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  • 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.
  • Jun 27, 2007 Dodd, Obama to make campaign stops
    On Tuesday, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd will be in Burlington stumping for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he won't have Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Paul Simon with him.
  • May 9, 2007 Service: a corps campaign issue
    PRESIDENTIAL candidates know the value of volunteers. Visit any of the campaign headquarters in New Hampshire, or call on the phone, and you will likely be greeted not by a six-figure consultant, but by a young idealist who believes his or her candidate is the best hope for the country's future, and is giving time and effort to further that cause.

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