United We Serve – The Summer of Service and National Day of Service

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The Obama Administration recently launched the United We Serve initiative. This initiative intends to usher in a new era of volunteerism and service to address community needs in education, health care, energy independence, economic renewal, and other issues. The initiative, which will be led by the Corporation for National and Community Service, officially kicks off on June 22 with the Summer of Service. and runs for 81 days through a new the National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11. This initiative aims to both expand the impact of existing organizations by engaging new volunteers in their work and encourage volunteers to develop their own “do-it-yourself” projects. To support these initiatives the Administration has launched www.serve.gov. This website contains a toolkit to launch service projects and the ability to locate service and volunteering and service opportunities by topic and geographical area. Fore more information go to www.serve.gov