Recommended Links - United World College of the American West

This space is intended to highlight websites of interest to our community. If you have suggestions, please email them to Jeremiah Stevens at jeremiah.stevens@uwc-usa.org. Suggestions for additional categories are also welcome.

Activism

Campus Activism
Campus Activism is a portal/clearinghouse of events and organizations with a great Resources section, which archives of all sorts of things that student activists can utilize.
Dropping Knowledge
Dropping knowledge encourages social change. Using advanced web technologies, the initiative with offices in Berlin, Germany links the voices of individuals and organizations. The web-platform enables the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas, and start initiatives around the most pressing issues of our time.
Grassroots Fundraising
Information resource for raising money for your organization.
Grassroots Leadership
We are a southern-based national organization that works to defend democracy, enhance the public good and stop the erosion of the public sphere.
KIVA Micro-lending
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.
Resource Generation
Resource Generation works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.
United Students Against Sweatshops
The title says it all.
US Social Forum
The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration.

Alumni in the Arts

Erika Kulnys Band
Erika Kulnys '00 webpage for her band, including tour dates and access to her cds.

Alumni Service Organizations

Compassion Beyond Borders
Compassion Beyond Borders funds the education of impoverished girls and illiterate women—the poorest of the poor in the developing world benefiting refugees, orphans, minorities, “untouchables”, squatters, tribals and other disadvantaged women and girls.
SealNet- Southeast Asian Service Learning
The South East Asian Service Leadership Network (SEALNet) is a network of students from various American, British and South East Asian universities first founded at Stanford University in 2004.