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June 29, 2009, 02:47 PM ET
Volunteering Conference Highlights Obama Push on Community Service
Last week’s National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco featured a lot of talk about the Obama administration’s efforts to promote community service.
The Chronicle‘s conference notebook brought news about the following:
- Michelle Obama’s opening pitch for Americans to make community service a part of their daily lives.
- Advice on how nonprofit groups can support the administration’s United We Serve campaign.
- An official announcement about All for Good, the Web project to aggregate volunteer opportunities that will feed the administration’s Serve.gov.
- A suggestion that the administration’s emphasis on community service as a way to help solve the country’s problems could change the way such work is evaluated.
- Concerns about the strain an influx of new volunteers could put on nonprofit groups.
- The prospect that budget constraints will curtail spending on the Serve America Act.
- The priorities of Jackie Norris, a new senior adviser at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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