If you watched "All Together Now," Monday's televised "Celebration of Service" tribute to President George H.W. Bush, the founding force behind the Points of Light Foundation, it was hard not to be inspired by the stories of volunteers and the fact that all four living former Presidents were...

I found myself in rare agreement with George Will when I read his column lauding Teach For America and lamenting the lapse of the organization's earmark. Over the last two decades, Teach For America has become an engine for bringing talent to struggling public schools, and...

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers' (R-KY) proposal to eliminate funding for AmeriCorps is no surprise, but wrongheaded -- even for conservatives.

Despite the bipartisan majorities that created AmeriCorps in 1993, saved it a decade later when it was last at serious risk, and enacted...

It's a scandal that in America today so many young people leave high school never to return and that about half of these kids are concentrated in a small fraction of public high schools. So I was thrilled to see that a report just released by

With hunger in America at disturbingly high levels, chances are your community is having a food drive this month, or you've thought about volunteering at a soup kitchen in the spirit of the holiday season. In many communities, however, getting that choice Thanksgiving Day serving slot may require having booked...

Veterans Day, of course, commemorates the World War I armistice that occurred on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th year with a day to honor veterans of all wars through "appropriate ceremonies." Unfortunately, for many students and workers, it's just a day off. However,...

As the days get shorter and the last of the leaves fall, summer seems far away. But this week, hundreds of experts and educators are meeting in Indianapolis at the National Conference on Summer Learning to talk about what happens to too many kids over the summer --...

As an antidote to the vitriol of the election, I have been imagining what our democracy could be if we baked civic skills into our K-12 curriculum -- if every student learned tools and tactics for working together to solve problems big and small in their own communities. Might that...

You might have missed it, but September has been a big month for the service movement, with ten new mayors unveiling city service plans to local fanfare and ten additional mayors appointing Chief Service Officers, bringing the national total of "CSOs" to 21.

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