June 22-September 11

“Economic recovery is as much about what you’re doing in your communities as what we’re doing in Washington -- and it’s going to take all of us, working together. I’m calling on all Americans to make volunteering and community service part of your daily life and the life of this nation.”

- President Barack Obama

The President and First Lady launched United We Serve in partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service. United We Serve is a nationwide initiative, beginning this summer, to create a sustained, collaborative, and focused effort to meet community needs and make service a way of life for all Americans. The online home of United We Serve is Serve.gov.

Confident that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when given the proper tools, President Obama has called on Americans to both expand the impact of existing organizations by engaging new volunteers in their work and encourage volunteers to develop their own "do-it-yourself" projects.

PURPOSE
United We Serve will take traditional calls to service further by:
• Putting volunteers on a path to sustained service.
• Asking volunteers to become volunteer organizers by identifying unmet needs in their community, developing their own service projects, and engaging others who are interested in the same issue area.
• Providing easy-to-use tools on Serve.gov for volunteers to set outcome-oriented goals and track their community impact.
• Calling upon Americans to form new community partnerships and join together across historical barriers of religion, race, and ethnicity.

FOCUS
United We Serve will empower Americans to participate this summer by:
• Promoting clean energy, energy efficiency, and public land restoration.
• Supporting education and literacy for all Americans.
• Increasing health care access, public health awareness, and prevention.
• Providing community renewal to areas hardest hit by the economic crisis.
• Ensuring our communities are safe from disasters and our veterans and military families are supported.

The summer initiative will culminate on September 11, 2009, a National Day of Service and Remembrance, but United We Serve is ongoing. The National Day of Service and Remembrance will recognize the summer's accomplishments, honor those who died on September 11, 2001 by serving in their memory, and encourage Americans to make an ongoing commitment to service.

Projects
United We Serve Flyer
United We Serve Nat’l Site

 Or, for more information, please contact Service Project Coordinator Meaghan Mills at 303-866-6013 or meaghan.mills@state.co.us.

 
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