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Creative Community Needs Assessment Ideas

Monday, October 18th, 2010

There are many methods you can use to identify needs in your community.

Here are just a few creative ideas:

Mind Mapping

  • Draw your map (issue, root causes and effects on individuals and community).
  • Consider the following questions:

-What are the issues facing your community?
-What are the root causes of this problem?
-What are the effects on the individuals and the community?

  • Brainstorm project ideas.
  • Evaluate and prioritize the project ideas.
  • Focus on your top idea.

Conduct a Survey

  • Ask young people what their greatest concerns are.
  • Give them a list and have them rank their concerns.

Hold a Community Forum

  • Have an open microphone to share community problems/dreams.

Interview Senior Citizens

  • Ask senior citizens about societal changes (for the best/worst). What are their greatest fears in the community? What are they proud of in your hometown?

Three Wishes

  • Throughout the week, ask people what they would wish for (given unlimited power/resources) if they were granted three wishes for their community.
  • Keep a list of the dreams people share.

Watch the News

  • What stories leave you feeling disturbed or unsettled? Cut out articles in the newspaper that make you sad or angry.

Utopian Towns

  • Think of all the places you’ve been. What is your favorite city to visit? Why? How is that different from your hometown?

I Have a Dream

  • Read Martin Luther King’s well-known speech.
  • Think about your own personal/community dreams, and write them down somewhere.

Group Goals

  • Does your town have a set of goals? What about your school/organization/neighborhood?
  • Research and find out what the groups around you are trying to do.
  • Look around – What special events are going on around town? What organizations/ businesses/schools are really struggling to reach their goals or keep up with society?

Ask Your Legislators

  • Find out key issues at the forefront of the national agenda. What are the serious dangers that face our country and our world?

Sixty-Minute Search

  • Get a street map of your community, divide up the territory, and have group members search their area for needed improvements. Mark the “hot spots” on each map and discuss area needs.

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How To Engage Others in Social Action

Friday, October 8th, 2010

So… you want to get others involved in a social change effort that’s important to you?

First ask yourself why your friends, family, or neighbors should care about your passion.

Having trouble thinking about how to answer that?

Think about the most meaningful service you have been involved with in the past.

What made it so memorable?

What is motivating you to serve now and in what ways is your current project similar to your most memorable service experience?

Tell that story.

That story will inspire others to join you in what you’re doing now.

All the reasons you want to take action and create change can motivate others, too.

Before you can begin telling your story and recruiting supporters, be sure you’ve thought through who you need,  what you want them to do and when you want them to do it.

Once you’re ready to tell a compelling story and you have the who, what and when defined, you can gain supporters and recruit volunteers in a variety of different ways.

Here are a few quick ideas:

Make personal appeals / one-on-one requests.

Post flyers and pass out brochures.

Visit classes or weekly meetings of the groups you want to involve.

And (Oh, Hai!!!) don’t forget the internet!

Use your Facebook page, Twitter, online forums, bulletin boards and/or your blog to tell people about your project.

Traditional media is also an option.

Try sending out media alerts to newspaper or radio stations.

Word-of-mouth is one of your best tools, so spread the message!

Remember . . . think beyond your group of friends or the people you see every day.

Are you ready?

Be the leader you’ve been waiting for.

We’ll be here cheering you on!

October 23rd is Make A Difference Day, the largest, annual day of service. You can help by engaging others to make the biggest difference ever!

  • Spread the Word
  • Create a Project
  • Find a Project
  • Get Resources
  • Share Your Story

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Teaching Kids by Doing Good

Friday, October 1st, 2010

This week NBC is hosted Education Nation, a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. We’ve participated by sharing resources for volunteering in schools. Here’s the last post in this week’s series.

Did you know that you can teach kids about math, science, language arts and other academic subjects by giving them an opportunity to serve others?

Creating a community garden is a great way to teach children important principles of math and science, while at the same time sharing lessons about the environment and health.

Language arts skills like composition and writing can be learned by asking kids to visit a local senior center and take oral histories from the residents they meet.

