The Strategy

 

Photo courtesy California Volunteers

The ServiceNation Movement is a national grassroots campaign that launched immediately following the ServiceNation Summit in New York City. It rallies the voices of ordinary Americans behind the idea that citizen service can strengthen our democracy, and help solve our most persistent social challenges and crises. These voices call upon the next President and Congress, leaders from all sectors of society, and fellow Americans to join to create a new era of service and civic engagement in America: an era in which by 2020, 100 million Americans will volunteer time in schools, workplaces, and faith-based and community institutions each and every year (up from 61 million today), and that increasing numbers of Americans annually will commit a year of their lives to national service.

 

The ServiceNation Movement began with a national Day of Action on September 27, 2008. Citizen organizers pulled together their communities at hundreds of events across America, laying out the ServiceNation vision and calling on their friends, families, and neighbors to sign the ServiceNation Declaration of Service and enlist in the ServiceNation advocacy campaign that will call upon our leaders—in Washington, in local communities, at every Town Hall--to take action.  Over 2,700 events took place on the Day of Action across the country, with events in every state.

 

The ServiceNation Movement is a campaign of the people, by the people and for the people. It is born from the belief that when American citizens unite behind a powerful idea, anything can be accomplished. But it can only be a success with your help: