Serve America: Volunteering in the Age of Facebook, YouTube & Twitter

Serve America: What Is Your Impact?

Volunteering in the Age of Facebook, YouTube & Twitter

A Millennial Model of Civic Engagement

• Inclusivity, Transparency & Shared Decision Making

• Listen to conversations are existing & integrate into them

• Millennials are social creatures

• Combining forces to achieve goal

A Civic Generation

• The 9/11 Effect• The Age of Obama• A Deep Economic Recession• New Tools of Engagement

ServiceNation Summit

Volunteering in America: 2008

• 61.8 Million Americans volunteered over 8 billion hours, worth an estimated $162 billion

• Half of new volunteers were ages 16-24• 9.8 Million Millennials donated over 1 billion

hours of volunteer time

Youth Volunteerism 2008

A New Era of Service

• President Obama’s Inaugural Address• The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act• United We Serve• 9/11 National Day of Service and

Remembrance • Application Rates for AmeriCorps, City Year

Serve America Act

• Expands Number of National Service Participants to 250,000– Focuses on specific problems by creating new

corps• Expands opportunities to serve for all ages– Service Learning, Volunteer Generation Fund,

Encore Fellowships• Encourages innovation in Nonprofit Sector– Social Innovation Fund

United We Serve

9/11 National Day of Service

Service As A Solution

• Problems must be addressed from the bottom-up; not the top-down

• Cross-sector, public-private partnerships must be forged

• Millennials are leading the way, through social media & Web 2.0 they are communicating about & taking action on issues like never before

myImpact.org

• Engage More Young people in Service• Increase the Effectiveness of Service Programs• Advance Service as a Solution to National

Problems

Connect With Us

• Facebook.com/myImpact• Twitter.com/myImpact– @myImpact– #myImpact

• YouTube.com/myImpactdotorg• Flickr.com/photos/myImpact• info@myImpact.org

Tools for Engaging Volunteers

• Facebook• Twitter• YouTube• Flickr• Ning• Serve.gov & All For Good• Blog, RSS• Mobile Applications

The Conversation: The Art of Listening, Learning Sharing

Facebook-Fan Page

Facebook-Causes

YouTube

Flickr

Ning

Serve.gov

All for Good