Posted by ERIC WILSON – Clinton School student Molly Brunkow is working on her Capstone (individual) service project in Washington, D.C., for Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP), a non-profit that focuses on national youth service and service learning. Molly wrote an article titled “President-Elect Obama and the Call to Service” that was featured in the most recent ICP e-newsetter. Here is an excerpt describing Obama’s service platform:
The call to serve was laid out in a three overarching goals; enabling all Americans to serve, integrate service into learning, and investing in the nonprofit sector. To enable all Americans to serve, the plan calls for doubling the size of the Peace Corps; expanding the size and mission of AmeriCorps; engaging retiring Americans in service; creating an America’s Voice Initiative to expand American public diplomacy; strengthening the military; and leveraging technology to connect volunteers to potential service opportunities. To integrate service into learning, the plan calls for all pre-college students to serve 50 hours a year within their community and for college students to serve 100 hours a year in exchange for a tax credit; the creation of a green youth corps and expansion of youth build programs to engage disadvantaged youth; the expansion of service-learning in American schools; and the promotion of college serve study. Finally, to invest in the non-profit sector the plan calls for creating a social entreupeuner agency within the Corporation for National Community Service; creating a social investment fund network; and scaling up successful programs.
To read the full article, click here.
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