From newspapers to blogs to websites, here’s what we’re finding about the Day of Action:
Daily Camera covers Boulder events
The spectacular Amy Potthast blogs about registering voters in Oregon
Brad Meltzer asked people to serve in Cleveland
The Washington Times discusses the events in the DC metro area
Relight NY, Children for Children, and City Year NY distribute environment-friendly lightbulbs in NYC
Cool People Care asks you to spend 5 minutes of caring about ServiceNation

Here’s some notable blogging about the Summit. I know I said I was probably done with summit round-up posts, but there’s some spectacular writers out there.

Through the Eyes of a Marketer: ServiceNation’s Summit

You see, this event was not a debate because this event was about uniting us all around something on which we all agree: the need to place service, in its many and myriad forms…spanning improvements to education to bettering our nation’s health to eradicating our plummeting levels of poverty…into a place of more prominence in our country, to garner more participation from the public and the need to shift many of our existing perceptions around service.

David Berkowitz has a Kyte post of an interview with Columbia students post-forum.

David Reich asks us to “imagine what can be accomplished”.

And a series of posts from Britt Bravo of Have Fun, Do Good:
One: Being the Media at the ServiceNation Summit…
Two: September 11th Presidential Forum on Service
Three: Love Thy Neighbor: Governor David Paterson
Four: Sen Kennedy and Sen Hatch Introduce Serve America Act
Five: More Groovy Service Acts at ServiceNation Summit
Six: Senator Hillary Clinton at ServiceNation Summit

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece that focuses on Obama

CBS opinion piece

Newsweek’s blog opines on the news coverage of the forum

NY1’s coverage of Friday

CNN, MTV, and NonProfit Times on the forum

Boston Globe article on the Bentley / City Year partnership (see the Lunch Liveblog)

Boston Globe on the Kennedy-Hatch bill, which was announced Friday morning by Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Hatch

And the blogs (I know I’m missing a lot of people - let me know if you blogged the Summit and I’m not linking you):

The Student Conservation Association has 7 posts on us!

Amy from The New Service and Idealist.org (I’ll be the first to tell you how absolutely spectacular Amy is)

1:18 - Alan Khazei (BTC CEO) takes the stage and the crowd goes wild. He’s reading the Declaration of Service. The announcer described him as “irrepressible”; as I’m down in the DC office, I’ve only met him once, but from what I know, it’s a pretty accurate adjective. Not only is Alan a great speaker, he absolutely knows his stuff. This moment is another one of those surreal ones to me - to see all of this, to hear Alan, and see all these people, sitting together for what we’ve been working on so hard - well, I might even tear up.

1:27 - National Service Town Meeting! David Gergen describes Alan as a “force of nature”. Change Agent Mallory Josol is on stage, along with Usher, and to be quite honest that’s all the people I can identify from up here. He’ll introduce everyone in a moment (I hope).
Borrowed someone’s program (I’m running around too much to carry anything) - other participants are Lt Gen Ben Freakley, Vanessa Kirsh, Michelle Nunn.
Participants are talking about service in great language - we’re filming it, and I think video will do it better than my typing quick soundbites. (Also, I’m almost out of battery.) Look for more posts, videos, and pictures throughout the day - and whatever we don’t get for you today (because we’re all so busy, and we have so. much. content.) will be up next week!

We’ve moved our base of operations to the Midtown Hilton’s 4th Floor, and we’re getting ready to start the day. Registration has been active all morning; the morning plenary begins at 8:30 with First Lady Laura Bush, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Admiral Michael Mullen (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), among others. We’ll be putting up content (video, stills, posts, and tweeting) all day.

Here is, in brief, a bunch of links to articles about us!
TIME
Boston Globe
Washington Post
NY1
AP
FOX News
Wall Street Journal
CNN
Columbia Spectator
LA Times (liveblog from last night)
ABC News

Our presenting sponsor Time Magazine features the Summit on their website this morning. Their coverage centers around the common ground the presidential candidates found last night on issues of national service:

The campaign shifted for a moment from attack politics to patches of common ground, with Obama and McCain agreeing that ROTC recruiters should be allowed on campuses like Columbia (where they are currently prohibited) and that the next president should recapture the feeling of civic responsibility that swept the country after 9/11.

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McCain and Obama both said they wanted to expand the size of the U.S. military and encourage Americans from all socio-economic groups to enlist. McCain said military service was part of his family’s tradition and that, initially, he “rebelled against it,” adding that he felt the draft was unfair because many wealthy Americans found ways to get out of it. Obama and McCain both suggested they would support increasing pay for the military to improve retention.

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The evening was long on serious policy issues and short on one-liners, in keeping with the subdued tone of the campaign throughout the day as the nation remembered the tragedies 9/11.

Additional Time coverage:

Candidate op-eds

Read Sen. Obama’s op-ed calling Americans to serve

Read Sen. McCain’s op-ed inspiring citizens to do more

So if you aren’t watching the ServiceNation summit live on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, or MSNBC, and if you can’t access our live feed (click here), you can see videos of what’s been happening (including the pre-televised opening) on our YouTube. Additionally, I’m livetweeting!

City Year Young Leaders say hello!

And here’s part of Usher’s Press Conference:

Starting at 7 p.m. EDT, the LA Times’ Top of the Ticket blog will be live-blogging the forum. Check it out here.

A plethora of links:
Encore Leadership Interview with Alan Khazei
Nonprofits Launch Effort on 9/11 to Boost Volunteerism, Christian Science Monitor
Service group wants to change meaning of 9/11, Denver 9 News
Carnegie Corporation Calls for Rekindling Citizen Obligation to Society, PNN Online
Brodhead to speak in NYC about service, education, Duke Chronicle
This 9/11, a unified call to service others; Minneapolis Star Tribune
Obama, McCain take City Vacation from Partisanship, NY1
Civic-Minded Stars Join ServiceNation, Columbia Spectator
Carnegie Corporation’s Gregorian Calls for Rekindling Citizen Obligation to Society, Carnegie Corporation

Remember: ServiceNation Forum with Senators Obama and McCain, tonight, 8pm EST, CNN!

We’ve been getting a ton of press over the past 24 hours (with more still coming!), so I’m going to try and give you the links to the best articles!

From the New York Times:

“It [the ServiceNation summit] will be an effort to say to the country that we need to make a quantum leap in calling upon our citizens to participate in national and community service throughout their lives to address some of our most pressing social problems,” said Alan Khazei, founder of BeTheChange, a nonprofit group promoting service and part of the umbrella organization Service Nation, which helped organize the forum. “It is unique in my lifetime to have two candidates who have made the notion of service and civic engagement central parts of their candidacy.”

From TIME Magazine (the cover story is about us too, but isn’t online yet!):

National service is part of our DNA. From the signers of the Declaration pledging their lives and sacred honor, to Ben Franklin’s community fire-insurance company, to all the volunteer associations Alexis de Tocqueville saw when he visited America, service is a key part of the story we tell ourselves about this country. The ideas for national service we write about in this issue are as old as the Liberty Bell and as modern as long-distance digital tutoring. And they are part of a new American story that we are inventing every day.

From Politico:

“I think it’s thrilling that we have two presidential nominees, both of whom have made service a centerpiece of their presidential agenda for the country,” Khazei said. “We have this opportunity with two nominees, two potential first ladies, all of whom have had foundational service experience. So it’s not just the policy — it’s in their guts.”

Part 2 (and possibly 3, and 4, and 5…) coming soon!