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See You in New Orleans for NCVS 2011

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Today in New York upon the conclusion of the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, which drew a record attendance of 5,000 people, Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Michelle Nunn, CEO of Points of Light Institute and Co-Founder of the HandsOn Network, were joined by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to announce that the 2011 National Conference will take place from June 6-8, 2011 in New Orleans!

With the Gulf Coast reeling from its second economic blow in five years, it was the only choice.

Both HandsOn Network and CNCS have have a strong presence there due to recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast continues to be a priority for America’s volunteer and service community because of the BP oil spill.

“Our volunteer network has such deep-seated ties to New Orleans and the entire region from our Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, we all feel passionately about helping to rejuvenate the communities of the Gulf Coast,” said Nunn.  “Bringing the conference to New Orleans is the perfect way to spotlight residents’ needs and how volunteers can help address them.”

“Perhaps no other city in America understands and appreciates the power of community service and the value of voluntourism to a community,” said Mayor Landrieu.  “Our city, indeed our entire region, would not be as far along in our post-Katrina recovery without the time, talent and treasure of all those who were so generous in helping us in our time of great need.  It is a distinct privilege to welcome this gathering to our city, where we have created a new roadmap for community service, and where the good work continues to this day, and will continue well into the future.”

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2010 Corporate Engagement Awards of Excellence

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

by Neil Mallon Bush, Chairman, Points of Light Institute Board of Directors

We are at a critical moment of need and opportunity for service in our communities.

While the economy has started to grow again, the downturn has caused hardship for millions of Americans.

Yet in these tough times, the momentum for service has never been stronger.

Volunteering is on the rise and organizations and corporations are redefining service and embracing social responsibility.

Given our economic climate, the Points of Light Institute is very excited to honor companies that represent best-in-class employee volunteer and engagement programs, who are redefining service and embracing social responsibility.

Since its inception in 1993, the Points of Light Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence has been recognized as one of the most prestigious awards programs honoring outstanding employee volunteer programs.

More than 60 companies have been honored for their overall employee volunteer efforts.

I’d like to share a bit about this year’s Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence honorees.

AT&T

AT&T’s commitment to volunteerism dates back over 100 years to Alexander Graham Bell.

Bell was the first member of the Telephone Pioneers of America, which was formed to give employees a way to unite and support the community.

Since then, the AT&T Pioneers has grown into one of the largest industry-sponsored volunteer organizations, with nearly 325,000 members.

Last year, the company launched “AT&T Cares” – a company-wide volunteer initiative designed to encourage employees to engage in community service that is meaningful to them and their communities.

In 2009, AT&T Pioneers and employees donated more than 8.5 million hours to community outreach activities – worth over $176 million.

Campbell’s Soup

Campbell’s Soup has a long-standing commitment communities in which they live and work.

They are committed to nourishing neighbors by providing volunteers to nonprofit organizations and leveraging the unique skills of employees through the Nourishing Our Neighbors program.

Campbell’s strives to couple skills-based volunteering, financial contributions and in-kind giving to provide well-rounded support and impact with local nonprofit organizations and residents of these communities.

In the year since the launch of the Nourishing Our Neighbors initiative, U.S. employees logged more than 18,000 volunteer hours, benefiting over 200 organizations.

Dollars for Doers grants quadrupled since the change was implemented.

Participation in the company’s annual week of service, Make a Difference Week, increased 40% in 2009.

Intel

Intel strives to operate with uncompromising integrity and believes that their business success depends on their continuing ability to be a trusted, responsible, open and engaged corporate citizen. Intel employees engage with communities through the Intel Involved volunteer program and community leadership activities.

The “Intel Involved” program encourages employees to share their expertise and enthusiasm with communities through volunteerism and Intel employees spend thousands of hours mentoring young people, providing technical expertise, serving on task forces, and participating in community service projects.

Through the company’s skills-based volunteering initiative, employees apply their specialized skills in law, marketing, IT and lean manufacturing practices to benefit schools and non-profit organizations.

