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• Senate’s Funding Recommendations for Service
  The diligent and quick folks at Voices for National Service just emailed the info below.  For the Corporation for National and Community Service FY2011 budget, the Senate recommended $60 million more than the House, but $60 million lass than the President’s request.  In the context of AmeriCorps, the Senate’s budget would add 10,000 positions next [...]
• News Round-Up: Cities of Service, TFA, and Service-Learning
  A weekly round-up of news about service, social innovation, and social change. Cities of Service As  ServeNext continues to move forward with its own plans to extend field corps members into ten cities, Cities of Service announced recently that $200,000 would be provided to ten more cities across the country, an initiative headed by mayors [...]
• The Future of Non-Profits
  The non-profit community is nearing the verge of another ground-breaking piece of legislation this summer. Last week on June 16th, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) introduced a bill aimed at strengthening the non-profit sector and its relationship with government. In the wake of the Serve America Act and on the heels of sweeping regulatory legislation concerning [...]
• What’s the deal? Benefits of our Field Corps positions
  We’re in the final stretch of recruiting applicants for our  community organizing program, Field Corps (online app closes on Tuesday, June 15 at 11:59 EST). We’ve spent time promoting the position details, but I wanted to share a bit more about the benefits.  Doing something important for the community and personal benefit are certainly not [...]
• The search is on!
  This week, we rolled out the first stages of our inaugural year of Field Corps, our community organizing program dedicated to building local, powerful grassroots networks in 10 areas around the country to advance service, Americorps, and social innovation.  We’re incredibly excited about the potential for this program, but we also need your help. We’re [...]
• Field Corps applications now up!
  Today, ServeNext is proud to announce that we are rolling out applications for our Field Corps Community Organizing program – the inaugural year of our new program that will recruit, train, and support an annual cohort of organizers.  These organizers will harness the power of grassroots action to advance service, AmeriCorps, and social innovation in [...]
• Guest Post: Reflections on last week’s service events
  The following is a guest blog post by Mary Bruce (AmeriCorps 99-00; Peace Corps 04-06): I had the opportunity to attend the ServiceNation Coalition Meeting last week and was – as always – honored to participate. ServiceNation leveraged the anniversary of the signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act not just as a [...]
• Round-up: Serve America Act Anniversary and National Volunteer Week
  April 18 through the 24th 2010 was an exciting week in the service world. It marked the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act; it was also National Volunteer Week. To get the week started President Obama made a statement highlighting the importance of national service: Whether through the [...]

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