This teaching and learning approach, integrating community service with academic study, enriches learning, teaches civic responsibility, and strengthens communities.

It’s commonly known as service learning.

Service-learning is distinct from traditional concepts of volunteerism and community service in that it is directly linked to curricular objectives, bringing the real-world into the classroom and the classroom into the real world.

Service-learning is not an add-on or extra component of classroom instruction. Instead, service-learning wraps community service and learning together to form one coherent goal.

Service-learning offers powerful lifelong benefits.

Participants learn responsibility, leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

They experience greater self-respect, character development and self discipline, increased motivation and engagement in studies, more tolerance, a broader perspective, and improved academic success.

Student reflection is a large component of service-learning because reflection allows students to comprehend changes they made through service and academic study.

You can integrate service-learning into your volunteer work with young people by leading lessons or tutoring sessions that combine community service with learning.

To learn more about service-learning, visit generationON and find lesson plans you can download and use.

To find a volunteer project working with young people, visit HandsOn Network.

For more ways to get involved in schools, visit NBC’s Education Nation site.

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Tips for Volunteers Working in Schools

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

This week NBC is hosting Education Nation, a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America and we’re participating by sharing resources for volunteering in schools.

Whether you are a beginner or a pro at working with children, here are a few tips to help everyone feel more comfortable.

Before you volunteer in a school, you can benefit by observing a classroom teacher, club leader, or coach’s interaction with students.

How does the teacher organize material?

How does the teacher react to disruption and misbehavior?

What language and gestures does the teacher use to get points across?

Observation will help you learn successful strategies for connecting with the students.

When you begin working with students, remember these basic tips:

  • Have a set goal and routine from day one and stick to it. Students will recognize if you are not prepared or if you change your course.
  • Remain in charge. Do not let the students take control of a situation.
  • If appropriate, discourage and reprimand bad behavior.
  • If appropriate, reward achievements and good behavior.
  • Reflect and Revise. Consider how well your strategies work and how they can improve for next time.
  • Remain flexible. Sometimes something unexpected will happen; do not let it ruin your experience or your goals.
  • Be sure to always follow the school’s rules and procedures.

Boundaries

As a volunteer, you are an important part of a student’s life. Schools and districts often have rules and policies for appropriate interaction with students.

Some schools discourage personal interaction such as hugging or pats on the back.

While these actions may seem harmless, an outside observer may perceive them differently.

You should always check with the principal/teacher to make sure you fully understand the rules.

Discipline

Remain open with your students and let them know what is appropriate and what behavior you will not tolerate.

Classroom teachers often create a system for misbehavior.

Learn what school officials do with misbehaving students and follow the school’s procedures.

Safety

It is essential to know procedures for dealing with potentially harmful situations that affect safety and wellbeing of students.

Before you begin volunteering, know where you can access a first aid kit and where the nurse’s office is located.

Depending on your specific volunteer role, you may be asked to be CPR certified. Many community centers offer free or cheap trainings.

You should also understand school procedures for fire, severe weather, and other harmful situations.

Confidentiality

Schools have strict confidentiality rules when it comes to students.

Don’t discuss the student, his/her work, achievement record, or any other personal information with anyone but the student’s teacher or principal.

You can of course, talk to others about an interesting detail or an exciting moment you experienced while volunteering; just leave out the name of the student.

Physical, Mental, Sexual Abuse

If a student tells you of any harmful incident that happened to him/her or anyone around them, you must report this to a teacher or principal.

The teacher/principal will report the information to the correct person.

Confidentiality is extremely important.

If a student wishes to tell you something, let them know that he/she can trust you, but do not promise to keep everything a secret; you may need to retell the story to a proper authority.

Do not take matters into your own hands and do not approach the alleged abuser.

Diversity

Schools contain a collection of students from diverse backgrounds and circumstances.

As a volunteer, you should prepare yourself to work with students from different backgrounds and families.

Students often have set value and belief systems taught to them by their families and guardians.

(Types of values include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political) values, social values, and aesthetic values.)

