Service Year Alliance
Model & Strategy
Service Year Alliance works to make service years a cultural expectation and common opportunity for every young American. A service year is a year of full-time, paid service in communities across the country and around the globe. It’s a chance for young people to develop essential skills while working on what really matters. It’s an extraordinary year that transforms participants, communities, and our society. Every year, there are 65,000 young people, typically 16-24 years old, doing service years in organizations such as Teach for America, City Year, Habitat for Humanity, and Peace Corps. Service Year is the result of a merger between ServiceNation, the Franklin Project, and the Service Year Exchange in 2015. Its founding Chairman is General (Ret.) Stan McChrystal.
Shirley Sagawa is the founding CEO of Service Year Alliance. She has been in the trenches with the national service movement since its inception. Shirley, a national expert on children and youth policy, served as a presidential appointee in both the Bush and Clinton administration. As deputy chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton, she advised the First Lady on domestic policy. As special assistant to the President for domestic policy, Sagawa was instrumental to the drafting and passage of legislation creating the Corporation for National Service. After being confirmed by the Senate as the corporation’s first managing director, she led the development of new service programs for adults and students, including AmeriCorps.
IMPACT
This year, 66,000 young people, typically 16-24 years old, did a service year through organizations such as Teach for America, City Year, Habitat for Humanity, and the Peace Corps.
Service Year Alliance is the organization that will scale service years in America to 200,000 by 2023 and 1M in just a generation.
Service Year Alliance News
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Stanley McChrystal: Every American Should Serve For One YearThe Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation was honored to have General Stanley McChrystal join our annual retreat earlier this year. General McChrystal, Former Commander of Joint…Jun 2017 -
Nonprofit Mergers: The Missing IngredientShirley Sagawa, CEO of Service Year Alliance and founder of the Service Year Exchange, recently penned a case study for the Stanford Social Innovation Review on how…Oct 2016
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RT @ServeUSA2gether: "On #VeteransDay, we celebrate & honor America's #veterans who are already inspired to serve...But if you are a vetera…
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RT @Inspire2ServeUS: Today let’s also celebrate the extraordinary contributions #Veterans make after their military service – and find ways…
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.@JoshFryday on #VeteransDay: "I know through my own experience that service creates the opportunity for people to… https://t.co/5IbUriKXKR
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RT @AmeriCorpsAlums: Did you know that @UMSEAS currently offers to match the Segal @AmeriCorps Education Award at 100% for students that qu…
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.@NYCservice mentorship opportunity for @NYCVeterans & @AmeriCorps alumni who want to continue their legacy of serv… https://t.co/M9jagaIWhP
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RT @PublicAlliesIN: Calling all service year corps members & alums! Interested in furthering your education or finding a job after your #se…
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RT @MLCavanaugh: It's time for a strategic partnership between @AmericanLegion and @ServiceYear to make Gen. (ret) @StanMcChrystal's nation…
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RT @NationalService: In honor of #VeteransDay, which is just around the corner, here’s a #FlashbackFriday video of military veteran and @Am…
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RT @schoolsofhope: Calling all service year corps members & alums! Interested in furthering your education or finding a job after your #ser…
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RT @PublicAllies_NC: @PublicAllies_NC site director Cheri Selby Pearson attended the #CommunityChangeMakerSummit in September. There are so…
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RT @pcorpsconnect: Mark D. Gearan, @PeaceCorpsDir Jody Olsen and Barbara Stewart recently sat down and discussed the importance of young pe…
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RT @AmeriCorps: Congrats to @AmeriCorps member Molly Agrimson! The @OregonState graduate recently started serving in York, ME, where she’ll…
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Did you know that grad schools value your service year experience? Register for our virtual #highered fair on Nov 1… https://t.co/pDdmBijcNc
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RT @maxfinberg: Was proud to represent @AmeriCorpsVISTA in that same chair in 2017. Keep inspiring public servants! @AmeriCorpsAlums @state…
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RT @PeaceCorpsJody: It’s first year family weekend at @Harvard. I’m here with @CNCS_CEO Barbara Stewart and @harvardiop Director Mark Gear…
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RT @SandyScott1: At @harvardiop forum @CNCS_CEO Barbara Stewart discusses triple bottom line of @NationalService: 1) Positive impact on com…
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In September, participants from 38 communities gathered for our first-ever #CommunityChangeMakerSummit where local… https://t.co/mA82cCF5MI
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RT @emergingissues: S/O to our #ServiceYearNC director Darryl Lester @GivBack for representing IEI and our state as a Service Year Impact C…
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RT @SandyScott1: At #NCoC2019 conference at #UMD former U.S. Secretary of Education @JohnBKing of @EdTrust & @EmmaVadehra of @TheNext100 ca…
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RT @PALaborIndustry: #PennSERVE is proud to support #AmeriCorps programs like @CityYearPhilly and @PowerCorpsPHL, and partner with SERVE P…