Archive for July, 2010
A gathering to celebrate Northwest Service Academy. Monday, 50 members of the extended Northwest Service Academy community gathered at the Lower Columbia Center here in Portland to share stories of the remarkable impact NWSA has had in the community and in their own lives. The gathering felt like a celebration and, frankly, a closing of [ READ MORE ]
On June 10th, 15 recent college graduates moved to Chicago to begin their service with the Inner-City Teaching Corps’s Volunteer Teaching Corps. ICTC Recruitment Director Jim Conti contributed this post introducing the newest members of one of ICTC’s communities. They came from across the country, and from universities like Northwestern University, the University of Notre [ READ MORE ]
In early June, one of the most vibrant AmeriCorps programs operating in the Pacific Northwest — Northwest Service Academy (NWSA) — was notified that its latest funding request to the Corporation for National and Community Service was denied, with no warning and no explanation — after 16 years of achieving its performance goals, and establishing [ READ MORE ]
Be The Change, Inc. — the folks behind the Service Nation movement to grow funding and support for service opportunities — have launched a survey to ask you how you find volunteer opportunities. A Service Nation blog post explains: In the next month, we are launching a project that we are calling ServiceCensus. The ServiceCensus [ READ MORE ]
On October 25-28, 2010, the International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) will convene youth civic engagement professionals for the 9th Global Conference on National Youth Service in Alexandria, Egypt. (Registration is now open. Click here to register!) The 2010 Global Conference is organized by IANYS Secretariat – Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) – in [ READ MORE ]
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