CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND EDUCATION
Y2K - GENERAL PURPOSE INFORMATION
Y2K - GOVERNMENTS: United States
CHILDREN,
FAMILIES AND EDUCATION
Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families: http://casey.umd.edu/
Casey Center is an excellent source for community issues briefings on
children and families.
National Center for Education Statistics, Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/NCES/
Children's Defense Fund: http://www.chidrensdefense.org
Legislation and youth policy updates: www.dosomething.org
Youth-led organizatiuon with community focus: http://www.youthactivism.com
List of success stories about youth leadership. Topics range from tobacco
to video games to race discrimination to sexuality issues.
National Conference of State Legislatures, http://www.ncsl.org/ihpp/ltc/ltclink.htm#organizations
This site tracks state legislation on various issues. NCSL provides a
good links page to reports and organizations that deal with Aging and
Long-Term Care issues on their website. It includes links to the Administration
on Aging, National Clearinghouse for Legal Services Senior links, SeniorLaw
Home Page, and Elder Law Publications.
For live help, try Wendy Fox-Grage or Dick Merritt, 202-624-5400
Education Writers Association: http://www.ewa.org
National Education Association: http://www.nea.org
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
The Urban Institute home page: http://www.urban.org
Community Information exchange, http://www.comminfoexch.org/related.htm
This organization is a non-profit offering news of community solutions
and has just switched from a free to subscriber-based service. The web
site has hundreds of links to other sites of community development organizations.
Alliance for National Renewal, http://www.ncl.org/anr/
This is a great place to check out developments in community activism
around the country on the "community stories" page. Info on
civic journalism, interracial dialogue, and community and economic development.
Project of the Community Media Service, http://www.newstips.org
They are a nonprofit wire service focsuing on Chicago and Illinois news.
The Civic Practices Network, http://www.cpn.org/sections/about_cpn/whatsnew.html
The web site lists projects around the country, with 50 affiliate organizations.
The Endowment for Democracy, http://www.ned.org/page_5/expert.html,
has created a searchable database of Experts on Democracy around the world,
listing their specialties, publications and contact details. A good resource
for people interested in building stronger democracies, as well as for
anyone who wants to design an online directory of experts in any field.
CRIME
AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Site that offers articles and lots of links: www.mediate.com
updated fairly often. The Mediation Information & Resource Center,
headed by John Helie, is also a good contact for more info.
Consensus Building Institute; www.cbi-web.org
, offers on-line newsletter and links. CBI staff is also affiliated
with Harvard Program on Negotiation.
Join Together http://www.jointogether.org/
is a national resource org. for the prevention of substance abuse and
gun violence. The online version has features every week, links to contacts,
background, and news compiled from wire reports around the world, links
galore. Very helpful in these two areas.
http://www.rwjf.org/main.html
Home page with links maintained by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
National Prevention Group: http://www.drugstrategies.org
DIVERSITY
AND RACE RELATIONS
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division home page:
www.usdoj.gov/crt
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission home page: www.eeoc.gov/
Home page for White House race relations: www.whitehouse.gov/initiatives/OneAmerica
The intiative with links and information on promising practices.
The Urban Institute home page: www.urban.org
The Black World Today: www.tbwt.com.
A national online digest of articles, opinion, links on issues of concern.
NAACP's home page with news and links: http://www.naacp.org/
The Mining Company's page of links to information and news on race relations:
http://usnews.miningco.com/msub15.htm
Southern Poverty Law center home page: http://www.splcenter.org
A national leader in tolerance education and responses to hate crime.
http://www.links2go.com/more/lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
This web site contains a great deal of African American history with information
links. The material is part of an independent directory compiled by Mike
Madin, Copyright 1998-99 Academic Info.
The Academic Info home page is here: http://www.academicinfo.net/afrianam.html
E-mail: africanam@academicinfo.net
PBS Lehrer NewsHour site: www.pbs.org/www.pbs.org/newshour/
has topically organized and searchable archives in text of past shows,
including a series on race relations.
The award-winning newspaper Akron Beacon Journals series on race relations
issues: http://www.ohio.com/projects/color
The Center for Applied Special Technology http://www.cast.org/
runs a site that analyzes web sites for their accessibility to people
with disabilities, as well as their compatibility with various browsers.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) http://shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm
maintains the Internet's largest database of human rights organizations.
One nice feature is its capability to quickly translate any entry to and
from English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German.
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, http://www.glaad.org/
claims to act as a media watchdog. They have a good list of current "news
about the media" and a great list of quotes and responses from Gay
and Lesbian activists concerning current media issues.
National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Assoc..www.nlga.com
News, links, issues updates
ENVIRONMENT
US Environmental Protection Association home page: http://www.epa.gov
The Environmental Defense Fund, http://www.scorecard.org
has set up a huge interactive site that enables anyone in the US to learn
about what pollutants are being released into any community, and by whom.
Enter your ZIP code or click on their maps to see who is doing what to
your air, water and soil.
