Making the decision to attend law school took awhile for me, and once that decision was set, choosing which schools to apply to was the next challenge.  These suggestions may seem obvious and simple, but hopefully it’s all helpful:
-Have conversations with as many people as you can who are going through, or have gone through [...]

some good reading:
structural problems John McKnight 1996, The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits

giving up: Jeff Schmidt 2001, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
how to do it right: Paul Farmer 2005, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Check out this important new book:
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms is a network for people who want to learn organic farming by doing. Farms provide housing and food to WWOOFers, who travel on their own schedule. Worldwide. US has a separate website.

http://www.mmccu.coop/program.html
This is an online program.

Breaking news: Graduate School in Europe can be much cheaper than in the US.
ALSO there are many more fabulously interdisciplinary courses than in the US. Here are two fabulous examples:
Carl vos Osssietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) has a http://www.coast.uni-oldenburg.de with degrees in Landscape Ecology, Sustainability Economics, and Water/Coastal Management… (!) Tuition is €750/semester, which is [...]

Union Semester
Environmental Semester
Mexico Solidarity Network

I’ve spoken to different professors about what you should choose in a grad. school. I’ve heard: follow your passion (what you lose yourself in), choose a grad. school with a name recognition, and find the grad. school with the right people (don’t base it strictly on location). I’ve also heard, that if you feel alone [...]

here are some websites that list progressive jobs with non-profits, etc.:
http://www.idealist.org/
Just Means
Opportunity Knocks
Commongood Careers
i don’t know anything about this organization. if you check into them, please comment: the Be Bold project of the Echoing Green Social Fund. they also have some kind of fellowship.
Young Non-Profit Professional Network’s  listserv: www.ynpn.org
in the Bay Area, i would also [...]

here are some places to go get some training, NON degree programs.
highlander center .
center for third world organizing .
mexico [...]