Browse these sites for ideas & resources for planning your own Alternative Break trip and international service-learning travel!

International Organizations

Break Away, an excellent resource for trip leaders, is a national organization helping universities to organize alternative breaks. You can seach the site bank database for organizations that can host an alternative break trip (contact the Alternative Break coordinator for password & login).

Global Exchange is an organization that can help students coordinate trips. Global Exchange is experienced in holding "Reality Tours" which promote socially responsible travel. Trips focus on social, economic, political and environmental issues.

Center for Global Education at Augsburg College specializes in experiential, inter-cultural and educational travel. They can create customized trips with justice themes.

Amizade is a global volunteering and service-learning foundation, offering programs in Bolivia, Brazil, Ghana, Jamaica, Tanzania, Mexico, Northern Ireland and the Navajo Nation.

AU Hillel organizes trips with Jewish themes for AU students.

Solimar Travel is a sustainable tourism agency in DC promoting travel to Costa Rica and Jamaica.

Witness for Peace organizes human rights, peace, and justice grassroots travel-education delegations in Latin America: Colombia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Mexico.

Cross-Cultural Solutions offers volunteer programs around the world.

African Diaspora Culture Yourworld is a company that organizes trips to Brazil with a focus on the African Diaspora Culture.

Transitions Abroad is a magazine with guides to work, study, travel, and living abroad.Read "The Monkey Hunt", an article written by Alternative Break coordinator, Shoshanna Sumka, about leading service-learning trips in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

OneWorld U.S. Alternative Travel Guide is a compliation of unique travel opportunities offered by nonprofits designed to broaden your travel experience and make it a more holistic experience. It also provides information on volunteer programs, study tours, and internships.

World Neighbors is an international development organization that provides training for communities to find long term solutions to poverty, hunger, disease, and a healthy environment.

ProWorld's mission is to promote social and economic development, empower communities, and cultivate educated compassionate global citizens. They coordinate service-learning programs in Peru, Belize, Mexico, India and Thailand.

Dalit Solidarity is committed to the principles of justice and equality for all Indians, regardless of caste, race, gender or religion. This commitment is expressed by providing access to quality health care and education, providing economic opportunities and working to protect human rights.

International Partners cultivates leadership capacity and create personal partnerships with grass-roots leaders in developing countries to bring education, health, and opportunity to people in impoverished communities. They organize delegations to El Salvador.

Travel Alive offers volunteer, Spanish language and adventure programs in Nicaragua and Ecuador.

Global Vision International provides opportunities to work on conservation and humanitarian projects around the world including: Mexico, Seychelles, Patagonia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand and Laos.

Intrepid MAD Projects work on community development projects in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

American Hiking Society builds and maintains trails across the US.

COPRODELI works with Peruvian communities to provide fundamental needs, education and job training. They will help you organize an alternative spring break trip.

Foundation for Sustainable Development supports the efforts of grassroots development organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia that are working to better the communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them.

Sustainable Horizon can help to create customized alternative break trips with an environmental focus in Latin America.