- Community Garden.Org: Volunteer in a local community garden or help start one. Find a community garden in your area by the name of the garden or by zip code, city or state.
- Earth Day Network: Register your community service project online and recruit volunteers if you need them. The toolkit, Earth Day in a Box tells you how to plan and sponsor a project.
- The Environmental Protection Agency provides free, downloadable publications about community service projects including: Environmental Protection Begins With You, Linking Girls to the Land, Service-Learning Beyond the Classroom, and Volunteer for Change.
- EPA's Adopt Your Watershed Program: Find watershed groups in your area by zip code. The website maintains a database of 2600 groups nationwide.
- Groundwater.Org: Community service project ideas for youth and their families.
- Local Harvest.Org: Search for CSA farms in your area for volunteer opportunities on small sustainable farms.
- National Parks Service: There are almost 400 national parks in the United States with many volunteer service projects. Read the Volunteers-In-Parks Brochure to learn more.
- National Public Lands Day: Search for volunteer opportunities in your area.
- National Wildlife Federation's Schoolyard Habitats Program: Volunteer in or help start a schoolyard habitat.
- Nature Conservancy: Contact your local chapter about volunteer opportunities.
- Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup of rivers, lakes and beaches. Select "Take Action" from the menu bar and under "International Coastal Cleanup" click "Think globally, act locally."
- Serve.Gov: Search for local volunteer opportunities for environmental community service. You'll also find toolkits on this same website for creating and registering your own project.
- Sierra Club: Contact your local chapter about volunteer opportunities.
- Teens for Planet Earth.Org provides online interactive guides to support teens as they develop an environmental community service project.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - There are over 530 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States. Check out their website to find a refuge near you.
- Youth Service America.Org: Geared toward youth ages 5 to 25, this organization provides the tools, information and resources for planning, designing and completing a service project locally, nationally or globally.
- Global Youth Service Day: The largest service event in the world that takes place every year in over 100 countries.
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