Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Actress Kerry Washington Reflects on National Conference on Volunteering and Service
Actress Kerry Washington shared comments with The Huffington Post about the conference, L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Awards and United We Serve. Read her reflections here. http://tr.im/sivq
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
New Web Site, New Blog
We have launched a new Web site for HandsOn Network, and a new blog is live on the homepage of the site: http://www.handsonnetwork.org
Please visit and update your Favorites folder with our new address!
Please visit and update your Favorites folder with our new address!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Thanks for the Votes: Target "Bullseye Gives" Campaign Results
HandsOn Network would like to express deep appreciation for the incredible support demonstrated by our friends during the Target “Bullseye Gives” campaign. Thanks to your efforts, HandsOn Network will receive more than $120,000 from Target.
This money will be used to further our mission to equip, mobilize and inspire people to take action that changes the world, particularly through our HandsOn Schools program. Thanks to your consistent voting, we can place volunteers in schools to serve as tutors and mentors; we can provide technological and educational resources for schools; and we can also purchase materials such as paint and bookshelves to refresh classrooms, revitalizing the atmospheres of learning facilities across the country.
Every vote mattered in this campaign, and we thank you sincerely for each click you made and each additional vote you leveraged through outreach to your own networks. “Bullseye Gives” demonstrated the truth behind the vision of Points of Light Institute, proving that every person has the power to make a difference. Each time you voted for us, you impacted the life of a student in America.
This campaign was an exciting new venture into social media for HandsOn Network, and we hope that you will continue to follow us and stay connected through Twitter and Facebook. We value our relationship with you and are grateful you chose to partner with us through this campaign!
This money will be used to further our mission to equip, mobilize and inspire people to take action that changes the world, particularly through our HandsOn Schools program. Thanks to your consistent voting, we can place volunteers in schools to serve as tutors and mentors; we can provide technological and educational resources for schools; and we can also purchase materials such as paint and bookshelves to refresh classrooms, revitalizing the atmospheres of learning facilities across the country.
Every vote mattered in this campaign, and we thank you sincerely for each click you made and each additional vote you leveraged through outreach to your own networks. “Bullseye Gives” demonstrated the truth behind the vision of Points of Light Institute, proving that every person has the power to make a difference. Each time you voted for us, you impacted the life of a student in America.
This campaign was an exciting new venture into social media for HandsOn Network, and we hope that you will continue to follow us and stay connected through Twitter and Facebook. We value our relationship with you and are grateful you chose to partner with us through this campaign!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Win 2 free tickets anywhere in the U.S. from Delta!
Become a fan of HandsOn Network on Facebook and you could win two free tickets anywhere Delta flies!
Vote for HandsOn Network in the Target "Bullseye Gives" campaign: http://www.facebook.com/target?v=app_74787998079&canvas=true
Then, click the "View profile" link under HandsOn Network.
Become a fan of our Facebook page!
Vote for HandsOn Network in the Target "Bullseye Gives" campaign: http://www.facebook.com/target?v=app_74787998079&canvas=true
Then, click the "View profile" link under HandsOn Network.
Become a fan of our Facebook page!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Target "Bullseye Gives" Campaign Kicks Off Today!
Today is the kick off for the Target “Bullseye Gives” Campaign! If you aren’t familiar with the campaign, we’ve been chosen to be one of 10 charities participating in Target’s inaugural “Bullseye Gives” campaign, running May 10 through May 25.
The premise is simple: Target is giving away $3 million and letting Facebook users decide where the money goes. The charities with the most votes will receive the biggest share of the prize. Voters are allowed to vote once a day throughout the campaign.
To reach our goal of $500,000, we’re calling on everyone to do as much as possible. The money raised will go to our educational initiatives, with 25% of it going directly to participating affiliates. This is new money, so every vote and every dollar counts! And this is a marathon—not a sprint. Every day for the next two weeks we will push to make progress towards this goal.
What do we need you to do? Two simple things:
Vote, Vote, Vote: Log on to http://www.facebook.com/target and go to the VOTE tab to vote for HandsOn today and every day of the campaign (1 vote per day maximum).
Help us spread the word: Contact your friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances, and encourage all of them to vote. Then encourage them to spread the word to others.
