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 @Inspire2ServeUS: To mark @AmeriCorps' silver anniversary, we put together this list of 25 ways AmeriCorps members meet needs, strengthe…
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RT @NationalService: Couldn’t attend @BrookingsInst's Oct. 10 #NationalService event? You can now watch it on YouTube 📺! Here’s a recording…
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Interested in going to grad school after a #serviceyear? Register for our #highered fair on Nov 14th — participants… https://t.co/KQ9D69s4QG
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RT @YellowCabNY: .@PeteButtigieg's #nationalservice plan ... would expand voluntary public service programs like @AmeriCorps + @PeaceCorps…
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RT @LornaARose: Say yes to national service. I did and it completely changed my life #nationalservice #americorps @AmeriCorpsAlums @AltAm…
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RT @YellowCabNY: In his closing remarks @PeteButtigieg calls out #nationalservice as a solution that can unite and heal the country @ServeU…
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In his closing statement at the #DemDebate, @PeteButtigieg calls for expanding #nationalservice as a way for Americ… https://t.co/V7NDGUkvVh
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RT @AmeriCorps: On Oct. 10, @BrookingsInst hosted an event about #NationalService. The third panel featured several former and current @Ame…
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RT @AmeriCorps: To help address the opioid crisis, @NationalService devoted 27.9M to @AmeriCorps & @SeniorCorps projects supporting substan…
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RT @Philanthropy: At tonight's #DemDebate, nonprofits are trying to pin down candidates’ positions on national service and tax incentives f…
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"Step one for us is to elevate [#nationalservice], making it as critical a part of the election as health care.” -… https://t.co/m3PkoBaasU
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RT @ArtistYear: The percentage of Americans who say others can be trusted fell from 46% in 1972 to just 31% in 2016. Can @NationalService r…
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RT @DennisServiceYr: Calling all service year corps members & alums! Interested in furthering your education or finding a job after your #s…
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RT @reneeisto: I really appreciate being able to connect w/ people over service. I met a couple today (for pet sitting purposes) that met e…
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RT @CivicEnterprise: Did you miss yesterday's discussion about the country's need for national service? Watch here! #nationalservice @Brook…
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"The advocates of expanded #nationalservice [say it] would make the nation more cohesive because participants would… https://t.co/FWaRKPvWfL