YES WE CAN: ServiceLearning in the Age of President Obama

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YES WE CAN Service-Learning in the Age of
President Obama
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• Our moment.
• Our time.
• On this day.

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The Policy Basics

• Obama Service Plan
• 2010 Appropriations
• Stimulus Funding
• GIVE Act/Serve America

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Obama Service Plan Nuts and Bolts

• Integrate Service into Education
• Expand Service-Learning in Our Nations Schools
• Connect disadvantaged youth to service
  opportunities
• 100 hours of service in college
• Promote College Serve-Study

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• New National Service Laws
• The GIVE Act (H.R. 1388)
• The Serve America Act (S. 277)

• Service-Learning Funding Horizon
• 2010 Appropriations for Learn and Serve America
• Stimulus Funding Opportunities

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Town Hall Forum

• Panel 1 Corporation for National and Community
  Service Vince Meldrum, former CEO of Earth Force
  and Elson Nash, Acting Director of Learn and
  Serve America
• Panel 2 U.S. Department of Education Kari
  Arfstrom, Vice-President of the National Youth
  Leadership Council and Bob Seidel, Director of
  Government Affairs of Communities in Schools
• What current policy opportunities exist?
• What do you wish service-learning supporters knew
  or understood better?
• What next step is SO essential or SO easy that
  wed be crazy not to do it?
• What are the TOP 5 things attendees should do
  when they get home?

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• YES WE CAN.

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