Schools are a safe place to exchange ideas and concepts.

It is not a volunteer’s place to attempt to correct or change a student’s beliefs that are otherwise not harmful to him/her, you, or others.

If a student disrespects a classroom’s diversity, it is appropriate to teach him/her why their words and actions are harmful.

Remember that diversity challenges values, adds perspective, and supports growth and development.

You may find students eager to learn about those different from themselves.

It’s healthy to support curiosity, understanding, and compassion.

It is important to respect and learn from each other.

“We must work together, learn together, live together, serve together. On the forge of common enterprise, Americans of all backgrounds can hammer out a common identity. We see it today in the United States military, in the Peace Corps, in AmeriCorps. Wherever people of all races and backgrounds come together in a shared endeavor and get a fair chance, we do just fine. With shared values and meaningful opportunities and honest communications and citizen service, we can unite a diverse people in freedom and mutual respect.”

–President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 27, 1998

For more information, visit HandsOn Network’s Education Nation site.

For more ways to get involved in schools, visit NBC’s Education Nation site.

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Everything Changes When You Volunteer with Your Kids

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Maureen Byrne, Director, Youth and Family Engagement, generationOn

I love to be around babies.  Coming from a family of nine children, I spent a good amount of time taking caring of babies and became a sought after babysitter in my neighborhood because of my experience.   My daughter developed a similar love for babies holding and cuddling her 16 cousins.   Later, in middle school, my daughter became a certified Red Cross babysitter.  She quickly whipped up a resume, and made flyers announcing her passion, experience and availability but she was too young to take care of babies on her own and had no customers.  By high school, all of her cousins had grown up and she routinely lamented the fact that there were no more babies to hold.

When she found out that we could volunteer at a home that helps homeless teen moms with newborns, she jumped at the chance.  It was a shared interest and the time worked for both of us — early evening.  It was not too far away.  As a working mom, I can always use more opportunities to spend “quality time” with my teenage daughter.   For two hours each week, we held and fed the teen mom’s babies.  Unlike me, my daughter liked changing diapers!  At the end of the evening, she reported to the moms how “it” went and they appreciated her comments about their adorable and well-behaved babies.

By volunteering together, my daughter learned more than what it means to care for a newborn.  She learned how helping others can be transformative.  She developed confidence in herself and her abilities.  She encouraged a few of her friends to join her and demonstrated leadership by advising the other teen sitters.  I appreciated the interaction she had with the older teen moms from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.  I noticed the way my daughter felt needed, that her efforts were valued.    Volunteering together and knowing it provided a meaningful service for the moms, who had to go to class or work as a requirement to live at the home brought us closer together.  Our discussions about the babies, their moms, their parenting styles and the difficulties of being a teen mom made me feel closer to my daughter.

Our experience made me realize that volunteering with your kids has big benefits.  It teaches children the values of kindness, compassion, tolerance and community responsibility.  Family members use their talents to work on an issue they feel passionate about and feel valued for their contributions.  It strengthens communication and allows family members to be role models.  It builds shared memories.   It helps your community. ( and it is fun!)

To make the most out of volunteering as a family, check out these tips:

  • Find a volunteer activity that fits your family’s interests, schedules and that the kids can help plan.
  • Start small.  Consider a one-time event such as Family Volunteer Day or a short-term activity, before making a long-term commitment.
  • Find out what’s expected.   Ask about age requirements, safety considerations, and appropriate dress.  Attend orientation or training sessions if offered.
  • Show up on time.  Be ready to do what is needed.
  • Be patient with small children and keep them involved by praising their efforts.
  • Afterwards, talk about the experience on your drive home or during a family meal. Talk about what you did, why you did it, how it felt, and what you learned.  Celebrate your efforts. It will make all of you feel like doing it again.
  • Keep a family-volunteering scrapbook or create a family volunteering calendar. Get input from all family members in planning future activities.
  • Encourage other families you know to participate with you.

The experience of spending time with my daughter doing something we both enjoyed, worked well for both of us.

