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  • Jan 3, 2012 ServeNext on Montana NPR/YPR's Home Ground with Brian Kahn
    AmeriCorps in Montana was featured on NPR's Home Ground with Brian Kahn in December just before the FY12 Appropriations deal was reached. Brian interviewed Jono McKinney from the Montana Conservation Corps, Crissie McMullen from Food Corps, and Heather Margolis from ServeNext Montana to talk about the proposed elimination of AmeriCorps from Montana Congressman and Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor H, Denny Rehberg.
  • Dec 20, 2011 Nonprofits triumph over House Republicans in 2012 budget battle
    Nonprofit groups are in a celebratory mood after triumphing over House Republicans in a battle over federal funding for service programs. House Republicans had proposed zeroing out funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in H.R. 1, the budget proposal they passed earlier this year. But the omnibus package Congress passed last week to fund the government preserves most of the funding for CNCS programs such as AmeriCorps and Senior Corps...Heather Margolis, the Montana field organizer for ServeNext, helped organize call-ins, petitions, letter-writing campaigns and visits to congressional staff in Rehberg’s office.
  • Nov 17, 2011 Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured
    Another student [ServeNext Organizer Jordan Jones] questioned Bachmann on national service programs, such as AmeriCorps: "You've gone on record as opposing those. So just wondering, if elected president, you might make that a part of your agenda? And if you think it's a good idea, during this economy, to take away opportunities for young people to serve their country?"
  • Sep 30, 2010 Fostering the gift of time, talent
    "How can we help those in need?" Getting a better answer to this question was the chief reason people gathered at the First United Methodist Church Tuesday. People were invited to learn about ServeNext, a new organization formed to help volunteers with their community efforts.
  • Aug 18, 2010 How to Win an Online Grant Contest
    Small non-profits consistently beat out organizations with bigger budgets and more established names in online grant contests where the public decides how money is distributed. We talked to four such non-profits about their secrets for success.
  • May 1, 2010 ServeNext Covered in "The American Way to Change" by Shirley Sagawa
    In 2010, ServeNext was covered in "The American Way to Change" written by one of the foremost experts of the national service movement, Shirley Sagawa. Shirley played a key role in developing AmeriCorps in the Clinton Administration, and has continued to be a leader in the field by working with dozens of organizations as a consultant. In her book, Shirley calls ServeNext one of twenty-nine high-impact field builders.
  • Mar 22, 2010 The Pepsi Refresh Project Awards $1.3 Million to Support the Public's Favorite Ideas to Refresh the World
    The first Pepsi Refresh Grant recipients – who developed the 32 refreshing ideas voted most likely to move our communities forward – have been awarded $1.3 million from the Pepsi Refresh Project, a ground-breaking initiative designed to fund good ideas, big and small, that help refresh our world.
  • Nov 23, 2008 Arizona Republic: Service act will help unite country
    President-elect Barack Obama, the 111th Congress, our country and world face great challenges as we await Inauguration Day. The economy, energy, climate-change and education inequity: these are just a few of the profound tasks that confront us. These challenges can only be solved with the sacrifice of every American working together - Democrats and Republicans. Nothing is more important than first uniting our country. With Sen. John McCain's leadership, there's a piece of legislation the might lead the way to unity: The Serve America Act. Both McCain and Obama co-sponsored this bill during the midst of the heated presidential campaign.
    Related: Source: Arizona Republic - azcentral.com
  • Jun 9, 2008 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
    AmeriCorps alumni and ServeNext.org members ,are traveling the country by bus for the National Service Express Tour, hitting 30 cities in 60 days while holding meetings and other events to encourage AmeriCorps volunteers and alumni to put pressure on politicians to expand national service.
  • Oct 27, 2007 Georgetown Student, Friend Lobby On Behalf Of Those Who Cannot
    Deeply impacted by his time spent volunteering for AmeriCorp during a two-year leave of absence from college, Aaron Marquez, and Zach Maurin, a fellow AmeriCorp volunteer who graduated from George Washington University this year, have come together to create ServeNext, a non-profit organization lobbies on behalf of service organizations that are prohibited by law from lobbying.
  • Sep 10, 2007 A Time To Serve
    The founders were not at all optimistic about the future of the Republic. There had been only a handful of other republics in all of human history, and most were small and far away. The founders' pessimism, though, came not from history but from their knowledge of human nature. A republic, to survive, needed not only the consent of the governed but also their active participation. It was not a machine that would go of itself; free societies do not stay free without the involvement of their citizens.