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John Bridgeland on renewing the Call to Serve
Co-organizer of the Service Nation Summit and CEO of Civic Enterprises John Bridgeland published an opinion piece in today’s Washington Times about the call to serve. After 9/11, Americans were encouraged and inspired to serve, but “after the war became divisive, the call to service grew quiet” he writes. Service Nation will help revive the call for citizen service.
Also check out today’s Social Capital blog post on turning 9/11 into a day of service, MyGoodDeed.org, and Service Nation.
Michael Brown and Robert Balfanz on National Service
Adding to the chorus of national service supporters this week, City Year CEO and co-founder Michael Brown, and Johns Hopkins research scientist Robert Balfanz have written an opinion piece “Volunteering to Get Tomorrow’s Dropouts on Track” published in today’s Boston Globe.
People who drop out of high school, they claim, not only give us warning signs that they are “off-track” but they can be put back on the right track if they get the support they need from trained, caring adult role models — the type of support that national service participants can offer.
Balfanz and Brown cite national service members’s desire to serve and the relatively low cost (in dollars) of supporting them.
Paul Light on what the president needs to do to strengthen national and public service
Just in time for the Service Nation Summit, Paul Light of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Serivce at NYU, just published this opinion piece in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, on what the next president needs to do in order to strengthen both national service and the public service sector.
On a side note, read the Wagner definition of public service, which I am a big fan of:
“The Wagner School sees public service as work that matters, work of public importance – wherever it happens. What does it mean for work to ‘matter?’ At one level, it means that the work of public service has an impact on others, that it touches issues of public concern, that it is motivated more by mission than by money. Public service work also ‘matters’ at another level: those of us who choose public service want our work to ‘matter’ in our lives. We choose public service careers because we want our work to reflect our values; we want careers that satisfy our need to be of service or to transform some part of the world.”
What do you think of Paul Light’s piece? What’s your definition of public service?
Service Nation Summit — Ask your questions
Do you have questions to ask of Senators McCain or Obama about national service?
At the Service Nation Summit Presidential Candidates’s Forum Sept. 11, facilitators will ask questions submitted on the Service Nation web site.
Submit your questions there, but feel free to share your questions here as well!
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