And now, she has more babysitting offers than her teenage social life permits!

Want to try family volunteering?

  • Call your department of social services to learn about your community’s needs.
  • Check out FamilyCares for family friendly project ideas.
  • Go to Kids Care Clubs learn how you can start a service club with your children and their peers.
  • Check out Doing Good Together’s family service ideas.
  • Find a HandsOn Action Center near you for volunteer activities and other resources for family volunteering .

This post was originally published as a guest post on Blogher.com.

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10 Ways to Make A Difference in a Child’s Life

Monday, September 20th, 2010

"volunteer"1. Tutor a child.

2.  Be a mentor.

3.  Serve as a Big Brother or Big Sister.

4.  Coach a team.

5.  Volunteer your time in support of a local after-school program.

6.  Share what you know – offer to do a one-time or ongoing course for local students in drama, cooking, Spanish — whatever you’re good at!

7.  Babysit young ones at a local homeless shelter while parent’s look for work.

8.  Collect and distribute school supplies for a school or shelter.

9.  Be the Mystery Reader in a local classroom and delight children with the magic of stories.

10.  Serve as a court appointed special advocate.

October 23rd is Make A Difference Day,

the largest, annual day of service.

Let’s make the biggest difference ever!

  • Spread the Word
  • Create a Project
  • Find a Project
  • Get Resources
  • Share Your Story

Make A Difference for kids in your community.

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10 Things to Consider Before Starting a Volunteer Recognition Program

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

An effective recognition program with the right mix of formal and informal recognition systems and that truly functions as an integral component of a volunteer program can honor and motivate volunteers for their contributions.

Formal volunteer recognition can include certificates, plaques, pins, or dinners to honor volunteer achievement.

Informal recognition occurs in the daily interchange between volunteers and the organization when its staff conveys appreciation for the volunteers’ work.

Volunteer recognition programs help to:

  • Communicate basic volunteer standards;
  • Identify organizational volunteer best practices and trends;
  • Create role models and set benchmarks for volunteers;
  • Strengthen the bond between volunteers and the organization; and
  • Create and/or strengthen brand awareness and marketing opportunities.

Answer these 10 questions to help your organization develop and implement an effective volunteer recognition program:

1. How much staff time can be devoted to administering the recognition program? Will it be administered from
the organization’s headquarters or local offices? (Okay, that’s two questions. Quit being so literal!)

2. Who should be included in the development of the program?

3. How will senior management or program leadership buy-in be secured for the recognition program?

4. How can the recognition program help to meet the volunteer program objectives and overall organizational
needs?

5. What are the best practices of similar organizations’ volunteer recognition programs?

6. Is there an existing recognition program that can be adapted and customized to suit the needs of the organization (For example, see the President’s Volunteer Service Award or the Daily Points of Light Award.)

7. How do your volunteers want to be recognized for their community service? How can you incorporate recognition mechanisms that work for different types of volunteers (e.g., long-term and short-term volunteers)?

8. What will the award criteria and eligibility rules include? Who will judge the award nominations?

9. How will the volunteer award(s) be announced (e.g., special ceremony)? What communications vehicles
currently exist to promote the award internally and externally?

10. Should external counsel and expertise be sought to help develop this volunteer recognition program? Are there
core functions of the program that should be outsourced?

What ideas or thoughts would you add?

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Kids Make Their Mark by Going the Extra Mile

Monday, September 13th, 2010

by Kathy Saulitis, Kids Care Clubs & generationOn

Did you know that October 17th through October 23rd, 2010 is Kids Care Week?

Kids Care Week is a celebration of the power kids have to make their mark on the world by helping others. 

This year, Kids Care Week culminates on Make a Difference Day, a national day of doing good sponsored by USA Weekend, Citi and held in partnership with HandsOn Network.

To celebrate Kids Care Week 2010, we are connecting our Kids Care Week 2010 projects to The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway in Washington, DC, a national monument created by the Points of Light Institute.

