If you have a passion for health and a desire to serve, consider making a two-year commitment to be a HealthCorps Coordinator. Founded by cardiac surgeon and health expert from The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthCorps mentors high school students about nutrition, fitness, and mental resilience. HealthCorps aims to reverse the alarming trends in teen obesity.
After an hour or so of reading through the Wall Street Journal today, I came to a conclusion. American citizens are finally beginning to make a stand against this economy. People are beginning to stand up and go after better jobs, demand more money and do whatever it takes to provide for their family.
Gone are the times we spent dreading waking up in the morning, fearing whether we would have a job the next day and hoping everything would blow over. If our economic crisis is going to improve, we are going to have to change it! Even the real estate industry seems to be rebounding, in fact one report had shown that more and more people are now obtaining their real estate license.
During an economic hardship, we place our focus on the rich and powerful rather than looking at what is really important, the people. There are thousands of licensed real estate agents without work, thousands of mechanics, accountants, secretaries and small business owners that need help, but we look towards corporate America with sad puppy dog eyes, does this make sense to you?
Yesterday, Washington Post writer, Ed O'Keefe wrote a blog posting that explored if national service should be included as part of Obama's economic plan.
Absolutely! Americans are ready more than every for a call bold call to service. O'Keefe's blog posting points out that there are 3 applicants for every AmeriCorps slots. Also many programs have seen an increase in applicants in these dire economic times.
Today is ServeNext’s first day without interns. We have been fortunate to work with 19 very talented students for the last ten weeks. They attend colleges and graduate schools across the country and were excited to learn more AmeriCorps, national service and ServeNext and to contribute to the movement.
Champions of Service -- if you know anyone, or if you yourself are interested in a year (or another year) of service -- City Year New York has a few limited spots left in our corps. Focusing mostly on education, youth development, and volunteer mobolization efforts, City Year is looking for passionate 17 to 24 year olds to give a year and change the world. For more info visit www.cityyear.org/newyork or call 212.675.8881. Deadline is August 29th.
I visited an AmeriCorps program called Public Allies, which is a program in which employees are matched with a non-profit organization. The size of the non-profit organization varies .The employees duties varies as well. They may be assign to fundrasing or field work and so on. I went to their bi-monthly training. The employees had to do oral presentations in leadership, organization in the workplace, alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace and so on. Everybody was really nice , I liked the program so much I am considering it as a valid option after I get out of school.
Road Trip With a Mission: Expanding National Service. AmeriCorps alumni and ServeNext.org members, are traveling the country by bus for the National Service Express Tour, hitting 30 cities in 60 days.
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