January 11, 2007
A New Chapter for a Leader of the National-Service Movement
In the fall of 1986, Alan Khazei huddled over one of the earliest Apple Macintosh computers with a college pal, Michael Brown, and drafted a plan for a grass-roots effort that could become a model for a national-service effort.
Their hope was to show that young people who devoted a year of their life to volunteer work could be a powerful force for social change, and to build support for passage of a nationwide program.
At the time, the idea of volunteer national service wasn't
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