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National Service Agency Turns to Internet to Grow Campus Service

MA (9/28/2008)

http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1144

Aiming to tap the skyrocketing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to promote social good, the Corporation for National and Community Service today announced $2.3 million in grants to use social media to engage college students in service to meet community needs…

…Administered by the Corporation’s Learn and Serve America program, the three-year grants will go to Tufts University/CIRCLE/Massachusetts Campus Compact, Youth Venture, the Phoenix Project, Middlesex County College in New Jersey, South Dakota State University, and DC Central Kitchen. Descriptions and amounts are below.

I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC."

-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader

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