Archive for the ‘ Service News ’ Category
Innovations in Civic Participation recently released a new publication providing brief snapshots of youth civic engagement programs and policies in 101 countries spanning six continents. The report, Youth Civic Participation in Action: Meeting Community and Youth Development Needs Worldwide, builds on information ICP has gathered over the years from previous participants of the International Association [ READ MORE ]
This is the first post contributed by Health Corps Coordinator Nathan Allen who serves in Mississippi. Sarah Fishtrom is a Health Corps Coordinator at Kurt Hahn High School in Brooklyn, New York. Sarah is Danish and has the gift of being excited about whatever you are excited about, which makes her joy to work with. [ READ MORE ]
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 ]
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