Community and National Service

We conducted a study involving nearly 500 veterans in more than 400 nonprofit organizations in 42 states. 

We develop an instrument that allows service and volunteer organizations to assess the impact of their programs.

We assess activities and recommended performance measurement indicators to organizations aiming to increase asset ownership among low-income groups.

Our research finds that informal and formal civic service traditions in Lesotho are primarily a response to social necessity.

We support innovative research on civic service in countries all over the world from a multinational network of scholars and researchers.

We analyze national policies in France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland to investigate how national frameworks can expand international voluntary service. 

We assessed community partner perceptions of student volunteers, their preferred attributes and perceived impact from 2011-2013 survey data. 

We investigate the impact of service learning on environmental awareness and civic engagement.

We assess the forms, purposes, activities, servers  and operations of all civic service programs worldwide.

We study the impact of the service experience on participants in two programs for voluntary national service in Israel. 

We compare American youth service programs City Year and Teach for America with French programs Unis Cite and AFEV. 

We explore the general characteristics of schools in Argentina that run service-learning programs.

We study the impact of the service experience on participants in two programs for voluntary national service in Israel. 

We analyze civic service and volunteering initiatives in five Southern African countries and examined their implications for social development in the region.

We examine the effects of embedding a yearlong service learning program into existing school curricula for students in a middle school setting. 

Washington University and Duke University held a think tank about the relationship between social innovation and civic engagement in higher education.

We explore the nature of service and citizenship in the National Youth Service Corps program in Nigeria and how political forces have affected the program. 

We explore the impact of participation in a service-learning program at the college level on participants' civic engagement following graduation.

We investigate the potential of youth civic service programs to serve as effective development tools for transitional countries through focusing on Mongolia. 

We investigate corporate volunteering and its association with various dimensions of corporate philanthropy. 

We use the Social Network Analysis as a tool to measure the community-level impacts of the work accomplished by AmeriCorps volunteers in three U.S. cities. 

We investigate the Technical Aids Corps Scheme in Nigeria to examine participation, its effects on servers’ civic nationalism and its impact on communities. 

We examine whether Nepal's National Development Volunteer Service enhances civic engagement, especially among the nation's youth. 

We examine the scope and nature of service learning in urban and suburban schools and across socio-economic levels.

We investigate the characteristics and motivations of youth who serve in Germany's voluntary cultural year. 

We explore organizational factors promoting long-term civic service engagement at Habitat for Humanity International programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

We use our expertise to assess and test innovations that remove barriers to voting and enhance voter participation.

We investigate youth civic service worldwide and measure its impact on volunteers and the individuals and communities they serve.

We assess the status of youth volunteer service in Latin America and the Caribbean and its potential to serve as a strategy for social and economic development.