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President Celebrates USA Freedom Corps Six-Month Anniversary with New Public Service Ads and Breakthrough Web Site
President George W. Bush marked the six-month anniversary of his USA Freedom Corps by launching a public service advertising campaign and redesigned and upgraded web site that will help Americans answer his "Call to Service."
The public service advertising campaign features the President and several celebrities, including New York Yankee Mariano Rivera, actress Angie Harmon, and former Senators Robert Dole and John Glenn. The campaign titled "Everyone Can Do Something," includes television and radio ads in English and Spanish, as well as print ads and web banners.
The redesigned web site, usafreedomcorps.gov, includes the USA Freedom Corps Volunteer Network - the most comprehensive clearinghouse ever offered to help individuals find service opportunities in their hometowns, across the country, or around the world.
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Public Service Announcements
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, of all academic majors, who commit two years to teach in public schools in low-income communities. Over the past 12 years, Teach For America has placed 8,000 corps members in sixteen urban and rural areas. They have helped more than one million children gain the opportunities they deserve.
President Stresses Volunteerism at Atlanta High School
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St. Louis Cares began operation in April 1999. It is a nonprofit entity established to help strengthen the community through volunteering. That's because volunteering effects positive change. The value of time volunteered by U.S. adults each year exceeds $200 billion annually. St. Louis Cares has been designed to make volunteering easy.
The mission of Philadelphia's Promise
is to improve the lives of children and youth by mobilizing and supporting volunteers
to provide access to all Five Promises, and increase resources to neighborhood
organizations. The Five Promises are: