Student Movement for Real Change invites college students to participate in its annual Global Development Internship (GDI) program during the summer of 2009.
The GDI aims to provide college students on-the-ground development experience, cultural immersion, and the necessary leadership skills to develop sustainable projects that address local needs through a 6-8 week internship in [...]

BBC Best Practices Committee
Erin Barnhart from Idealist.org leads this group. Their charge is to create best practices for international volunteering. To that end, we’ve been collecting and reporting on other documents, and are gathering together a set of interview questions to take to volunteer-sending organizations. My job is to take all the random questions [...]

Run by Northwestern University’s Center for Global Engagement and supported abroad by the Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Global Engagement Summer Institute program will bring together students from universities around the country to learn from and work with communities in India, Argentina, and Uganda experiencing the problems of poverty and injustice.
The Global Engagement Summer Institute [...]

I’m thinking specifically accountability for college students who are carrying out international service projects. This topic is relevant to MPI, to CGI U, and hopefully to many of you.
How do we ensure follow through from the beginning?
Using step-by-step charts with deadlines, assigned responsibilities, etc. to facilitate follow through. Does anyone have some kind of relevant [...]

The Consortium for Global Service is currently developing a better architecture for sharing best practices and lessons learned among student global service projects, in order to improve student impact on the ground in service projects focused on health, education, and poverty alleviation.