Connect to online organizations that have helped start local, regional, nationwide, and international Laws of Life Essay Contests:

Georgia Statewide Contest. With over 20,000 young people participating in last year’s contest, the Georgia
    Contest is the largest in the world. Check out their nifty website!
Palm Beach County Contest. Check out this fabulous new website, which showcases the long-running Palm Beach
    County Contest.

Bucks County Boy Scouts: Sponsors a countywide contest for kids of all ages in Bucks County, PA.
Character Unlimited: Battle Creek, MI contest.
City of Naples: Collier Country, FL contest
College of the Ozarks: Learn about the essay contest for incoming freshmen run by the Keeter Center for Character
    Education.
Jesse Helms Center: Statewide North Carolina Contest and countrywide contest in Mexico!
Junior Achievement-Russia: nationwide contest throughout the Russian Federation
Kent City Schools, OH: Visit the Character Education Committee, which runs the Kent City contest
Kiwanis Club of Medford: Medford, WI contest
Laws of Life Essay Project on the International Education and Resource Network:
    26 countries participate in the Laws of Life Essay Project. Here are some regional websites created by I*EARN
    Laws of Life Essay project participants:
       Arabic Website in Morocco
       China Website at Chengdu #9 Middle School
       Romanian Website at "Alexandru Papiu Ilarian" Highschool, in Dej, Romania
       Spanish Website in Telar, Argentina
 Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club: Visit the club’s website to learn all about the San Mateo contest!
Mohave Valley Unity Church: Sponsors the Bull Head City and Mohave Vallez, AZ contest!
Montgomery Village Rotary Club: Gaithersburg, MD contest
Napa County Board of Supervisors: Napa County, CA contest
 New Zealand Laws of Life Essay Contest, sponsored by the New Zealand Foundation for Character Education
Northwestern School District: Albion, PA contest
Ohio Partners in Character Education: Statewide Ohio Contest
Passkeys~Jefferson Center for Character Education sponsors contests in high schools across the US!
 San Diego: A new contest has been launched for students in San Diego County thanks to the efforts of the
     International Center for Character Education at the University of San Diego and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
 School District of Clayton: The Clayton, MO contest
 School for Ethical Education: Learn all about the Statewide Connecticut Contest in SEE's comprehensive contest
    report!
 St. Louis Laws of Life Essay Contest (MO): The contest is administrated by CHARACTERplus, which invites
    students from the 68 area high schools to participate.
 Taft Juvenile Offenders Contest. Learn all about how Taft has adapted the Laws of Life program, which has had a great
    impact on their young men, who are among the most serious juvenile offenders in the state of Tennessee.
Turning Points Program of The Learning Partnership: Province-wide contest throughout Ontario, Canada
US Virgin Islands: The Peter Gruber Foundation sponsors the contest in high schools on St. Thomas and St. Croix.

If your organization has helped start a Laws of Life Essay Contest, please send your link to links@lawsoflife.org so that we can include it on this page. Thank you!

   


YMCA of the USA
Kiwanis International
Lions Club International
Rotary International
Optimist International
Soroptomist International
United Way of America
Council on Foundations
National Parent Teachers Association

You are welcome to add your own community organizations and associations link by sending it to links@lawsoflife.org.

   


America's Promise
    Visit this site to learn all about the Five Promises of General Colin Powell's initiative aimed at mobilizing people from
    every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth.

The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character
    Learn about all of the Center's character education's initiatives at this easy-to-navigate website.

The Center for Youth Issues
    Find out about this national, non-profit organization that has helped start more 10 essay contests across the country!

CHARACTER COUNTS!
    Coalition of the Josephson Institute of Ethics. Learn about the coalition, whose programs are committed to the "Six
    Pillars of Character". In Maryland, Character Counts! of the Mid-Shore community sponsors a Laws of Life
    Essay Contest.

Character Education Partnership
    CEP is the leading authority on character education and an invaluable first stop for information and resources on
    character  education. Not to miss: the site's useful resources and links to other character education websites. CEP is
    an enthusiastic supporter of the essay contest!

The Cooperating School District of St. Louis
    The character education links of Cooperating School District's website of St. Louis, Missouri. Check out these useful
    links, especially the one to CSD's own, comprehensive character education initiative. CSD sponsors a St. Louis area
    essay contest all of the school districts.

The Ethics Resource Center
    Enjoy surfing ERC's attractive site, and make sure you check out the page on their character education program.

The Kenan Ethics Institute
    Learn about the institute, whose mission is to support the study and teaching of ethics and promote moral reflection.

Institute for Global Ethics
    Visit IGE's website to learn more about their mission of promoting public discourse and practical action
    around significant ethical issues.

International Center for Character Education
    Check out ICCE's website to learn about their annual conference in San Diego and all of the character education
    programs they offer. Thank you ICCE for enthusiastically promoting the Laws of Life Essay Contest
     at  your annual conference!

Maxims Net is a place for parents, teachers, and researchers to share information about maxims, proverbs, and wise
    sayings.

School for Ethical Education
    SEE's vision is to promote ethics in action for the creation of positive character and the advancement of responsible
    and caring communities. SEE launched a statewide Connecticut Laws of Life Essay Contest in the spring of 2001.
    Visit the site to learn all about how SEE administrated a successful statewide essay contest. Detailed description and
    lots of examples!

Feel free to send a character education link to links@lawsoflife.org.

   


Center for Learning: a nonprofit educational publisher committed to integrating academic learning and universal values
    through the humanities.
ERIC's Searchable Lessons Plans (for K-12 teachers - hint: search for writing)
National Writing Centers Association
National Writing Project
Service Learning in Composition
Practical Ideas on Writing from the National Council of Teachers of English
The Writery at the University of Missouri


You are welcome to add your own writing resource link by sending it to links@lawsoflife.org. Thank you!.

   


Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Boy Scouts of America
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Service Learning in Composition
Camp Fire Boys and Girls
Girl Scouts of the USA


You are welcome to add your own youth group's link by sending it to links@lawsoflife.org. Thank you!

   

 
The Laws of Life Essay Contest is endorsed by the National School Boards Association and is on the
National Association of Secondary School Principals’ National Advisory List of Student Contests and Activities.