Chelsea Clinton will attend her second America Forward event when she and her father, former President Bill Clinton, serve alongside volunteers this morning to build a community garden and help paint a mural at Woodlawn Elementary School in Portland, OR. The service project is being sponsored locally by “I Have A Dream” Founation of Oregon, which works [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 17, 2008
Ch-ch-ch-change of plans…
Sean left last night for Austin. Since we didn’t really need to be in Austin until Sunday at 2:00pm for our organizing meeting there, I opted to get a motel room in Albuquerque, hang around town Friday night, and take some much-needed down time. I don’t sleep well on the bus and we had already [...]
May 17, 2008
BlogNext: CT leads Congress on National Service…
BlogNext, the official blog of ServeNext.org, has a couple posts on Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and their focus in recent days and weeks on National Service. If you’re from the great State of Connecticut (specifically from the Bridgeport area, which Congressman Shays represents), you should be very, very proud.
Check ‘em out!
May 17, 2008
AmeriCorps’ Best Honored With Spirit of Service Awards
As part of AmeriCorps Week, the Corporation for National and Community Service honored a handful of outstanding AmeriCorps members, alums, and corporate sponsors with Spirit of Service Awards in recognition of their contributions to national service — including several individuals who serve or have served in communities along the National Service Express Tour!
The awardees tackled issues such as [...]
May 16, 2008
A Magical Journey in the West
Yesterday, Matt and I took an epic ride from Los Angeles to Mesa, Arizona. It wasn’t our longest trip to date, only scheduled to take seven and a half hours. From the very beginning, however, something special was in the air. Maybe it was some of that LA magic (which we had experienced while walking [...]
