Greg Propper
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Greg Propper is the Executive Director of the ServiceNation campaign
and the managing director for Be the Change, Inc.. Greg was one of the first
staff members of Be the Change, Inc., where he helped to launch the campaign
with the ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum and Summit on September
11, 2008. Prior to his role with Be the Change, Inc., Greg was an advocate
and organizer, helping to lead the "Save AmeriCorps" campaign of 2003 that
restored cut funding from the federally sponsored national service program.
He is a former Dutko Fellow and has also been employed as the issue advocacy
coordinator for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the
national mobilization coordinator for City Year, Inc. Greg has worked with
the Appleseed Foundation in Washington, D.C. and with the New York City Law
Department juvenile prosecution division in the Bronx, N.Y. Greg is a member
of the board of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public
Service at Tufts University. He holds a BA with high honors from Tufts
University and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He is
currently based in Los Angeles, where he oversees ServiceNation's growing
relationship with the entertainment community.

Blog Entries by Greg Propper

Service: More Important than Ever

Posted April 21, 2011 | 15:40:35 (EST)

Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law an historic piece of legislation, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The Act, which earned broad bipartisan support in the US Congress, authorized the largest increase in support for national service since the Great Depression. Most notably, in...

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Save Service: The Future of AmeriCorps

Posted March 5, 2011 | 12:11:47 (EST)

In the new film bearing his name, we watch as the protagonist, Rango, journeys from being an aspiring, swashbuckling hero dreaming big in a terrarium to living the real thing in a Wild West town called Dirt, where he has to stand up for a whole community of desert creatures....

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Putting Tens of Thousands of Americans Into Service

Posted April 7, 2010 | 17:10:27 (EST)

April 21st marks the first anniversary of one of the greatest bipartisan efforts of the Obama Administration -- an effort to alleviate our most pressing national problem: the Great Recession.

Nearly one year ago, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act became law. Named for the great Senator who championed...

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