The Intel Education Service Corps program sends small teams of high-performing employees to developing countries to collaborate with a NGO to deploy the Intel®-powered classmate PCs.  To date, this program has reached more than 15,000 students in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Kenya, and Vietnam.

Old National Bank

From humble beginnings,  Old National Bank has grown to its current position with more than 160 banking centers and 2,800 associates.

Despite their growth, they have never wavered from their original focus on community.

Old National Bank’s commitment begins with President & CEO Bob Jones and the Old National leadership team, who empower associates to donate up to two paid volunteer hours a month through the company’s “ONe Community” program.

Last year, Old National associates donated nearly 80,000 total hours in support of more than 2,000 organizations. Associate volunteers are recognized for their efforts on the company Intranet site, and those with 25 hours or more of service each year join the “Volunteer Honor Roll” in Old National’s annual Community Investment Report.

In addition, a ONe Community Team Award is given each quarter to the associate team that best exemplifies the meaning of community care and involvement. Quarterly winners receive a $500 donation to the non-profit organization of their team’s choice, and an overall annual team award winner receives a $1,000 donation.

I hope you’ll join me in congratulating all of our Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence honorees.

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Ruby Dee’s Reframing Service

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

For countless hours of my life, I’ve listened to my mom and dad’s tales of protest. In the 60s & 70s they took their voices to the streets, marching proudly down Pennsylvania Avenue, demanding that the government do something about war, civil rights, labor laws… a variety of issues.

As I grew up, I often wondered what had happened to that spirit of protest. What it would take to get tens of thousands of people to drop what they were doing, pick up those protest signs and take to the streets?

Listening to the stories emerging from the opening plenary at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service last night in Radio City Music Hall, I realized that question had been resoundingly answered. Although the night had many highlights and amazing speakers (The Daily Show’s John Oliver was hysterical and tremendously genuine), the one who gave me my answer, in a towering and often thunderous voice, was the diminutive Ruby Dee.

Serving as both the evening’s moral compass and the movement’s timeless anchor, Ruby gave voice to a whisper in the hearts of all who work in service. My mother’s time was defined by protest, mine is defined by volunteering…and as Ruby succinctly pointed out for me, they are one and the same thing.

Reframing service as protest – wow! Seriously WOW.

The whole evening came into focus. The event’s stories of courage, of unyielding spirit and faith washed over me as living illustrations of continual protest. A child’s idea that NYC Firemen take to the roads of America to show their appreciation for the nation’s support post 9/11, Shannon Lambert’s refusal to let a traumatic event keep her from reaching out to others who shared her pain, representatives from Target and JPMorgan relating their companies deep commitment to service, a young girl’s conviction that choosing to live a simpler life means more for everyone else… all of these acts, every single one… are acts of protest.

Ruby is on to something. My mother marched against the war in Vietnam, my dad was constantly marching on a picket line (that’s where he was on the night of my birth for Heaven’s sake!). They believed in the power of protest so fervently that they took off work and drove hundreds of miles to make their voice heard. But with so many challenges facing us today, what is it exactly that we’re protesting?

I think Ruby would say our protest is against the thinking that things can’t change for the better; because every hour of service we give defies that thinking. She’d say that the protest is against the belief that our problems are too immense, too entrenched, too strong to be overcome.

Her voice rang out in clear protest to that belief …. “The world is wrong; let’s right it. The battle is hard; let’s fight it. The road is rough; let’s clear it. The future vast; don’t fear it. Is faith asleep; let’s wake it. Today is ours; let’s take it!

The opening plenary of the conference told us that we are protesting with every extra hour of time we have. What would it take to get hundreds of thousands of us to drop what we were doing and take to the streets in protest? It would take hope. It would take an audacious belief in our own power of protest to bring about change; and we have that audacious belief in spades. There are millions of us who protest daily, weekly…and even on holidays. We believe in protest as fervently as those who came before us. We may not be carrying a homemade cardboard sign of protest, but that’s only because our hands are busy reaching out to others.