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On The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway bronze medallions honor those who have made significant contributions to our nation’s spirit of service.  By taking a walk along this path, one can learn about Wallace J. Campell, Founder of CARE,  Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, Cesar Chavez, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Millard and Linda Fuller, Founder and Co-founder of Habitat for Humanity and Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad to free slaves. All the Extra Mile honorees have impacted millions of lives with their passion and dedication to their individual causes.

Why not plan a project for your kids? Their friends? Their class?

And while you’re at it, why not apply for one of our KIDS CARE WEEK GRANTS!

Thanks to our partnership with Hasbro Children’s Fund, in celebration of Kids Care Week 2010, generationOn will award mini-grants in the amount of $250, to support service projects that are related to the social issues the Extra Mile Honorees addressed.

Individual youth, schools, classrooms, clubs, non-profits and youth groups can apply for the mini-grants.

Take these simple steps to go the extra mile:

  • Check out the Kids Care Week Fact Sheets on the honorees to learn more about their social issues and how you can help (They’re all listed below with links). To access fact sheets visit www.kidscare.org and use limited time log-in: Makeyourmark and password: kidscare.
  • Think about your passion, your community and the world and develop a service project that tackles one of the honoree’s social issues.

Grant applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. EST on September 27, 2010.

Applications will be reviewed upon receipt.  Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.  Grant recipients will be notified by October 1, 2010.  Please email questions regarding the grant to –or call  toll free at 1-.

To learn more about the 33 Extra Mile Honorees, the social issues they cared about and to get Kids Care Week volunteer project ideas, click on the individual’s fact sheet below.

NOTE: You’ll need a user name and password to access these… use mine!

USER NAME: makeyourmark

Password: kidscare

Jane Addams – Founder, Hull House

Edgar Allen – Founder, Easter Seals

Ethel Percy Andrus – Founder,  American Association of Retired Persons

Susan B. Anthony – Suffragist

Roger Baldwin – Founder, American Civil Liberties Union

Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes – Co-founders of the National Urban League

Clara Barton – Founder, American Red Cross

Clifford Beers – Founder, Modern Mental Health Movement

Ballington & Maud Booth - Co-founders, Volunteers of America

William D. Boyce - Founder, Boy Scouts of America

Wallace J. Campbell – Founder, CARE

Rachel Carson – Environmentalist

Cesar Chavez - Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America

Ernest Kent Coulter - Founder, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

Dorothea Dix - Advocate for the Reform of Institutions for the Mentally Ill

Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist

Millard and Linda Fuller – Co-founders, Habitat for Humanity

Samuel Gompers – Founder, American Federation of Labor

Charlotte and Luther Gulick – Co-founders, Camp Fire USA

William Edwin Hall – Founder, Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Paul Harris – Founder, Rotary International

Edgar J. Helms - Founder, Goodwill Industries

Melvin Jones - Founder, International Association of Lions Club

Helen Keller – Founder, American Foundation for the Blind

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights Leader

Juliette Gordon Low – Founder, Girls Scouts

John Muir - Conservationist

Mary White Ovington/W.E.B. Dubois – Founders, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver – Founder, Special Olympics

Robert Smith and William Wilson – Co-founders, Alcoholics Anonymous

Harriet Tubman – Leader of the (Underground Railroad) Effort to Free Slaves

Booker T. Washington – Civil Rights Leader

Ida Wells – Barnett – Leader of Anti-lynching Movement

Three Quick Project Ideas

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10 Ways to Fight Hunger in America

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

America is the world’s wealthiest nation and yet hunger plagues millions of Americans.

In the United States, there are more than 49 million people living in “food insecure households” (meaning they do not always know where they will find their next meal) in the United States. (Source: 2008 USDA Data)

According to 2008 statistics, almost 1 in 4 American children suffered from hunger; at the same time, more than 8% of households with seniors were food insecure.  (Source: 2010 .)

September is Hunger Action Month.

Here are 10 ways you can take action and make a difference…

Find Your Local Food Bank, and volunteer! Search for your local foodbank by zip code.

Talk About Hunger with Your Family. For resources, go to .

