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Obama spoke to some 5,000 graduates and their families at the ceremony on the National Mall. She agreed to be their speaker after students, faculty and staff met her challenge to complete 100,000 hours of community service.
"I have one more request to make of you, one more challenge," Obama said during her speech. "Keep going. Keep giving. Keep engaging."
Thank you -- President Knox, faculty, graduates-to-be and most honored guests. President Knox thank you for that overly generous introduction. And thank you for embodying servant leadership and for embracing a vision for Wesleyan that restores to higher education its fundamental mandate to cultivate citizen and servant leaders for the world.
Most of the last year’s business headlines have featured financial bailouts, ethical lapses, Ponzi schemes, executive bonuses and a general erosion of confidence in corporate America.
Yet at the same time, corporations have shown extraordinary innovation in how they are leveraging their unique assets to generate positive change in communities.
Increasingly, corporations are seeing not only the philanthropic value of giving back, but also the business value of integrating their community investment into their business practices.
Read the results of the 2010 Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Survey to learn more.
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On the one year anniversary of Congress's passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, we can declare victory on the battle of ideas. Nearly two years ago, Candidate Obama embraced the agenda of social innovation, he later translated its principles into his Administration and the Congress responded to his call to pass a truly innovative Serve America Act.
Maybe Woody Allen had it wrong.
Maybe 90 percent of life is NOT just showing up because, every day, in countless ways, individuals, organizations and corporations around this country don't just show up; they show up and give back.
April 18-24 is National Volunteer Week, an apt occasion to pause and celebrate the millions of Americans who have seen the needs in their communities -- financial hardship and poverty, a stubborn high school dropout rate, ongoing threats to our environment -- and asked, "what can I do to help?"
The appointments come as the Corporation marks the one-year anniversary of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act – landmark legislation that calls for a historic expansion of
The release of this important figure comes just before National Volunteer Week, which takes place April 18 - 24, 2010. This year Independent Sector and Points of Light Institute are partnering to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation.
About GenerationOn:
GenerationOn mobilizes the energy and compassion of young people, beginning at an early age, to discover their power to solve real world challenges. Through volunteering opportunities and education programs that instill a lifelong commitment to service, GenerationOn inspires young people to make their mark on the world.
GenerationOn is the
With that, a stage hand crawled through some fake fog and pulled a rip cord that sent an enclosure of white balloons skyward. Sure enough, volunteers had arranged over 115,000
Washington, DC – The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Patrick Corvington by unanimous consent today to be the new Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Corvington, a recognized expert on nonprofit management and leadership, joins the agency at a time marked by unprecedented social need and support for national service.
The "Give a Day. Get a Disney Day" program began in January and aims to both celebrate and inspire volunteers by providing a one-day ticket to a Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort theme park to the first million people who sign up and complete a day of volunteer service.
Instead, Washington, 22, and 26 fellow students from the university's Oxford, Miss., campus joined about 3,000 others for volunteer community service in Chicago. Saturday, they spruced up a South Side elementary school where 97% of the students are low-income, according to Chicago Cares, which coordinated the effort.