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 @AmeriCorpsAlums: EXCITING! Our friends @PictureEquality are hiring for two positions: Program Manager https://t.co/fGbqV4SNgH Program C…
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RT @CNCS_CEO: Thank you @FLOTUS & @WhiteHouse for hosting today’s event! @SeniorCorps & @AmeriCorps share your commitment to building up ou…
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John McCain knew that having all young people do at least a year of #nationalservice would give them the liberating… https://t.co/ZYunYXRqeo
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RT @BereaPartners: Robert Roarke @LchsLeslie Leslie Co HS worked to transform his school from 228/234 in the state to a school of distincti…
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RT @LISC_AmeriCorps: “Developing relationships with the community is a critical component of public safety” Future @AmeriCorpsAlums in acti…
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".. we have seen the positive impact of @AmeriCorps members’ service in cities across the country – not just on the… https://t.co/zjc0aTjXmN
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RT @CitiesOfService: #Stand4Service @AmeriCorps @AmeriCorpsVISTA @NationalService Read our full statement regarding the recent @WhiteHouse…
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RT @AmeriCorpsNCCC: Bobby and Sotha met each other as members of AmeriCorps NCCC Class 1 and brought their experience full-circle by servin…
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RT @UAWildcatCorps: Successful Ropes Course Challenge event for our members! The day was packed with fun high ropes adventures, team buildi…
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RT @VTAmeriCorps: #VYDC #AmeriCorps member & @HyattsvillMD native, Laura Caldwell, serves @LCMaritimeM in @VergennesVT. Laura uses prior #C…
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RT @WilhelmForNH: Great front page @UnionLeader article today highlighting Recovery Corps — a powerful new @AmeriCorps program deployin…
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RT @AmeriCorpsAlums: Really incredible story of service and leadership. MUST WATCH. https://t.co/gAG5IiAQLd
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RT @rvperreault: A HUGE thank you to @CC_NH @AmeriCorpsVISTA Maddie Odell for her year of service as the CCNH Volunteer & Recruitment VISTA…
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RT @jenniferney: Powerful LTE re: @WhiteHouse budget cuts in @JoplinGlobe: "After the horrible 2011 tornado in Joplin...@AmeriCorps stepped…
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RT @mackenziemoritz: @serviceyear corps members & alums: Have a start-up idea? Interested in what the start-up ecosystem is doing to create…
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RT @KenvinLacayo: @JulianHipkins @RooseveltHSDC @AYPF_Tweets @ServiceYear @TheLiteracyLab Thank you so much Mr. Hipkins, every single oppor…
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RT @KenvinLacayo: @ServiceYear @AYPF_Tweets @TheLiteracyLab @MBK_Alliance @AmeriCorpsAlums Thank you so much for everything! I appreciate t…
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Here's the video of Kenvin's amazing speech. @JulianHipkins @jjhetts @AYPF_Tweets @RooseveltHSDC @AmeriCorps… https://t.co/7tnja2qXev