This op-ed was originally published in the Idaho Capital Sun on November 27, 2023. — By Tony Ashton Teach for America Idaho faces a potentially devastating blow to our programs should the U.S. Congress enact the deep cuts to the...
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The Lens NOLA: Proposed Cuts to City Year Program Would Do Most Harm to At-Risk Kids in Under-Resourced Schools
This op-ed was originally published on TheLensNOLA.com on October 30, 2023. — By Arielle McConduit Ashley and Dr. Luz Randolph “You can teach me stuff like vowels, words, and reading. You can teach me how to be calm.” With that,...
Read More »TIME: On AmeriCorps’ Thirtieth Anniversary, Congress Considers Gutting National Service
This op-ed was originally published on TIME.com on Thursday, October 26, 2023. You can see the original post here. — BY RYE BARCOTT AND ANNMAURA CONNOLLY Rye Barcott is the author of the memoir It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path...
Read More »TIME: On AmeriCorps’ Thirtieth Anniversary, Congress Considers Gutting National Service
This op-ed was originally published on TIME.com on Thursday, October 26, 2023. — BY RYE BARCOTT AND ANNMAURA CONNOLLY Rye Barcott is the author of the memoir It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace and co-founder...
Read More »CBS Sunday Morning: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on what would close the divide in America
Their greatest contribution was not any physical structure; it was in shaping themselves into what Tom Brokaw so aptly described as the "Greatest Generation." I might simply call them good citizens. We can, and must, do that again, by harnessing...
Read More »GazetteXtra: AmeriCorps Funding Slashed in Proposed Federal Budget
This LTE was originally published on GazetteXtra.com on August 16, 2023. — By Yolanda Shelton-Morris, Madison More than 8,000 AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers make a difference in Rock County and communities across Wisconsin, making a positive impact through...
Read More »The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Want to Solve Polarization? Encourage More People to Volunteer
By Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith America. If you came of age in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you heard President George H.W. Bush talk about American volunteerism as “a thousand points of light” and President...
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