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Community Outreach supports and sustains communities by providing increased, meaningful interaction between teachers, students and community members.

The following organizations might be possible partners in your community:

	Peace Corps - World Wise Schools http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws /guides/looking/intro.html Program that brings the community into schools and allows students to correspond with Peace Corps volunteers and the broader global community.
	Rotary International - Youth Exchange http://www.rotary.org/programs/youth_ex Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
	Kiwanis International http://www.kiwanis.org/ Kiwanis International sponsors many organizations and projects aimed at serving children in communities worldwide.
	Alliance Francais http://www.alliance-us.org/en/index.aspx The Alliance Française's mission in the United States is to encourage and develop knowledge of the French language and French and Francophone cultures, and to foster cultural, intellectual and artistic exchanges between the USA and France and the French-speaking countries.

Kaiser Permanente Partnership
madamenaditz@yahoo.com (Nicole Naditz)
The partnership between Kaiser Permanente and members of the California Language Teachers' Association began with Kaiser's appearance at an economic summit sponsored by the California Association for Bilingual Education.  After that, members of CLTA were asked to provide professional development for Kaiser through their intra-agency cable and video network.   A representative of Kaiser later spoke at a community event in Sacramento then the CLTA members presented at Kaiser's National Diversity Conference.