Environmentalism

Awareness

Environmental Protection Agency - www.epa.gov/
EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment -- air, water, and land - upon which life depends.

National Audubon Society - www.audubon.org
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

Energy Quest - www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html
Energy Quest is the award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission.

Action

Greenpeace - www.greenpeace.org/
Global environmental organization using non-violent actions and lobbing at international conferences.

The Nature Conservancy - www.nature.org/
The Nature Condervancy, since 1951, has been working with communities, businesses and people like you to protect more than 92 million acres around the world.

Sierra Club - www.sierraclub.org
The Sierra Club practices and promotes the responsible use of earth's ecosystems and resources.

Animal Rights

Awareness

Animal Concerns - www.animalconcerns.org
Animal Concerns is a clearinghouse for animal-related and vegetarian news, information and resources.

International Society for Animal Rights - www.isaronline.org
ISAR was founded in 1959 to expose and end the injustice and exploitation of animals and the suffering inflicted on them.

World Wildlife Fund - www.wwf.org
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands.

Action

PETA - www.peta.org
PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals.

Friends of Animals - www.friendsofanimals.org
Friends of Animals works to protect animals from cruelty, abuse and institutionalized exploitation.

Animal Liberation Front - www.animalliberationfront.com
The ALF's short-term aim is to save as many animals as possible and directly disrupt the practice of animal abuse. Their long term aim is to end all animal suffering by forcing animal abuse companies out of business.

Safer Sex

Coalition for Positive Sexuality - www.positive.org
The Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS) is a grassroots, not-for-profit, activist organization.

Sex Education Coalition - www.sexedcoalition.org
The Sex Education Coalition is composed of educators, health care professionals, trainers, and legislators dedicated to providing information and supporting informed discussion concerning sexuality education.

Sex, Etc. www.sxetc.org
SEX, ETC., a sexuality and health newsletter written by teens for teens

Advocates for Youth - www.advocatesforyouth.org

Health

STDs

Centers for Disease Control - www.cdc.gov
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - www.niaid.nih.gov
NIAID provides the major support for scientists conducting research aimed at developing better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent the many infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases that afflict people worldwide.

New York Online Access to Health - www.noah-health.org
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.

Depression

National Institute of Mental Health - www.nimh.nih.gov
The National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) advises on all policies and activities relating to the conduct and support of mental health research, research training, and other programs.

American Psychiatric Association - www.psych.org
The American Psychiatric Association works to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorder, including mental retardation and substance-related disorders. It is the voice and conscience of modern psychiatry.

Depression Screening - www.depression-screening.org
The National Mental Health Association is dedicated to promoting mental health, preventing mental disorders and achieving victory over mental illnesses through advocacy, education, research and service.

Eating Disorders

National Eating Disorders Associations - www.mentalhealthscreening.org
Screening for Mental Health, Inc. is a nonprofit organization developed to coordinate nationwide mental health screening programs and to ensure cooperation, professionalism, and accountability in mental illness screenings.

American Academy of Family Physicians - www.aafp.org
The Academy was founded to promote and maintain high quality standards for family doctors who are providing continuing comprehensive health care to the public.

Girl Power - www.girlpower.gov
Girl Power!, the national public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate 9- to 14- year-old girls to make the most of their lives

AIDS/HIV

HIV/AIDS Service - www.hivatis.org
The HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) is a central resource for federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS.

HIV Insite - hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite
HIV InSite's mission is to be a source for comprehensive, in-depth HIV/AIDS information and knowledge.

AVERT - www.avert.org
AVERT is responsible for a wide range of education and medical research work with the overall aim of: preventing people from becoming infected with HIV, improving the quality of life of those already infected, through medical research working to develop a cure for AIDS.

Diversity

American Civil Liberties Union - www.aclu.org
Defends and preserves rights and liberties guaranteed under the Constitution and laws of the United States

Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.

Diversity Web - www.diversityweb.org
Diversity Works is a family of projects providing resources to colleges and universities that view diversity as a compelling educational priority and institutional commitment, important for every campus, every learner and the wider society.

Anti-Violence

Youth

Kids and Guns - www.kidsandguns.com
Common Sense about Kids and Guns is a non-profit group of owners and non-owners of guns committed to working together to protect America's children from gun deaths and injuries.

