All posts tagged "Civic Engagement"

Obama Launches Summer Service Campaign

  “United We Serve,” a summer-long campaign to expand the size and scope of volunteering, kicked off today with a video statement...

Obama Fires CNCS Watchdog

Audit Slams Largest AmeriCorps Program

  The nation’s largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program – the Teaching Fellows project at the City University of New York –...

First Lady Plants Two New Feet at CNCS

First Lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, Jackie Norris, is being sent to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in...

CNCS Announces New AmeriCorps Grants

The Corporation for National and Community Service’s announcement today of the winners of the 2009 grant competition brings the number of AmeriCorps...

Obama’s Swoosh Shot

How did the vice president of the world’s largest shoe company – whose primary job was to calm the uproar over Nike’s...

Service Movement Creates Opportunities for After-School

  What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility: a recognition on the part of every American that...

Youth Venture

http://www.genv.net For aspiring young social entrepreneurs, this site is a place to begin. It includes practical advice on starting and expanding a...

Eitel Withdraws Nomination to Head National Service Agency

Maria Eitel Maria Eitel, president of the Nike Foundation, has withdrawn her name from consideration as CEO of the Corporation for National...

Summer of Service Resource Center

  http://www.icicp.org/ht/d/sp/i/1254/pid/1254 Innovations in Civic Participation, a youth service think tank, developed this interactive website to give technical advice on designing Summer...

What the Serve America Law Says, and Does Not

President Obama’s signing of the Serve America Act last month did indeed mark a “huge day,” in the words of Public Allies...

CNCS Gets New Chief

The “Just Do It” mantra of Nike could soon permeate America’s national service programs. President Barack Obama has nominated Maria Eitel –...

Help Decide Who Gets Stimulus Grants

Several federal agencies are looking for peer and grant reviewers to help with the increased volume of solicitations for the stimulus funds....

National Service Set to Grow

YouthBuild Showcases a House and Its Revival

Building support: The first lady’s visit gets a reaction from Stoneman. Photo: CNCS Five young men listened intently as they gathered around...

Learning by Serving: Making a Difference Close to Home

By Melissa Etehad, 17L.A. Youth, Los Angeles One day, while watching TV, I came across a channel that showed a half-naked child...

Learning by Serving: Choosing Abstinence

New Directions for Youth Development: Community Organizing and Youth Advocacy

Edited by Sarah Deschenes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Anne Newman Jossey-Bass/Wiley 136 pages. $23.20. Subscription $85 (1 year, 4 issues). Recent achievements by community...

National Service Set to Grow

Less than three months after he took office, and seven months after a large New York send-off, much of President Barack Obama’s...

Half of Youth Say Barack Obama’s Election Makes Them Feel Hopeful

They may not have been able to vote for him, but many youths are already feeling optimistic about Barack Obama's presidency. Not...