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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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Margaret "Peggy" Nes was so touched by her experience with AmeriCorps*NCCC after they came to the aid of her small community in New Mexico after a forest fire destroyed her home and the homes of her neighbors that she put it in this letter to the President of the United States.  Read it.  It's titled, A Letter of Thanks.   Margaret "Peggy" Nes was so touched by her experience with AmeriCorps*NCCC after they came to the aid of her small community in New Mexico after a forest fire destroyed her home and the homes of her neighbors that she put it in this letter to the President of the United States.  Read it.  It's titled, A Letter of Thanks.
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Don Slater spends four evenings a week at the Douglass Center in Manhattan, Kan., where the Hand to Hand program offers tutoring and homework help to community children. When school is out for the summer, Hand to Hand, which Slater helped establish in 1996, runs a math and reading program.   Don Slater spends four evenings a week at the Douglass Center in Manhattan, Kan., where the Hand to Hand program offers tutoring and homework help to community children. When school is out for the summer, Hand to Hand, which Slater helped establish in 1996, runs a math and reading program.
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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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Holding a Poetry Contest to Educate Youth About Watershed Ecology

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October 2008
 Holding a Poetry Contest to Educate Youth About Watershed Ecology
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