This EPA web page, http://www.epa.gov/children/third/eight-b.htm
titled Childrens Health resources, contains links to over 50 government
and non-profit sources of environmental and health information.
GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
U.S. CONGRESS ONLINE: http://thomas.loc
WHITE HOUSE: http:www.whitehouse.gov
Home page for White House race relations intiative www.whitehouse.gov/initiatives/OneAmerica
with links and information on promising practices.
FEDERAL AGENCIES:
U.S. Department of Justice: www.usdoj.gov/
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission home page: www.eeoc.gov/
U.S. General Services Administration's "Community Guide to Y2K" web site, a clearinghouse for Y2K information and links: http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/community/Comaction.htm
STATES:
National Conference of State Legislatures, http://www.ncsl.org/ihpp/ltc/ltclink.htm#organizations tracks state legislation on various issues.
Non-profit news service http://www.stateline.org tracking state legislative and policy developments.
HEALTH
CARE
American Medical Association home page: http:/www.ama-assn.org
Home page with links and information on health care, youth and elder issues,
http://www.rwjf.org/main.html,
maintained by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Join Together, http://www.jointogether.org/,
is a national resource organization for the prevention of substance abuse
and gun violence. The online version has features, links to contacts,
background, and news compiled from wire reports.
National drug abuse prevention and education group: http://www.drugstrategies.org
The Center for Applied Special Technology, http://www.cast.org/bobby,
runs a site that analyzes web sites for their accessibility to people
with disabilities, as well as their compatibility with various browsers.
Enter your URL, and Bobby will tell you how accessible your site is now,
and how to make it more accessible for more people.
INTERNET
REPORTING TOOLS
Non-profit media briefing and links site: http://www.facsnet.org/cgi-bin
Includes advice and resources for internet reporting.
Non-profit media briefing site http:www.publicagenda.org
featuring public opinion surveys, hot issues updates for journlists, links
galore.
Links to pretty much every engine on the web, http://www.simmons.edu/~schwartz/mysearch.html
including lots of meta- and specialized databases. Good intro. if you
are not familiar with all of the search vehicles on the market.
Non-profit organization involved in education, http://www.ustc.org, maintains a how-to use the internet tutorial on this web site.
National Conference of State Legislatures website: http://www.ncsl.org/
-- scroll down to "Internet Sites" and those provide ample links to choose
from, including:
http://www.vote-smart.org/ce/s-index.html
State Legislatures (Project Vote Smart)
Biographies and contact information for legislators in all 50 states,
Includes e-mail address if available. Searchable by name or district within
each state. Includes governors and additional state government sources.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/state.html#bibs State and Local Government on the Web from the University of Michigan
Biography Online Database, http://www.biography.com/find/find.html More than 20,000 people from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography.
Biographical Dictionary, http://www.s9.com/biography/ More than 22,000 people from past to present.
OTHER
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
http://wire.ap.org/ Updated on
the hour.
CNN's web site, http://www.cnn.com
has hourly updates with a focus on Washington.
Online news from the yahoo search engine: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/e_online/
Good for quick facts and links to top stories in news, entertainment,
politics, etc. Links to Reuters, AP, etc.
PBS Lehrer NewsHour site.www.pbs.org/www.pbs.org/newshour/
Has topically organized and searchable archives in text of past shows,
as well as recent material.
National Public Radio online: http://www.npr.org/news
In-depth features on selected issues.
USA Today: http://usatoday.com
The Washington Post: http://washingtonpost.com
Washington Post Company's online news service for lobbyists, http:www.legislate.com/
- state and local government policy wonks, journalists following federal
and state policy issues. Contains a mix of in-depth features and also
occasional "heads-up" on pending federal and state policy developments.
US News & World Report: http:www.usnews.com
Deep site, in-depth coverage with archived material available; often good
statistics and links on topical issues.
Editor & Publisher site: http://www.mediainfo.com
Online directory of media web sites around the world, including newspapers,
magazines, TV and radio stations, and media associations.
American Journalism Review: http://www.newslink.org
Links for media, updates of issues that are hot for the media, and which
the public may deem interesting, and/or controversial.
Quick links to 100 papers around the country, http://www.interest.com/top100.html
contains alphabetical listings by name of city.
Y2K News and Information Web Sites
GENERAL Y2K NEWS SITES
COMMUNITY
Y2K
ADVOCACY SITES
Utne
Reader Citizen Action Guide and information: http://www.utne.com/y2k/
Co-Intellence
Institute: http://www.co-intelligence.org/Y2K.html
Paloma Riley web site: http://cassandraproject.org/
Y2K Communities web site: http://www.y2kcommunity.org/
Resilient Communities Web Site: http://www.resilientcommunities.org/
Global Milleniun Foundation: http://www.globalmf.org/
GOVERNMENT
Y2K WEB SITES
General
Y2K information and resources: http://www.y2k.gov/text/index.htm
U.S. Small Business Adminsitration Y2K information: http://www.sba.gov
U.S. House of Respresentatives: http://www.house.gov/reform/gmit/y2k/
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