Reframing service as protest – well said Ruby Dee. I’ll gladly embrace that definition.

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TAG! You’re It!

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Tag is a game that brings back memories of running willy-nilly around the playground, chasing after your friends.

If I’m remembering correctly, there wasn’t much reasoning to the whole thing, no points scored, no winning…. just trying your hardest to tag your friends …and maybe that cute boy in the 4th grade.

Now let’s jump ahead to today.

Adults aren’t really known for playing tag… come to think of it haven’t seen many kids playing it either.

But what if we had a TAG revival ….brought it into the 21st century, jazzed it up a bit…and threw in a healthy dose of social conscience?

Welcome to Service Tag!

As the first of the Get HandsOn challenges, Service Tag will be the world’s largest game of virtual tag,and in this game the way to win is by doing good.

Once “You’re It,” you’ll get into the game by tagging anyone you know who is doing good things in your community – anything from setting up a volunteer tutoring service for the young students in your neighborhood, to volunteering at your local HandsOn Action Center… whatever you can do to take action that makes positive change.

Playing TAG also means being part of the Get HandsOn Community.

Through the GetHandsON.com portal you can meet up with other Service Leaders, get great ideas for service projects, and bookmark that TAG Leaderboard page to see where you rank on the list of Tag Masters!

The community interacts with Facebook and Twitter, so all your friends and followers will see the good work you’re doing.

Try it right now – go ahead – get out that smart phone and text yours, or a friend’s email, to … or head over to www.GetHandsOn.com to start tagging!

Look, it’s time you used that phone for something other than watching the latest Lady Ga-Ga video (don’t even try to tell me you don’t have “Alejandro” on your phone – you know you do).

Use it to bring the game of TAG back to life – and make the game MEAN something.

What are you waiting for? Tag, YOU’RE IT… now show us what you can do.

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It’s Up To You

Monday, June 28th, 2010

By Michelle Nunn, CEO, Points of Light Institute

We stand at a moment that brings decades of leadership to fruition.

Thousands of individuals have worked to bring volunteer participation to historic high thresholds, to pass unprecedented legislation that expands national service, and creates new platforms for investment in our civic infrastructure.

Many of you have been a part of the legion’s that have created this moment, but whether you have been a part of the history of this movement, it’s destiny is and will be up to us.

Realizing the fullness of this moment’s potential is in our hands.

Together we will determine whether this moment of civic promise is fulfilled.

As a sector, we need to think about:

  • The innovative ways that social media and technology are being used to rapidly mobilize volunteers in innovative ways;
  • The emerging global service movement, with a proposed International Service Impact Fund to increase capacity. Global volunteerism is  pulled towards entrepreneurial and innovative efforts as the number of volunteers and local organizations around the world increases;
  • The Millennials, who are just entering the workforce, are poised to become the great service generation. They are global, service minded, and seek to make a difference. They are tech-savvy.  They are the next largest generation after the baby boomers, so they will have strength in numbers to apply to causes that resonate with their passions.

We must demonstrate that we can extend the scale of our work to encompass hundreds of thousands of additional national service members and we must embrace millions of new volunteers.

We must work to ensure that through this  extended capacity, we demonstrate that service is a central strategy in addressing our national and international priorities.

I believe that we must continue to both demonstrate and document how service is a strategy for healthy communities and a strategy for solutions to tough challenges.

I think it is important that we reaffirm that we know that service and civic participation are core to vibrant democracies, and that civic networks and social capital are at the heart of strong communities and fundamental to individual development.

We know that service and the quality of empathy are fundamental to human emotional and intellectual human development- it makes us smarter, healthier, happier, and live longer.

We know that service to others is the primary shared spiritual value across all faith traditions.

Service is what makes us fully human.

As a service community we must continue to expand the research that makes these dimensions of civic participation evident and well understood.

I believe that as a service community, we must also embrace a broader understanding of service and civic engagement.

Individuals don’t think about how they create change in the narrow silos that our nonprofit community often acts within.

People think about how they can use their time, their passions, their skills, their purchasing power, and their voice to create change.

