…Deeply impacted by his time spent volunteering for AmeriCorp during a two-year leave of absence from college, Aaron Marquez (SFS ’08), and Zach Maurin, a fellow AmeriCorp volunteer who graduated from The George Washington University this year, have come together to create ServeNext, a non-profit organization lobbies on behalf of service organizations that are prohibited by law from lobbying. In recent months, nine presidential candidates have pledged more support for national service organizations as a result of the organization’s advocacy…

…Starting with Georgetown, Marquez and Maurin have set out to establish university chapters of ServeNext across the country.

“Georgetown could be leading the way in recruiting,” Marquez said, adding that University President John J. DeGioia is the chair of the Board of Directors of Campus Compact, a coalition of university presidents who have made public commitments to civic engagement and the support of social justice. “Georgetown can be a spokesperson university for creating the incentives for how people want to do service.”…