[Community-service] {Disarmed} Fwd: Marching Into Healthy Futures

[Darian]

When I read these posts, I imagine that the people in them are blind. I imagine that these people are blind people doing the service work and I think that these are things that are division can do.
What do you see as possible when you read this post?

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> Date: March 7, 2014 at 12:02:28 PM PST
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> Subject: Marching Into Healthy Futures
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> Dear Colleagues and Communicators,
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> Whether they’re tackling childhood obesity, helping prevent disease, or encouraging physical fitness, our national service members make our communities better, healthier places to live.
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> This week's updates highlight the great work they're doing. Read on below and learn more!
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> Thanks and have a great weekend,
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> The External Affairs Team
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> P.S. -- This week, President Obama released his FY 2015 Budget request. Go to our website for more.
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> AmeriCorps Leads to a Healthier Future: Too many of our nation’s citizens have unhealthy eating habits and don’t get enough exercise. Our AmeriCorps members are changing that. As part of our continued celebration of the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps, CEO Wendy Spencer introduced Healthy Futures month by highlighting the important work that our members do to keep communities healthy.
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> Service Changes Lives: National service transforms both communities and the lives of those who serve. Bicell Walker says his participation in the AmeriCorps program PowerCorpsPHL has given him a fresh start. “I advise anybody who has this opportunity to take it and do good with it,” he says. Watch and share his story (featuring an appearance by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter).
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> Welcoming a New Class: This week, the national service community welcomed members of AmeriCorps NCCC's 20th class at the Vicksburg campus in Mississippi. The induction featured more than 300 members from two neighboring campuses (affectionately referred to as the "Southlantic" region.) Special guests included Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs, Jr., AmeriCorps NCCC Director Kate Raftery, and FEMA Corps Program Liaison Alfred Claud. Know anyone who would make a great AmeriCorps NCCC corps member? The application deadline for next year is April 1!
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> Serving Those Who Served Us: In 2013 alone, about 27,000 AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers supported organizations serving nearly 1.5 million veterans and military families in more than 200 communities across the country. AmeriCorps VISTA member and Army veteran Neal Pointer explains why service with Habitat for Humanity means so much to him: “When you look at all the different ways that we’ve assisted in homeownership…we’ve probably touched the lives of somewhere between 120 and 150 veterans.” Watch and share this story of service with your networks.
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> National Service in the News
> Senior Corps
> HUGS can work wonders in the community
> Pocono Record (PA), March 4, 2014
> Since its inception in April 2012, the Sock-It-To-Me program distributed more than 2,000 pairs of socks, as has recently distributed 80 pairs of gloves and 150 hats. In addition to the many store-bought items, many of the socks and hats were hand-knitted and crocheted by RSVP volunteers.
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> Aid for Seniors
> Monroe News (MI), March 2, 2014
> The center has received an $88,942 grant to support volunteer activities from the Corporation of National and Community Service (CNCS). The award is part of a competitive grant for the Retired Senior Volun­teer Program ( RSVP), one of three Senior Corps programs administered by CNCS.
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> Social Innovation Fund
> At Last, Someone Invented Innovation!
> The Huffington Post (NY), March 4, 2014
> Innovation is such a big deal in the civic sector (nonprofits and partners doing society's work) that the White House hosts a Social Innovation Fund. It's modest but influential and everyone in the sector wants its attention, even more so than the attention we have sought for innovation funding from foundations for over a century.
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> AmeriCorps
> 'Night of Stars' celebrates volunteers, kids' reading progress
> KSL-TV (UT), February 28, 2014
> [VIDEO] Volunteers in KSL’s Read Today AmeriCorps program got to see the mid-year results of their tutoring in a big-screen production. Here’s the trailer: kids are doubling their reading progress. “Feeling like you’re contributing to someone’s development is just great,” said tutor Mark Hammond.
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> AmeriCorps NCCC
> Work broadens camp's appeal
> Delaware County Daily Times (PA), March 5, 2014
> Signs designed in harmony with the setting are placed sequentially by a group of young AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps workers read in succession down the gravel entry lane...AmeriCorps deploys the groups, comprised of 18- to 24-year-olds who are game for a little adventure somewhere away from familiar environs of home.
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> AmeriCorps VISTA
> AmeriCorps VISTA program Joins Forces with Mayor for Blanket Drive
> Corsair (FL), March 4, 2014
> Pensacola State College’s AmeriCorps VISTA program is taking strides to change this wretched reality. AmeriCorps VISTA is a service program designed to help eliminate poverty in America. PSC’s branch of the program, headed by Michael Listau, provides volunteer opportunities to the students and staff at the college.
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> National Service Blog
> Creating Fit Bodies and Fit Minds
> By Paul Caccamo, Executive Director of Up2Us
> NationalService.gov, March 6, 2014
> For too many years we have addressed the equation of “fit body and fit minds” as requiring two separate interventions. For the mind, we’ve looked toward mentoring. For the body, we’ve turned to physical activity and health education. But our AmeriCorps investment proves that a national service member can be the catalyst to fit bodies and fit minds.
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