Supporting More Effective National Service

President Obama and President George H.W. Bush present the 5,000th Daily Points of Light award to Floyd Hammer and Kathy Hamilton, a retired couple from Iowa who founded a nonprofit that has delivered more than 232 million free meals to children around the world.

Hey, a lot of really good people are helping Americans in need via the Corporation for National and Community Service. It's a "private-public partnership," meaning that people in business, government, and the nonprofit sector work together with citizens to get results.

That includes a lot of good work by AmeriCorps, which engages 80,000 Americans in results-driven service to meet local needs. In the last year AmeriCorps has teamed up with other agencies to launch:

Lots more needs to get done, and to that effect, the President just signed an official memorandum on expanding national service.

Basically, it tells federal agencies to work together in a task force to expand national service in six areas: emergency and disaster services; economic opportunity; education; environmental stewardship; healthy futures; and veterans and military families. It also encourages more partnerships with the private sector to unleash the energy of citizens to get things done.

This is a big deal; there's still a lot of suffering out there best address by a combination of public and private efforts.

There are a lot of people out there who could use an extra hand, even right in your own neighborhood. Help out if you can.

Dr. Mohammad Seraj ANSARI

Global President The World Economic Forum For Asia-Africa (WEFAA) & Global President -International Non-Olympic Committee-INOC & Group Chairman -ISE Cards India India Ltd

10 年

The International Non-Olympic University has decided to recruit National Brand Ambassadors (NBA) in each Country of the World, The INOU need a very popular person from your country and you can recommend for other Country too, who can become National Brand Ambassador for International Non-Olympic University as we have already appointed in South Africa and Egypt, and we are process of appointing Morocco, Philippines, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah etc.,. We would request you to please recommend personalities from (a). Extra Ordinary achievement in the Education fields-men or women? (b.) A top businessman/Industrialist-men or women? (c.) A top political personality-men or women? (d.) A top NGO head-men or women? (e.) A top Sports Person-men or women? Who can give good boom to INOU in his/her Country and further they can establish National Non-Olympic University (Online and Regular University) and can open colleges and do many collaboration and tie-ups for our University, and he/she can run UNDP and other social Global NGO programs into Education Sector under INOU Charter. We would urge you to visit these two links to know more about NBA. ; 1 -- https://www.inou-edu.org/bamessage.html 2 -- https://www.inou-edu.org/news.html Send CV at: [email protected]

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PETER SEKALEKA

Company Secretary HAGIN ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED

11 年

Humanitarian aid / community services is part of LDS CHURCHES participation service Here in Africa, we do need partners to work with to effectively apply these programs to our poor communities. We as well need to develop our Assets so that the local communities where we live can have a better access to employment. How best can we achieve such? Peter S. LDS NTINDA

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GramaKeshava Ananthram

Managing Director at WWW.OmtharaKalaKuteera

11 年

Great Charity Work; May Such tribe increase !

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Mike Gisclair

Regional Sales Manager, H2O Innovation | Southeast US | Membrane Desalination, Filtration, Wastewater, and Reuse

11 年

Service to others is a worthwhile and noble activity, but will someone explain to me why it has to be a Federal program?

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