- http://www.connectforkids.org/ - Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults—parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others—who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind. This is the only children's club/organization search engine you'll ever need.
- More links about Kids in our alternate directory
- http://www.bsa.scouting.org/ - The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America, incorporated on February 8, 1910, and chartered by Congress in 1916, is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness.
- http://www.gsusa.org/ - Girl Scouts is the world's pre-eminent organization dedicated soley to girls. Working together with committed adults, they help girls grow strong in body, mind and spirit-and have fun!
- http://www.bgca.org/ - In every community, boys and girls are left to find their own recreation and companionship in the streets. An increasing number of children are at home with no adult care or supervision. Young people need to know that someone cares about them. Boys & Girls Clubs offer that and more. Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence. Boys & Girls Clubs are a safe place to learn and grow -- all while having fun. It is truly The Positive Place For Kids.
- http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/ - National 4-H Council's mission is to advance the 4-H youth development movement to build a world in which youth and adults learn, grow and work together as catalysts for positive change. Council partners with 4-H at all levels—national, state and local.
- http://www.kiwanis.org/ - The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.
* To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
* To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
* To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
* To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
* To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
* To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
- http://www.dare.com/ - Since its early beginnings, D.A.R.E. has always taken the anti-drug, anti-violence message to the streets. Now D.A.R.E. has taken this powerful message to the biggest street in the world, the Information Superhighway.
- http://www.ymca.net/ - Together, the nation’s 2,400 YMCAs are the largest not-for-profit community service organizations in America, working to meet the health and social service needs of 17.5 million men, women and children in 10,000 communities. Ys are for people of all faiths, races, abilities, ages and incomes. No one is turned away for inability to pay. YMCAs’ strength is in the people they bring together. YMCA Mission: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
- http://www.campfire.org/ - Camp Fire Boys and Girls celebrates its 90th anniversary this year with a mission of building, caring, confident youth and future leaders. As a not-for-profit, youth development organization, Camp Fire provides fun, coeducational programs for approximately 650,000 youth from birth to age 21. Camp Fire helps boys and girls learn and play side by side in comfortable, informal settings. Their co-ed programs allow parents to consolidate schedules for both their daughters and sons.
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