Michelle Nunn
Apr
02
Posted by cmurphy to Change Notes, generationOn, Michelle Nunn
Friends,
The flyer a colleague sent me lists the facts:
- More than 16 million children in America are at risk of hunger. That's more than 1 in 5.
- 1 in 2 children in the City of Detroit face hunger. That's half.
Mar
27
Posted by cmurphy to Michelle Nunn, Change Notes
Friends,
When I first met President George H. W. Bush, the honorary chair of Points of Light, six years ago, I was struck by three things: his deeply felt sense that a meaningful life must include service to others, his gracious humility and the fact that he ordered dessert at lunch and encouraged all present to do the same.
Mar
21
Posted by cmurphy to Change Notes, Michelle Nunn
Friends,
I heard a story recently that reminded me of the often unexpected impact of volunteer service.
Faye Hendrix is a sales associate at the Belk department store in Fayetteville, Ga., a main-street town south of Atlanta that is in many ways like the Georgia town where I grew up. It's a community with deep roots, where neighbors don't just know each others' names, they know their aunts' and uncles' names, too. It's a town where volunteer service isn't a "movement," it's just something you do.
Mar
08
Posted by cmurphy to Michelle Nunn
Written by Michelle Nunn, CEO of the Points of Light, and republished from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Georgia’s HOPE scholarship is one of the largest merit-based college scholarship programs in the United States, but it could be so much more. By rewarding both good grades and volunteer service, the HOPE scholarship could teach the rest of the nation how to produce educated, engaged citizens who know how to give back.