Posts Tagged ‘ Be the Change Inc. ’
Update, Dec. 9: Although Alan Khazei gained the endorsements of many prominent people and even The Boston Globe, he was defeated at the polls during the Democratic primary Dec. 8th, by Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General. Khazei won 13 percent of the popular vote during yesterday’s election. Among the hopefuls to fill Ted Kennedy’s long-held [ READ MORE ]
Monday, Service Nation coalition members and others gathered for a luncheon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, prior to the kick off of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Overall the strategy luncheon was more luncheon than strategy, but I was glad to see an effort made to bring the Service Nation campaign spirit into the National Conference on Volunteering and Service gathering, which overall seeemed to involve more media attention and celebrity involvement this year than in the past. Speakers included[ READ MORE ]
The New Service podcast from Idealist.org takes a look at a new national partnership. Corporate social responsibility and citizen service are increasingly becoming two sides of the same coin, as more business-sectoemployees and clients demand opportunities to improve their communities as part of their workplace culture. Exemplifying the beneficial opportunities of cross-sector alliances is the new national partnership between the nonprofit Be The Change, Inc., and the business network Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). [ READ MORE ]
In order to end filibuster, 60 Senators were needed to vote "cloture." According to Alan Khazei of Be The Change, Inc., and Service Nation, 74 Senators voted cloture, "an extremely strong bi-partisan vote, with 22 Republicans joining 50 Democrats and 2 Independents voting in favor." To find out if your Senators voted to allow the Serve America bill to proceed, check out this list of "Yea" voters[ READ MORE ]
Wednesday, January 14th, Alan Khazei is slated to guest on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Khazei is Be The Change, Inc's founder and CEO, the leader of the Service Nation movement, and co-founder of City Year[ READ MORE ]
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