You can also spread the word in the following ways (if you have social media pages/accounts):
1. Tweet about the campaign on Twitter and encourage people to vote.
2. Invite your network on Facebook to vote and become fans of HandsOn Network.
3. Invite your network on MySpace to vote and join the Facebook HandsOn page.
4. Blog about the campaign in your blog.
5. Comment on other blogger’s pages about the campaign.
We really appreciate your efforts in leveraging this opportunity and look forward to celebrating the success of this inaugural social media campaign!
The premise is simple: Target is giving away $3 million and letting Facebook users decide where the money goes. The charities with the most votes will receive the biggest share of the prize. Voters are allowed to vote once a day throughout the campaign.
To reach our goal of $500,000, we’re calling on everyone to do as much as possible. The money raised will go to our educational initiatives, with 25% of it going directly to participating affiliates. This is new money, so every vote and every dollar counts! And this is a marathon—not a sprint. Every day for the next two weeks we will push to make progress towards this goal.
What do we need you to do? Two simple things:
Vote, Vote, Vote: Log on to http://www.facebook.com/target and go to the VOTE tab to vote for HandsOn today and every day of the campaign (1 vote per day maximum).
Help us spread the word: Contact your friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances, and encourage all of them to vote. Then encourage them to spread the word to others.
You can also spread the word in the following ways (if you have social media pages/accounts):
1. Tweet about the campaign on Twitter and encourage people to vote.
2. Invite your network on Facebook to vote and become fans of HandsOn Network.
3. Invite your network on MySpace to vote and join the Facebook HandsOn page.
4. Blog about the campaign in your blog.
5. Comment on other blogger’s pages about the campaign.
We really appreciate your efforts in leveraging this opportunity and look forward to celebrating the success of this inaugural social media campaign!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Michelle Nunn's Reflections: National Volunteer Week 2009
It has been an amazing week that has demonstrated the power of people in action changing their communities, their world, and themselves in the process. On Tuesday, April 21, I had the great privilege of joining together with other service leaders and Congressional leaders for the Bill signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. It was an electric moment when President Obama walked out with Senator Kennedy and Bill Clinton to join Congressional Leaders on the stage. After 16 years, we have new authorizing bi-partisan legislation for service, and it is a transformational bill that calls for the largest expansion of service and civic action since FDR. The day after the bill signing, we celebrated National Volunteer Week with two momentous events: The Extra Mile Induction Ceremony and the National Volunteer Week Reception. We inducted eight "service greats" that included John Muir the Founder of the Sierra Club and Wallace Campbell, Founder of CARE. Dr. Timothy P. Shriver, Chairman, Special Olympics, keynoted the ceremony with extraordinary inspiration and passion -- helping us see this special monument and these change agents as examples that invite and beckon us to believe that anything is possible and to make the invisible injustices that society blindly accepts visible.
A special thank you to more than 300 national leaders, members of Congress and corporate, civic and community leaders who paid tribute to Senators Kennedy and Hatch. We had the pleasure of having Grammy Award winning artist Usher Raymond IV attend the National Volunteer Week Reception -- a strong supporter of service and volunteerism for youth. Another round of thanks to our corporate partners: Chevron, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, GE, The Home Depot, SAP, Textron, Inc.
Also this week, in partnership with Nike Stores, we recognized 20 outstanding Athletes*Serve Gamechangers, youth between the ages of 13 - 25 who leveraged the power of sports as a tool for social change.
And in partnership with Scholastic, we launched the Be Big in Your Community Contest with everyone's favorite Scholastic character, Clifford. Clifford visited five elementary schools across the country with our affiliates in Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia to get children excited about the Be Big! contest by engaging them in BIG thinking about how they would use Clifford's Big Ideas to make their own community a better place.
Our four-year partnership with L'Oreal Paris also took on a new dimension this week as we aligned the nominations for the Women of Worth program to begin during National Volunteer Week and extend until July 13th. The program honors women whose service and dedication to volunteerism are making a difference in the world.
History has truly been made this week, but this is only the beginning. There is still so much more work to be done and it begins this weekend with service projects happening at our HandsOn affiliates across the country -- including a 5,000 person Hands On New York Day (sponsored by HSBC) to restore green spaces and parks. With this new bi-partisan legislation inspiring a nation of people with a renewed call to service, we are excited to work together to fulfill the promise and hope of this week.
