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Points of Light CEO Michelle Nunn contributed an insightful article about the positive impact of volunteer leaders on the service sector as part of the Catchafire/Fast Company Co.Exist series. You can read the full article here.
Shoreh Elhami is a volunteer with the GISCorps, a volunteer program under the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), an International professional organization for GIS professionals.
Volunteers within the GISCorps are geospatial professionals who provide technical services in the areas of geographic information systems, remote sensing and global positioning systems. Among many other projects, Shoreh and other GISCorps volunteers have been instrumental in providing vital service location for refugees in Cairo; GIS capacity building in Afghanistan, medical care referrals for the poor in Central America, development of a national web map portal of volcanoes in Armenia; and mapping genocide events in Darfur and Chad. The volunteers create a connection with their clients who need assistance or want to create a better way of life by providing their services either on-site or remotely.
Moreover, the volunteers strengthen local capacity by helping them adopt and use information technology. GISCorps volunteers' services help to improve the quality of life by supporting humanitarian relief, enhancing environmental analysis, fostering economic development, supporting community planning, and supporting health and education related activities.
Volunteers with the GISCorps provide much needed technical services across an enormous set of environmental, disaster relief, human rights, historic preservation, economic development, election monitoring and educational applications. That is what makes Shoreh a Daily Point of Light.
Atlanta, Jan. 24, 2012 – Registration is now open for the 2012 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, June 18-20 in Chicago. Convened by Points of Light, the Conference is the leading gathering of its kind, bringing together more than 5,000 service leaders to learn and cultivate new ideas for service, discuss challenges and work together to create solutions through the power of people.
Atlanta, Jan. 18, 2012 – Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, marked the beginning of their year of service by honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and contributing their time, talent, voice and money to improve their communities on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Jan. 16.
Atlanta, January 17, 2011 — GenerationOn , the youth activation enterprise of Points of Light , has named Concetta Bencivenga as executive director. The global youth service movement ignites the power of all kids to make their mark on the world. With Bencivenga’s leadership experience and lifelong devotion to service, generationOn will continue its momentum into 2012, inspiring young people across the country to create positive change.
Atlanta, Jan. 17, 2011 — Points of Light welcomes Al Carter as its new chief operating officer. Carter is a proven senior executive with broad management experience at a variety of unique organizations and operating environments for more than three decades. Carter’s appointment as COO comes at the opportune time to utilize his expertise to help mobilize 3.5 million people to use their time, talent, voice and money to create community change in 2012.
Steeped in a tradition that calls to “make it a day on, and not a day off,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (MLK Day) is rooted in service to our community. The spirit of service that is highlighted each year during the MLK, Jr. Day of Service inspires many to want to serve on a more regular basis. In the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, many people can thank Rachel Turner for the opportunity to serve on MLK, Jr. Day and beyond. Operating out of Philadelphia, Rachel creates and manages sustainable, year-round volunteer programming the MLK365 program. In addition, each MLK, Jr. Day, she is responsible for managing the outreach and registration process for hundreds of organizations and thousands of volunteers that participate throughout the tri-state area.
As you might expect with someone so integrally involved in MLK, Jr. Day, Rachel is deeply committed to an ethic of service. Prior to her work with the MLK365 program, Rachel served two terms of service in AmeriCorps during 2008 and 2009. As an alumnus of this national service program, Rachel remains deeply committed to the pledge to carry her AmeriCorps commitment with her beyond her term of service. She also currently serves as the Chapter President of the Philadelphia Chapter of AmeriCorps Alums and routinely leads service and professional development opportunities for alumni in the Philadelphia area.
WABE– January 9, 2012- Dr. Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core and a scheduled speaker at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, was interviewed this morning on WABE. He talked extensively about the power of service – especially among young people – to bridge cultural and religious divides and facilitate change. He specifically called out HandsOn Network and Michelle Nunn as a leader in providing service opportunities that celebrate Dr.
The very first State of the World’s Volunteerism Report (SWVR) by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme was launched on Dec. 5, 2011, in many countries around the world.
The Report is expected to enhance recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteerism worldwide. It will also increase recognition of the critical role of UNV as an organization that sets standards in peace and development, as well as in volunteerism, in the United Nations system.
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