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 @pcorpsconnect: "The expertise and dynamism of this trained corps are now desperately needed on the home front." Members of the House an…
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RT @pcorpsconnect: "They could be immediately deployed to organizations and state and local agencies that are on the frontlines of the pand…
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RT @CityYearOrlando: Week 1 of digital learning is underway for @OCPSnews 📚 The @CityYear @AmeriCorps members at Evans High are sharing gre…
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RT @pcorpsconnect: Help secure the long-term future of #PeaceCorps by asking your Senators to support strong funding for the agency in its…
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RT @CivicEnterprise: Read @JohnMBridgeland and @TimShriver's call to service in the @washingtonpost. https://t.co/CO0hL6EBdW
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RT @LaurenMcgowan: Yes. Yes. Yes. I’m so inspired by the incredible impact @UnitedWayKC @AmeriCorps and @AmeriCorpsVISTA members are having…
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RT @VCStoryCounty: More ideas about how we can be engaged! https://t.co/UlO4Zf4IH4
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RT @missioncontinue: The COVID-19 pandemic fallout has demonstrated the importance of national service. @ServiceYear is excited about a rep…
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RT @Inspire2ServeUS: "We believe that the current moment requires a collective effort to build upon America’s spirit of service to cultivat…
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RT @JohnBKing: “In the absence of sympathetic, inspirational leadership, leadership is going to need to come from citizens in every sphere…
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RT @CivicEnterprise: "Where idealism should be rooted, there is a hole at the heart of our nation’s coronavirus response." Read the call…
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RT @ServeWisconsin: Thank you to @AmeriCorps members Carly and Brennan with @CollPossibleMKE for helping students impacted by #COVID19 scho…
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RT @ciscentraltx: During school closures, Communities In Schools of Central Texas staff and AmeriCorps members are working remotely. We con…
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RT @ServeIllinois: Check out how our Rend Lake "@AmeriCorps volunteers step up in time of need"! Way to #GetThingsDone during #COVID19, @LL…
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RT @AmeriCorps: great job Amber! https://t.co/TAviOZRCpK
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RT @AmeriCorps: 10 Ways to Safely Help Your Community During COVID-19. Learn More at https://t.co/is57lIXdye.
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RT @DaybookJobs: Job Opportunity! Service Year Alliance seeks a Director, Government Relations based in Washington D.C. @ServiceYear htt…
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RT @AmeriCorpsNCCC: Need Some Extra Time? We Got You. In light of the uncertainty surrounding the current COVID-19 pandemic, AmeriCorps NCC…
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RT @jud_crane: "Its key recommendation: create a national roster of Americans with critical skills ready to serve in a public emergency." h…