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Change.org Launches “Jobs for Change” to Encourage Careers in Service

(5/14/2009)

SAN FRANCISCO (Market Wire)—Change.org, the leading online hub for social change, today announced the launch of Jobs for Change, a national initiative to help recruit more Americans into careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors.

The initiative is being launched in partnership with more than a dozen leading nonprofit organizations including AmeriCorps Alums, Campus Compact, Encore Careers, Network for Good, Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, New Organizing Institute, and Echoing Green.

Read the full press release on Yahoo!Finance.

Before I started working in community service-learning, I was one of those people who didn't have much of a social conscience. Now all of that has changed, and I say, 'Put me in the trenches to do the real work to make a difference.'"

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