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  • Dec 2, 2010 ServeNext Organizing Book Drive to benefit Chicago Public Schools
    ServeNext Chicago is dedicated to making participation in the book drive simple for local businesses and public institutions. On December 11th, ServeNext Chicago is hosting a kick-off event at St Paul's United Church of Christ from 10am-noon. After this event, volunteers in ServeNext T-shirts will go into the community to place blue, 17" x 11" x 9" boxes with the ServeNext logo and a flyer (explaining the book drive to business and community organization patrons,) for the book drive at participating locations.
  • 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 27, 2010 ServeNext Bay Area Kickoff Event
    On Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 nonprofit leaders from across the Bay Area will gather for the official kick-off of ServeNext Bay Area. The Bay Area was selected as one of ten areas by ServeNext.org to build a local grassroots network of service stakeholders for the purpose of advocating for the expansion of national service and promoting service as a solution for addressing America's most pressing problems to key decision makers. The Bay Area was selected because of its long history of community service and prominent Members of Congress such as Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee who have significant influence on service issues and funding.
  • 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.