President Bush 41 said that

“We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light…We all have something to give. So, if you know how to read, find someone who can’t. If you’ve got a hammer, find a nail. If you’re not hungry, not lonely, not in trouble, seek out someone who is. Join the community of conscience. Do the hard work of freedom. And that will define the state of our Union… What government can do alone is limited, but the potential of the American people knows no limits.”

President Obama said last fall at our Presidential Forum in Houston,

“In the end, when it comes to the challenges we face, the need for action always exceeds the limits of government. While there’s plenty that government can do and must do to keep our families safe, and our planet clean, and our markets free and fair, there’s a lot that government can’t — and shouldn’t — do. And that’s where active, engaged citizens come in. That’s the purpose of service in this nation.”

And his point is one I want to emphasize today: that “service isn’t separate from our national priorities, or secondary to our national priorities — it’s integral to achieving our national priorities. It’s how we will meet the challenges of our time.”

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service kicks off in New York City today. Visit the website for highlights and updates from the nation’s largest, annual gathering on service and civic engagement!

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Restoration

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

by Sheila Weinberger Cope, Social Media Volunteer, Hands On Nashville

For me, what is most memorable about the May 1st flood in Nashville is the text message I received from HandsOn Nashville on the night of May 2nd.

The message let me know that HandsOn Nashville was officially in emergency management mode. We all needed to act and act fast.

When that message arrived, I was on a gurney in an emergency room with what turned out to be one nasty case of pneumonia.

My situation didn’t matter.  I tweeted and I posted about the disaster right then and there all the while with nurses doing their thing to ensure that I could breathe again.

With those tweets and posts, I put out the call for volunteers, tried to soothe frayed nerves and give hope to those who had none.

Even as sick as I was, my adrenalin kicked in and I became determined to do any and everything I could to help the city and organization that I love absolutely.

Before volunteering to do social media work for Hands On Nashville, I was, in a way, lost.

Early in my career, I was a publicist, a journalist and a photographer in New York City.

I went on to practice law and led intellectual property litigation if Silicon Valley.

Most recently, I opened and ran a yarn store that was, incidentally, very successful.

I sold the yarn store in the summer 2007

It was right after selling the shop that when my life changed completely.

In January of 2008, I was diagnosed with MS.

In response to the news, I floundered, grieved and struggled with what having MS would do to the rest of my life.

Always having been an active, go-getting, afraid of nothing, overachiever, I suddenly felt like MS took all of that away from me.

Last winter, when I saw that Hands On Nashville was looking for a social networker, I jumped at the chance.

Here was something I could do from home (my feet are totally numb so I’m not allowed to drive anymore) and something I hoped would finally give my life a purpose again.

I responded to HON’s search for (and I am quoting!) “a social networking guru” willing to devote four hours a week to posting and tweeting on their behalf.

After I signed up, I went home and then worried whether I could really do it and do it well.

Trust me when I say that in my wildest dreams, I could never have conceived of what this “little” project would become.

If I had, it probably would have scared me to death and sent me running to bury my head in the sand. But luckily, managing Hands On Nashville’s social media efforts has turned out to be my favorite volunteer project that I have ever participated in.

(And being over 40, that’s really saying something!)

I. LOVE. WHAT. I. DO.

I love it because I get to work so closely with nine of my heroes.

Those nine heroes are the people that run Hands On Nashville.

Of those nine, only four are actually full time employees.

It boggles my mind and leaves me awestruck at the end of every day.

If anyone is worthy of being a hero, it’s those nine good people.

Another reason I love what I do is because from where I sit, I get to see the big picture and the small ones too.

Whatever cynicism I had on May 1st, when the Nashville flooding started, is all gone now.

Watching, reading and hearing so many stories from so many amazing, kind, generous, unselfish, enthusiastic and devoted people has been an incredible experience.

The wonderful people of Nashville give me overwhelming hope.

They restore my faith in humanity.

They make me more proud than ever to be Nashville born and bred.

I am truly blessed beyond measure.

