Bonner Center for Character Education and Citizenship
Bonner Center for Character Education and Citizenship The Bonner Center is located in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development of California State University, Fresno. The Center was formed in 1997 to promote character education in the Central Valley. Its activities include bringing nationally recognized speakers to the Fresno area, organizing forums on character education and professional ethics, coordinating a variety of character award programs, and providing small grants for local public schools and teachers.

The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character (CAEC)
The CAEC is committed to providing educators with the resources necessary to foster the development of strong character and good judgment in students. This site offers many character education resources for teachers, administrators, students, parents, and scholars/researchers. Articles about character education, lesson plans, and reading lists can be easily downloaded from the website.

The Center for the 4th & 5th Rs
The Center serves as a regional, state, and national resource in character education. A growing national movement, character education is essential to the task of building a moral society and developing schools which are civil and caring communities. 

Character Counts!
The purpose of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition is to fortify the lives of America’s young people with consensus ethical values called the “Six Pillars of Character.” These values, which transcend divisions of race, creed, politics, gender and wealth, are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.

Character Education Partnership
The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society. Our members hold that core ethical values such as respect, responsibility, and honesty can both be a matter of consensus and a model for our youth. We are committed to the practical implementation of character education throughout the learning process.

NC Character Education Partnership (1996-2001)
Formerly housed at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the North Carolina Character Education Partnership (NCCEP) developed a model to promote the development of character and citizenship through community consensus, curriculum and climate. This model and support materials are available to assist in the integration of character education throughout a school.

NC Center for the Prevention of School Violence
Established in 1993 as one of the nation's first state school safety centers, the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development. The Center focuses on ensuring that schools function so that every student who attends does so in environments that are safe and secure, free of fear and conducive to learning. Positive youth development efforts are emphasized as the Center focuses beyond the school into the community and works in support of youth-serving programs and agencies which target the development of attitudes, behaviors, and conditions that enable youth to grow and become productive members of their communities.

The North Carolina Center for Character Education
The North Carolina Center for Character Education is a on-profit organization dedicated to providing resources and information to help nurture positive character traits in today's youth.  We have resources available for educators, parents, and business and community leaders.

Development Studies Center
DSC, a non-profit organization which started in 1980, it has developed programs and research to foster children’s intellectual, social, and ethical development. One of our primary goals is to support educators to create “caring communities of learners” in schools. Our vision of a caring community of learners is a place where adults and children practice such core values as kindness, respect for others, and responsibility, and where children learn important subject matter and develop their intellectual capacity.

International Center for Character Education
The Center’s purpose is to: enable school personnel, parents, teacher educators, faith community members, youth providers, and concerned individuals to come together to study, discuss, learn, practice, reflect, and write on issues, programs, problems and promises regarding the character education of children and youth.

National Service Learning Clearinghouse
The NSLC staff welcomes you to the Clearinghouse. We are here to provide you with information services and technical assistance. Please ask us if you need help with academic research, program startup, assessment and evaluation, term papers, downloading online documents, or anything else regarding service-learning.

North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
The Civic Education Consortium resides at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CEC unites community partners, educators and children and youth to revitalize civic education for young North Carolinians. The Consortium works toward a future in which all North Carolina children and youth become enthusiastic, involved citizens endowed with the knowledge, skills and confidence to participate in democratic life.

Search Institute
The Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates, synthesizes, and communicates new knowledge, convenes organizational and community leaders, and works with state and national organizations.

The Southern Poverty Law Center
The Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.  Its programs include the Intelligence Project, Teaching Tolerance and Tolerance.org.

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