Yours in Service,
Michelle Nunn
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
National Volunteer Week 2009: "Celebrating People in Action"
The 2009 National Volunteer Week theme, Celebrating People in Action, captures the meaning behind this signature week: honoring the individuals who take action and solve problems in their communities. This celebratory week will also focus national attention on the impact and power of volunteerism and service as an integral aspect of our civic leadership. Established in 1974 by former President Richard Nixon, National Volunteer Week has grown exponentially in scope each year, drawing the support and endorsement of all subsequent U.S. presidents, governors, mayors and other respected elected officials, as well as corporate and community groups across the country.
Two significant national days of service are also celebrated under the umbrella of this week: Earth Day on April 22 and Global Youth Service Day on April 24-26. This year, the focus on both the environment and service as essential to the development of the next generation of youth will resonate throughout the weeklong commemoration and in the public and media relations messaging push that Points of Light Institute is leading.
Points of Light Institute and HandsOn Network are presenting several milestone events this week:
Extra Mile Induction Ceremony: April 22, 2009
Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Points of Light Institute will induct five new Extra Mile honorees at a special Induction ceremony and walking tour of the monument. 2009 Extra Mile Inductees include: Clifford Beers, Founder,Modern Health Movement; Rachel Carson, Environmentalist; John Muir, Conservationist; Samuel Gompers, Founder, American Federation of Labor and Robert Smith and William Wilson, Co-Founders, Alcoholics Anonymous.
Capitol Hill Reception: April 22, 2009
Russell Senate Building, Senate Caucus Room, Washington, DC 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Points of Light Institute is hosting a Congressional reception in recognition of National Volunteer Week, celebrating volunteers across the nation and honoring Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Orrin G. Hatch for their lifetime of leadership in service and volunteerism. The event is the cornerstone of the week’s activities and will include special focus on the significance of a new day and the landmark legislation that has the potential to transform our nation by increasing the access and opportunity for all Americans to serve.
Corporate hosts for the event include Chevron, GE, The Coca-Cola Company and SAP. Corporate Partners include Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot and Textron, Inc.
HandsOn Network Signature Events: April 19-25, 2009
HandsOn Network affiliates, AmeriCorps Alums, Kids Care Clubs and faith organizations will collaborate with our corporate partners and nonprofit organizations to showcase and celebrate volunteers in action. This celebration will include recognition ceremonies and service projects focused on solving community problems in education, the environment and the economy.
Two significant national days of service are also celebrated under the umbrella of this week: Earth Day on April 22 and Global Youth Service Day on April 24-26. This year, the focus on both the environment and service as essential to the development of the next generation of youth will resonate throughout the weeklong commemoration and in the public and media relations messaging push that Points of Light Institute is leading.
Points of Light Institute and HandsOn Network are presenting several milestone events this week:
Extra Mile Induction Ceremony: April 22, 2009
Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Points of Light Institute will induct five new Extra Mile honorees at a special Induction ceremony and walking tour of the monument. 2009 Extra Mile Inductees include: Clifford Beers, Founder,Modern Health Movement; Rachel Carson, Environmentalist; John Muir, Conservationist; Samuel Gompers, Founder, American Federation of Labor and Robert Smith and William Wilson, Co-Founders, Alcoholics Anonymous.
Capitol Hill Reception: April 22, 2009
Russell Senate Building, Senate Caucus Room, Washington, DC 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Points of Light Institute is hosting a Congressional reception in recognition of National Volunteer Week, celebrating volunteers across the nation and honoring Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Orrin G. Hatch for their lifetime of leadership in service and volunteerism. The event is the cornerstone of the week’s activities and will include special focus on the significance of a new day and the landmark legislation that has the potential to transform our nation by increasing the access and opportunity for all Americans to serve.
Corporate hosts for the event include Chevron, GE, The Coca-Cola Company and SAP. Corporate Partners include Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot and Textron, Inc.
HandsOn Network Signature Events: April 19-25, 2009
HandsOn Network affiliates, AmeriCorps Alums, Kids Care Clubs and faith organizations will collaborate with our corporate partners and nonprofit organizations to showcase and celebrate volunteers in action. This celebration will include recognition ceremonies and service projects focused on solving community problems in education, the environment and the economy.
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