ICP NEWS
ICP Blog: A Week of National Service
ICP receives Summer of Service grant from Learn and Service America to engage nearly 600 young people in environmental service learning
ICP Blog: Healing the Earth with Service
New Talloires Network Blog:
ICP Blog: Come Hell or High Water, Neighbors Reach Out
New Talloires Network Blog:
Talloires Network April Newsletter
Talloires Network Blog: New award announced to recognize student leaders in public service
ICP Blog: Students Exchanging Sand for Service
ICP Blog: Youth Service as a Pathway for Careers in Public Service
ICP Blog
Young People Supporting Relief and Recovery Efforts
In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, young people throughout the world are asking what they can do to help Haitians recover. Many responses to young people suggest that they can organize fundraising events to funnel needed funds to relief agencies operating in Haiti. In the immediate aftermath, securing financial support for relief agencies is crucial and a clear way young people can be contributing to the effort from afar. Click here to read more.
White House creates the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
The White House Office of Social
Innovation and Civic Participation
will coordinate efforts to enlist all Americans
- individuals,
non-profits, social entrepreneurs, corporations
and foundations - as
partners in solving our great challenges.
Visit NPR
for more information. The Chronicle of
Philanthropy also has an interview
with the two coordinators Melody Barnes who is
the director of the White House Domestic Policy
Council, and Sonal Shah who is the head of the
new office.
Talloires Network News, June 2009
Investing in Young People as Contributors in Climate Change Efforts
Dame Elizabeth Hoodless Awarded Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award
Congress Passes the Serve America Act
Diverse Stakeholders Gather to Discuss Youth Active Citizenship in India
ICP Blog
New
Entry--March 19,
2009.
Stimulus funds provide opportunity to
strategically build Summer of Service
programs.
On March 7, 2009,
the US Department of Education (USDE) released
guidance for disbursing $10 billion in new
funding for Title I that was
included in the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA). A
strategic use of these funds within the USDE’s
guidance includes
opportunities to support Summer of Service
(SOS) programs. Click here
to read
more.
Summer of Service Legislation Update
ICP Receives Grant for Summer of Service from Lumina Foundation
ICP Granted Special Consultative Status with the UN
Innovations
in Civic Participation (ICP) will be building
further partnerships with the
United Nations to advocate for service as a
strategy for development through
its newly designated special consultative
status to the UN. Click here
to learn
more.
ICP Co-Sponsors AUC Conference in Cairo, Egypt
The John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement based at the American University in Cairo, in partnership with the Talloires Network, announce ‘Tadamun: Toward Civic Engagement in Arab Education.’ This first of its kind regional conference on the role of Arab universities in promoting civic engagement will take place in Cairo, Egypt at the American University in Cairo from October 13-14, 2008.
The two day event will launch a regional network of Arab universities by bringing together university presidents and student leaders in order to discuss definitions of civic engagement in the Arab context, the practices and challenges of implementing civic engagement programs on campus and the ways in which Arab universities can collaborate to promote stronger programs and a deeper ownership of civic engagement in the region. In discussing the above, the conference will look to South Africa as a case-study of a developing nation that has been able to make use of the opportunities afforded by civic engagement in education. The South African Minister of Education, Ms. Naledi Pandor, will speak on the impact of civic engagement on the educational sector of her country.
For more information on the conference please click here
ServiceNation Summit 11th-13th September 2008
The journey towards a unified service movement and a new America begins September 11-13 when the ServiceNation Summit commences in New York City. The Summit will bring together leaders of all ages and every sector of American society to celebrate and enact a new era of power and potential for citizen service. The summit will also aim to lay out a new bold policy outline for addressing America’s greatest social challenges through expanded opportunities for volunteer and national service. We at ICP are happy to announce that as a proud member of the Organizing Committee for ServiceNation, we will be participating in the Summit next week. Our participation is in conjunction with our vision of a ‘world where young people in every nation are actively engaged in improving their lives and their communities through civic participation’. We at ICP look forward to our participation in the summit and will update this space on our experiences at ServiceNation. Stay tuned!
ICP World Bank Experts Meeting
Interns arrive at ICP!
To read more about the interns, click here.