Eighty-seven percent of those 45 and older had volunteered to help their community or a person in need in the last 12 months, according to “Time and Money: An In-Depth Look at 45+ Volunteers and Donors,” a 2003 study by AARP.

“Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes towards Politics and Public Service,”  a 2012 study from Harvard University Institute of Politics, asked Americans ages 18 to 29 about their opinions regarding politics and public service.

The Muslim Alliance in North America is a national network of masjids, Muslim organizations and individuals committed to work together to address certain urgent needs within the Muslim community.  They are especially concerned with issues affecting indigenous Muslims. Contact: Siraj Wahhaj.

LARIBA is a financing institution that complies with both Islamci Shari’aa law and the United States laws and regulations for financing. They offer housing/mortgage solutions for those interested in taking an Islamic approach to home purchasing.

Andrew Careaga is the author of eMinistry: Connecting With the Net Generation (Kregel, 2001). He is executive director of marketing and communications for Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in Rolla, Missouri and has been a volunteer youth pastor at Salem Faith Assembly Church in Salem, Mo. Contact on Twitter @andrewcareaga.

Pastor Phil Jackson conducts hip-hop worship services at Lawndale Community Church in Chicago with the Firehouse Community Arts Center, which seeks to “uncover and develop the gifts and strengths of North Lawndale’s youth and young adult residents.”

Patricia Howery Davis is author of Beyond Nice: The Spiritual Wisdom of Adolescent Girls (Fortress Press, 2000).  

Mark Regnerus is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has done research on the influence of religion on adolescent behavior, including the influence of teens’ religiosity on delinquency, whether they stay in school and what they think about sex, for example. Regnerus is co-author, with Jeremy Uecker, of Premarital Sex in […]

Wesley O. Black, professor of student ministries at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has written about diverse approaches to youth ministry and can talk about what works – and doesn’t work – in ministering to teenagers in churches.