No words could sufficiently express my gratitude to Hands On Nashville, to volunteers from everywhere and to the 25,255 online fans and followers.

My focus now is to keep the disaster response momentum going even though life seems to be getting back to normal and enthusiasm understandably starts to wane.

It’s a challenge but I think I’m going the right direction.

I believe I‘ve landed where I was meant to be, doing what I was meant to do.

This project has restored me.

I’m finally ready to go back to living my life without letting my MS limit me.

My friends keep telling me how wonderful it is to have “me” back.

Sheila Weinberger Cope will be recognized at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service as today’s Daily Point of Light Award winner. Neil Bush, Chairman of the Points of Light Institute Board of Directors will present her award at a HandsOn Network Affiliate luncheon.  Her award will be accepted on her behalf by Brian Williams, Executive Director of Hands On Nashville.

In the 58 days since the disaster, Hands On Nashville has recruited 16,422 volunteers to serve in 925 project sites and contributed 67,857 volunteer hours to flood relief and recovery efforts.  Their extraordinary social media campaign, led by Sheila, has helped galvanize 25,000 plus on-line fans.

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Join the NCVS Cause Mob!

Friday, June 25th, 2010

by Jared Paul, Founder, A Good Idea

NCVS “Volunteering is…” Cause Mob
June 30th, 2010
New York City
53rd Street between 6th & 7th
Gather at 12:50p.m.
Flash Mob at 1:00 – 1:20 p.m.

My name is Jared Paul and I’m the founder of a San Francisco nonprofit called A Good Idea (AGI).

For the past two years, AGI has served as a vehicle for positive social change ideas that connect people in need with people who want to help in our community.

Many of the ways that we connect people is through creative service events that empower and inspire individuals to get involved in a way that matters to them.

With service and volunteerism being at the very core of AGI, I believe a conference such as the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering & Service, where volunteers and nonprofits alike come together to learn about effective best practices in social service and to connect with one another is a wonderful and much needed event for our sector.

Upon hearing about the conference, I started thinking about creative “Goods Ideas” that AGI could host that would shake things up a bit in NYC.

I reached out to my friend and co-founder of Open Action, John Brennan, to gauge his interest in putting together a flash mob, or more appropriately for this conference, a cause mob.

If you aren’t familiar with a flash mob, it is when a large group of people assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, and then quickly disperse.

They’ve been done in , on the , and then there’s the .

While flash mobs are usually “pointless”, cause mobs are exactly the opposite.

A cause mob still provides the space for people to come together for an unusual event, but unlike the flash mob, these events have a point and as the name suggests, usually support a cause.

Having hosted successful similar events in San Francisco such as our Intentional Acts of Kindness event, where volunteers come together to simply do nice things for random strangers, I believe NYC and this conference are a perfect setting for a cause mob.

So after doing some brainstorming with John and members of our respective teams, we’ve decided to host our own cause mob/freeze out at the official end of the conference on Wednesday, June 30th.

On Tuesday and Wednesday during the conference, you will see a few folks wearing white t-shirts with “Volunteering is ______” written on the shirts.

Next to the word “is” will be a list of adjectives that represent our feelings about volunteering.

To me, volunteering is “sexy”, “smart”, and “fun”…but what does volunteering mean to you?

Well, you’ll have a chance to tell the world as we’ll be handing out sheets of paper with the “Volunteering is ______” written on it and each participant will fill in the blank with their own adjective.

Then, from 1:00 – 1:20p.m. on Wednesday, June 30th, we’ll all come together and freeze, holding up our signs for people to read.

We hope everyone joins us for what should be a fun, unique event in the name of volunteerism!

Click on the map below to enlarge it and see where we’ll be.

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Change Points: Celebrating Service by Getting Hands On

Friday, June 25th, 2010

What better way to celebrate The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service and its theme of “It’s Up to YOU” than by engaging in service?

Over the next few days leading up to conference, more than 1,000 community members, corporate volunteers and attendees are taking part in service projects across the New York metropolitan area. All the projects focus on environmental sustainability.

