenia an essential rite of passage afforded to all young Armenians across the world.
Manana Youth Center
The "Manana" Youth Educational Cultural Center seeks to create the optimum environment for the overall spiritual, intellectual and physical development of children, building on their foundations for happy, healthy and safe lives.
World Vision: Sponsor a Child
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
DonorsChoose.org
An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need.
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
The School Fund
The School Fund wants to help build a world where any student, no matter where they are born, has the opportunity to attend school and any school, no matter where it is built, has the opportunity to offer students a full range of engaging learning experiences.
A1+ News
National Center of Educational Technologies (NCET)
The NCET mission is to develop contemporary educational environment in Armenia and introduce information and communication technologies in general schools in Armenia and ensure their further availability.
Click here for more information on their work in Akhpradzor.
Armenian Educational Portal
Click here for more information.
Armenian Women For Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
The mission of AWHHE is to explore the issue of environment pollution in Armenia, to advocate the human right to live in healthy environment, to promote the decrease of the risks of environmental harmful impacts, including climate change, on human health, as well to promote healthy lifestyle focusing especially on children and women. Particularly the concern for health and safety of children and future generation is an important motivation for women to become catalysts of a change.
USAID/Armenia
USAID’s goal is to assist Armenia in achieving sustainable development through increased competitiveness, higher quality social services and a more empowered civil society. The strategic approach to realizing this vision is based on the principles of empowering agents of change, increasing Armenian society’s access to information and networks, and maximizing opportunities for alliances with development partners.
UCSB COMMUNITY AFFAIRS BOARD (CAB)
The AS/UCSB Community Affairs Board (CAB), UCSB's Volunteer Action Center, is dedicated to enhancing the educational experience of all UCSB Students by providing information and easy access to community service work. Through a wide range of projects and community programs, CAB seeks to augment classroom experiences, create opportunities for career exploration, connect UCSB to the community in a meaningful way, and promote the ethics of public service.
Encouraging young leaders to pursue lives and work of public service and social change through Strauss scholarships awarded to California college juniors for high-impact projects undertaken in their senior year.
Act for Armenia
Act For Armenia (formerly Fast For Armenia) aims to secure a brighter tomorrow for Armenia by educating the youth of today. Proceeds are used to empower schoolchildren in Armenia's border villages with textbooks, maps, supplies and other learning tools, in addition to funding critical school improvements.
Clinton Global Initiative
The mission of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is to inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
Paros Foundation
The Paros Foundation's goal is to develop high quality high integrity non-governmental organizations in Armenia by significantly upgrading their working environment, providing guidance and needed resources. This includes providing inspiring office space, free of charge, to three of the six organizations we work with in Armenia.
Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU)
The purpose of AGBU is to preserve and promote the Armenian identity and heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs.
Birthright Armenia
Birthright Armenia envisions a powerful, broad-based network of organizations and individuals committed to making service to and experiences in Armenia an essential rite of passage afforded to all young Armenians across the world.
Manana Youth Center
The "Manana" Youth Educational Cultural Center seeks to create the optimum environment for the overall spiritual, intellectual and physical development of children, building on their foundations for happy, healthy and safe lives.
World Vision: Sponsor a Child
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
DonorsChoose.org
An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need.
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
The School Fund
The School Fund wants to help build a world where any student, no matter where they are born, has the opportunity to attend school and any school, no matter where it is built, has the opportunity to offer students a full range of engaging learning experiences.
A1+ News
National Center of Educational Technologies (NCET)
The NCET mission is to develop contemporary educational environment in Armenia and introduce information and communication technologies in general schools in Armenia and ensure their further availability.
Click here for more information on their work in Akhpradzor.
Armenian Educational Portal
Click here for more information.
Armenian Women For Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
The mission of AWHHE is to explore the issue of environment pollution in Armenia, to advocate the human right to live in healthy environment, to promote the decrease of the risks of environmental harmful impacts, including climate change, on human health, as well to promote healthy lifestyle focusing especially on children and women. Particularly the concern for health and safety of children and future generation is an important motivation for women to become catalysts of a change.
USAID/Armenia
USAID’s goal is to assist Armenia in achieving sustainable development through increased competitiveness, higher quality social services and a more empowered civil society. The strategic approach to realizing this vision is based on the principles of empowering agents of change, increasing Armenian society’s access to information and networks, and maximizing opportunities for alliances with development partners.
UCSB COMMUNITY AFFAIRS BOARD (CAB)
The AS/UCSB Community Affairs Board (CAB), UCSB's Volunteer Action Center, is dedicated to enhancing the educational experience of all UCSB Students by providing information and easy access to community service work. Through a wide range of projects and community programs, CAB seeks to augment classroom experiences, create opportunities for career exploration, connect UCSB to the community in a meaningful way, and promote the ethics of public service.