Stop the Violence - www.stv.net
Stop the Violence (STV) is a non-profit organization formed to counteract the negative influences affecting our youth and providing alternative methods (other than violence) of resolving issues affecting their lives.

Youth Alive - www.youthalive.org
To prevent youth violence and generate youth leadership in California communities.

Suicide

Teen Advice - www.teenadvice.org
The Mission of Teen Advice Online (TAO) is to provide support for teenage problems through a network of peers from around the globe.

S.A.V.E . -www.save.org
The mission of SAVE is to educate about suicide prevention and to speak for suicide survivors.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - www.afsp.org
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is dedicated to advancing our knowledge of suicide and our ability to prevent it.

Domestic

National Domestic Violence Hotline - www.ndvh.org
The Hotline provides callers with information they might otherwise have found difficult or impossible to obtain.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence - www.ncadv.org NCADV is dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and therefore is committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.

Women Helping Battered Women - www.together.net/~whbw
WHBW began in 1974 and has evolved into the largest shelter for battered women in Vermont.

Rape

Men Can Stop Rape - www.mencanstoprape.org
Men Can Stop Rape (formerly Men's Rape Prevention Project) empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence.

Rape Abuse and Incest National Network - www.rainn.org
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., operates America's only national hotline for victims of sexual assault.

Rape Crisis Center - www.rapecrisis.com
The Rape Crisis Center for children and adults was founded in 1975 to provide comprehensive services to sexual assault victims and their families.

The Media

Media Literacy

Just Think - www.justthink.org
The Just Think Foundation (JTF) is a dynamic nonprofit, dedicated to teaching young people literacy for the 21st century by providing them with the skills to be critical thinkers and creative producers.

Center on Media Literacy - www.medialit.org
The Center for Media Literacy is dedicated to the ability to communicate competently in all media forms, print and electronic, as well as to access, understand, analyze and evaluate the powerful images, words and sounds that make up our contemporary mass media culture.

Media Awareness Network - www.media-awareness.ca/eng
The mission of the Media Awareness Network is to promote and support media education.

Consumerism

Commerical Alert - www.commercialalert.org
The mission of Commercial Alert is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.

Learning Network - www.learningnetwork.com
The Learning Network empower learners of all ages to reach their full potential.

Media Education Foundation - www.mediaed.org
The Media Education Foundation is a non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and production of resources to aid educatiors and others in fostering analytical media literacy.

Substance Abuse

Drugs

Focus Adolescent Services - www.focusas.com
Focus Adolescent Services is an internet clearinghouse of information and resources to help and support families with troubled and at-risk teens.

Join Together - www.jointogether.org
Join Together supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation.

National Institute on Drug Abuse - www.nida.nih.gov
NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.

Tobacco

American Lung Association - www.lungusa.org
ALA today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.

Action on Smoking and Health - www.ash.org
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a national nonprofit legal action and educational organization fighting for the rights of nonsmokers against the many problems of smoking.

Quit Smoking Support - www.quitsmokingsupport.com
QuitSmokingSupport.com is dedicated in providing free support, information, and resources to assist anyone who has the desire to quit smoking.

Alcohol

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - www.niaaa.nih.gov
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving - www.madd.org
MADD's focus is to look for effective solutions to the drunk driving and underage drinking problems, while supporting those who have already experienced the pain of these senseless crimes.

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information - www.health.org
NCADI is the world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse.

Youth Activism

Human Rights

Oxfam - www.oxfam.org
Oxfam International is a confederation of twelve non-governmental organizations working together in more than 80 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

Physicians for Human Rights - www.phrusa.org
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - www.lchr.org
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights has worked in the U.S. and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law.

Poverty

UNICEF - www.unicef.org
UNICEF helps children get the care and stimulation they need in the early years of life and encourages families to educate girls as well as boys.

America's Second Harvest - www.secondharvest.org
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization.

Children's Defense Fund - www.childrensdefense.org
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind -- and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Gender and Sexuality

Office of Minority Health - www.omhrc.gov

The mission of OMH is to improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health.

Youth Resource - www.youthresource.com/
YouthResource, a Web site created by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) young people 13 to 24 years old, takes a holistic approach to sexual health by offering support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about issues of concern to GLBTQ young people.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of United States - www.siecus.org
SIECUS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to affirming that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life.