Host a Dinner Party, and ask your guests to bring donations for your local food bank in lieu of a host or hostess gift.

Learn More about hunger in Your State.

Prepare For The Unexpected. Build two emergency food boxes – one for your family and one for a family in need, in case of a disaster.

Increase your understanding. Spend one day on a food stamp budget.  Try to spend only $7 on food for a day (the average SNAP, or food stamp allotment). Discuss what the experience was like with your family.

Call Your Member of Congress. Urge them to support legislation helping people struggling with hunger.

Teach your children that healthy food matters for all of us, including those in need. Cook a meal with your child and educate them about hunger.

Write a Letter to the Editor of your local newspaper about hunger in your community.

Organize a Food Drive. Be sure to check with your local food bank to find out what items they are in need of right now.

For more information, see HungerActionMonth or Feeding America.

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My Education. Your Education. Our Future.

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

"Volungeer"by Emily Blaylock, Mobilize.org

While growing up, I was expected to continue onto some form of higher education, obtain a degree, and live the American Dream. Like many Americans, this was not just the social assumption—it was my personal expectation. Yet, there was one significant barrier in my way to both accessing and completing some form of postsecondary education: money.

In high school I became accustomed with the reality that I would be on my own for continuing onto college. I had good grades and potential academic scholarships on the horizon, but I knew they would not be enough to cover the skyrocketing costs of college tuition. Yet just weeks prior to high school graduation, I received a scholarship that not only offset tuition costs, but also the costs of: books, technology, transportation, and housing. I consider myself blessed and am still overwhelmed with gratitude for this scholarship.

In receiving this scholarship, each one of my barriers to college completion was alleviated. Prior to this, I came to recognize each impending barrier as I planned out my college career. I was trying to work out my schedule to take on two part-time jobs, coordinate with friends to carpool to class, pulling my resources to borrow books, and finding the nearest libraries to use their computers. Because of Kenneth Ford, a businessman in rural Oregon and his wife, Hallie, an educator, believed in the investment of a continuing education, I was the recipient of one of their scholarships. They invested in me through providing an education, in order that I may invest myself in my community.

While I never had to fully realize my barriers to college completion, I am aware that these hindrances are vast, and they are many. In fact, for the first time in the 21st century, the current generation of college-aged Americans will be less educated than their parents due to the immense barriers faced in obtaining their educational goals. Fewer than 46% of students at 4-year universities complete their degree within 6 years and only 3 out of 10 students attending community colleges complete their 2-year associate degree within 3 years.

Higher education is a primary factor in improving the state of our communities and our country, as individuals who complete some form of postsecondary education are able to earn higher wages, likely increasing the financial stability for themselves and their families. But if the current student population, all members of the Millennial Generation, is somehow falling short of achieving its educational goals, our country faces a significant problem with consequences impacting our nation for decades to come."Mobilize.org Team Volunteer"

Given the current state of college completion and having overcome my barriers to college completion, I am honored to be a part of Mobilize.org’s Target: 2020 | My Education. Our Future Summit series. This October 22-24, 2010, Mobilize.org will bring together 150 of North Carolina’s most creative and passionate, students to work together and identify barriers they face in achieving their educational goals and develop student-led solutions to address them.

If you are a student enrolled in a North Carolina community college, who has faced or overcome difficulties in completing your education and you have creative ideas about ways you, your community and school can better support students, Mobilize.org wants to hear from you.

Apply to attend the Mobilize.org “Target: 2020 | My Education. Our Future.” Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 22-24, 2010 where you will join 150 students from North Carolina’s community colleges to identify the barriers students face in achieving their educational goals and develop student-led solutions and community projects to address them. Summits will also be held in California and Florida in 2011, dates are TBD. If you are interested in attending, please click .

It’s your education, but it’s our future.

Emily Blaylock joined the Mobilize.org team May 2010 as the Executive Assistant just weeks after graduating from Corban University in Salem, Oregon. She received a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, spending the last four years focusing on Business, Psychology, and Women’s Ministry. A more complete bio can be found here.

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