Campus Outreach Opportunity League
http://www.cool2serve.org/
Founded in 1984, the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) is a national nonprofit that helps college students start, strengthen, and expand their community service programs.

The Center for Civic Networking
http://www.civic.net/ccn.html
The Center for Civic Networking (CCN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to applying information infrastructure to the broad public good‹particularly by putting information infrastructure to work within local communities to improve delivery of local government services, improving access to information that people need in order to function as informed citizens, broadening citizen participation in governance, and stimulating economic and community development. Among the topics covered on the site are issues related to community building on the Internet and Internet access for the poor.

Civic Practices Network
http://www.cpn.org
CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the citizen participation movement.

The Community Builders Fellowship
http://www.hud.gov/cb/cbhome.html
A program of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, in partnership with Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the purpose of the Community Builders Fellowship program to educate and train individuals from diverse professions as Community Builders. As Community Builders, individuals can obtain practical, hands-on experience in community and economic development during a two-to-four year stay with HUD.

Community Networking Documents and Resources
http://www.ifla.org/II/commun.htm
This site offers links to a variety of Internet resources related to Internet access and community-building.

Community Networks: An Online Guide to Resources
http://mason.gmu.edu/~pbaker/1cnindex.html
This Web site is a compilation of references, links, and publications related to a variety of networked information infrastructures.

The Digital Divide Network
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/
There has always been a gap between those people and communities who can make effective use of information technology and those who cannot. Now, more than ever, unequal adoption of technology excludes many from reaping the fruits of the economy. At the Digital Divide Network, the digital divide is examined from many perspectives. The Web site offers a range of information, tools and resources that help practitioners stay on top of digital divide developments. It also serves as forum where practitioners can share their experiences with colleagues around the world. They examine the causes and effects of the divide from four distinct angles: technology access, literacy and learning, content, and economic development.

HandsNet
http://www.handsnet.org/
HandsNet is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues.

How to Use the Internet for Organizing
http://www.nonviolence.org/support/
Martin Kelley, of The Nonviolence Web, has compiled "How to Use the Internet for Organizing" that can be useful to almost any organization.

Idealist
http://www.idealist.org/
Idealist is a fully interactive system that enables any nonprofit or community organization- whether it has a Web site or not-to enter and update detailed information about its services, volunteer opportunities, internships, job openings, upcoming events, and any material or publication it has produced. 22,000 organizations in 150 countries are already using Idealist.

MoveOn.org
http://www.moveon.org/
MoveOn was started by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, with their family and friends. MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. Charging that the system today revolves around big money and big media, and that most citizens are left out. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. MoveOn builds electronic advocacy groups around issues such as campaign finance, environmental and energy issues, impeachment, gun safety, and nuclear disarmament. MoveOn provides information and tools to help each individual have the greatest possible impact. During impeachment of President Clinton, for example, MoveOn's grassroots advocates generated more than 250,000 phone calls and a million emails to Congress.

National Urban League
http://www.nul.org
The mission of the National Urban League is to assist African Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality. The Board of Trustees of the National Urban League and all of its affiliates reflect a diverse body of community, government, and corporate leaders. The League implements its mission through advocacy, bridge building, program services, and research.

Neighborhoods Online
http://neighborhoodsonline.net/
Neighborhoods Online was created in 1995 by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values as an online resource center for people working to build strong communities throughout the United States. Their aim is to provide fast access to information and ideas covering all aspects of neighborhood revitalization, as well as to create a national network of neighborhood activists. The site offers information related to community development, education, crime, jobs, environment, health, and human services.

NetAction Internet Resources
http://www.netaction.org/resources.html
This is a wonderful list of annotated links. Virtually everything you need to know to be a community activist using the Internet.

Nurturing Neighborhood Nets
http://web.mit.edu/techreview/www/articles/oct97/chapman.html
Interesting article about how providing free access to computer networking can extend the pleasures and benefits of the Net to people living in poor communities. Provides links to several community organization efforts utilizing Internet resources.

People-Link
http://www.People-Link.com/
People Link provides integrated communications to the progressive, socially responsible business, and organized labor communities. The site offers progressive and alternative news media, labor union sites and information, links to socially responsible businesses, information on environmental issues, left wing activities, women, gays and lesbians, people of color, and progressive arts.

Smart Communities
http://smartcommunities.ic.gc.ca/
A Smart Community is a community with a vision of the future that involves the use of information and communication technologies in new and in-novative ways to empower its residents, institutions and regions as a whole. As such, they make the most of the opportunities that new technologies afford‹better health care delivery, better education and training and new business opportunities. The site profiles several models of smart communities.

Social Contract Project
http://neighborhoodsonline.net/socialcontract.html
Through the Social Contract Project, the Institute for the Study of Civic Values has developed a new way for neighborhood activists, business leaders, and public officials to develop comprehensive plans for neighborhood improvement. These stakeholders negotiate an explicit social contract defining how they will work together to make the neighborhood is clean, safe, economically viable, and a decent place to raise children. The site details the work of the project.

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