Volunteers at the Euclid 500 project on June 26 will build a greenhouse, planter boxes and trellises on a lot acquired by Euclid Garden, a nonprofit in East New York. The fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the Euclid Garden will supply a local food bank.

At the JetBlue Cool Roofs project in Queens, volunteers earlier this week coated the roof of the Community Environmental Center. This effort is part of Mayor Bloomberg’s promise to coat rooftops white to help meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

In upper Manhattan at Inwood Hill Park, the last natural forest and salt marsh in Manhattan, JPMorgan Chase employees and community volunteers will be weeding, cleaning, and planting new ground cover on June 27.

All the projects are supported by New York Cares, which is our HandsOn action center in the city; by the NYC Parks Department, and by the NYC Housing Authority.

Sponsors for the overall projects include Pfizer, The Coca-Cola Company, JetBlue Airways and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, with JPMorgan Chase, Repair the World, and Con Edison sponsoring specific projects.

For a full list of service events, please click here.

Yours in service,

Michelle Nunn
CEO, Points of Light Institute

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By Your Example You Lift Us All

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

by Michelle Nunn, CEO, Points of Light Institute

When he was 14 years old, David Sanchez was on the way to his after-school restaurant job when he saw a homeless man holding a “Will Work for Food” sign.

Later, David wanted to give him his tips, but he never saw the man again. “That experience bothered me,” he says, and motivated him to launch Job-Link Racine in Wisconsin to help homeless and at-risk teens find work.

Since 2008, David, now a high school senior, has taught readiness training to more than 300 teens, secured interviews for 60, and helped 30 land jobs in a tough economy.

He also donates bus tokens and work clothes.

Thanks to high school senior Thanh Pham, and the Empower Our Youth program that she started, more than 400 students have learned to defend themselves against date rape and domestic violence.

Thanh, 17, founded the nonprofit two years ago to fund the classes at inner-city Boston schools.

In five years, Texan Justin Churchman, 17, has built 15 houses for families who live in cardboard homes along the El Paso–Juarez border.

As a volunteer for Casas por Cristo, he has recruited more than 75 volunteers and raised $43,000.

These exceptional teenagers were among the Parade All America Service Team award winners honored June 23 at a White House reception.

Fifteen high school students from across the nation were chosen for their outstanding service contributions to their communities in economics, the environment, education, community, and health.

Among them they have created tutoring programs, led food drives, reduced the carbon footprint of their schools, raised money to educate orphaned girls in Rwanda, and much more.

Vice President Joseph Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid tribute to these young service leaders at the reception.

“I admire all of you,” said Biden. “You decided to make a difference, and you did it when no one was looking … By your example, you lift us all.”

“These young people are just staggering; they have phenomenal talent and phenomenal commitment,” said Duncan. “They are what I call social entrepreneurs. They saw a challenge and they just fixed it; they just went to work.”

Parade magazine partnered with the national youth-service organization the LEAGUE to select the All America Service Team members.

The LEAGUE is a school and online system for service learning, with Learning to Give as its curriculum for teaching K-12 philanthropy, and Points of Light Institute is extremely pleased to announce that it intends to add the program resources of the LEAGUE to its portfolio.

These resources will increase the capacity of Points of Light and its youth service division generationOn to inspire, equip, and mobilize young people to take action that changes the world.

In particular, these resources will add to their ability to reach youth and to engage schools in creating a culture of service starting in the earliest grades.

The leading Learning to Give program meets education standards in all 50 states, and teaches kids the power of service and giving.

It will be an extraordinary complement to the array of programs and resources offered by generationOn.

The added power of the LEAGUE programs in 700 schools, its service coach model, the Learning to Give curriculum, and its Parade All America High School Team Service Awards will help generationOn realize a truly comprehensive approach to improving schools and leveraging service learning to improve the academic and life success of students.

At next week’s National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New York City, Points of Light will announce new and innovative plans to reach and transform youth and schools across the country, bringing the best resources and models forward for schools to use and replicate across the nation.

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