Strategies for Becoming a Nation of Service represents a vision, endorsed by more than 110 ServiceNation coalition members, to unleash the energy of citizens on our most pressing social challenges by strengthening and increasing community and national service opportunities.

This policy agenda proposes meaningful opportunities for service at every key life stage, and for every socioeconomic group, from kindergarten through the post-retirement years.  These proposals will help instill a culture of service at an early age and provide opportunities for Americans to continue serving throughout their lifetimes.

Strategies for Becoming a Nation of Service includes proposals for:

• Engaging 100 million Americans in community volunteering.
• Engaging 20 million youth per year in school and community-based service learning.
• Expanding service on college campuses.Placing 1 million Americans per year in full- and part-time stipended national service by 2020.
• Launching a Veterans Service Fellowship.
• Attracting talent to America’s public sector.
• Forging alliances of peace and prosperity through overseas service.
• Fostering new innovations and growth to scale in the nonprofit sector.
• Providing millions of Americans age 50 and older opportunities to use their lifetime of learning and skills to help address America’s challenges.
• Measuring outcomes of expanded service opportunities.
  
  

The policy proposals aim to make service a defining ethic of what it means to be an American. Americans will be confronted with a commonly-asked question: “Where do you do your service?” Service will be a civic rite of passage freely undertaken.  And the results will be profound. 

Click here for a list of the policy's endorsers .

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