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Less than seven months after challenging corporate America to deliver $1 billion in pro bono volunteering support for nonprofits, Corporation for National and Community Service CEO David Eisner hailed $280 million in new pledges that pushed the campaign tally past $406 million, announced new research spotlighting the untapped potential for pro-bono volunteers, and unveiled a new campaign brand, A Billion + Change.
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Less than seven months after challenging corporate America to deliver $1 billion in pro bono volunteering support for nonprofits, Corporation for National and Community Service CEO David Eisner hailed $280 million in new pledges that pushed the campaign tally past $406 million, announced new research spotlighting the untapped potential for pro-bono volunteers, and unveiled a new campaign brand, A Billion + Change.
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Joan Dale is the volunteer coordinator of The Grandfathers Group, a mentoring initiative of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program and The Campagna Center in Alexandria, VA.   Joan Dale is the volunteer coordinator of The Grandfathers Group, a mentoring initiative of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program and The Campagna Center in Alexandria, VA.
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I first joined VISTA in 1968: the year of the Beatles, flower children, demonstrations, LSD, marijuana, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. After graduate school, I could have joined the demonstrations or “dropped out,” but I wanted to connect to a dividing nation. I needed to get involved.   I first joined VISTA in 1968: the year of the Beatles, flower children, demonstrations, LSD, marijuana, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. After graduate school, I could have joined the demonstrations or “dropped out,” but I wanted to connect to a dividing nation. I needed to get involved.
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  10/3/2008   Learn & Serve Challenge Spotlights Students As Solutions to Community Problems
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  9/22/2008   AmeriCorps Alumni Sought For Prestigious Eli Segal Fellowship
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  9/22/2008   National Service Agency Taps 5 Universities To Expand Research on Volunteering
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  9/22/2008   National Service Agency Turns to Internet to Grow Campus Service
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  9/19/2008   National Service Moves In After Hurricane Ike
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  9/18/2008   What a September!
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  9/17/2008   New Radio PSAs Urge Americans to Fight Poverty by Joining AmeriCorps VISTA
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  9/11/2008   9/11 Anniversary
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  9/8/2008   President Bush Renews His Post-9/11 Call to Service; Honors the Compassion of America’s Volunteers
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  9/8/2008   Corporate Pro-Bono Volunteering Campaign Tops $400 Million
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Instituting a Day of Service with New Student Orientation

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August 2008
 Instituting a Day of Service with New Student Orientation
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