MSN Public Service Announcement - Renew America Together and Be The Change

It is not too late to volunteer for the National Day of Service!

"Editor's note: In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, MSN is running a public service announcement for usaservice.org. Why is it running in this space, where we normally highlight interesting popular searches? Usaservice.org is all about searching for ways to help others out.

What's below was written by MSN staff.

Martin Luther King Jr. paid the steepest price in his service to his country. And his personal sacrifice in order to improve conditions for the less fortunate continues to inspire. On this MLK holiday weekend, one Web site in particular is asking you to get involved.

Usaservice.org is a nonprofit Web site from some of the people behind Barack Obama's wildly successfully campaign site. It calls for visitors to "renew America together." How? The premise is simple. It connects people to events and vice versa. A public service match-up, if you will.
They're asking people to volunteer during the holiday weekend -- and beyond.

The site makes it a snap to search for and find local volunteer opportunities as well as post a call for others to help with an event you're hosting. As of Jan. 14, more than 8,500 events have been registered on the site.

How can you get involved? It all starts here."

Source: http://specials.msn.com/Renew-America-Together.aspx

Additional information can be found on:

http://www.bethechangeinc.org/changewire/2009/01/08/mlk-day-videos/

Ready.gov Launches National Preparedness Month Blog

Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a partner in National Preparedness Month, was pleased to provide the following suggestion to Ready.gov and the Ad Council.

Thank you to the Ad Council and Ready.gov, it has definitely had an impact on many people.

For example, every mall we go to, you see the Ready.gov campaign. An excellent job has been done on awareness.

The real question is how do we reach all of the people who are too busy with soccer and band practice, picking up at religious school, meetings, etc.?

How do we reach those that are too busy to notice that sign in the mall?

As part of Ready.gov 2009 we need greater reach into the schools. A year long campaign that is focused on the PTAs, getting the message out through school newsletters.

Take it a step further and get the students active in preparedness.

If we look back at the stop smoking or drinking campaigns, was it not the youth of America that had some of the greatest impact on their parents?

Thanks again.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

http://citizencorps.blogspot.com

Comment Source: http://www.ready.gov/journal/2008/09/making-strides-in-preparedness.html#comment-form

National Preparedness Month - Coalition Partner

For the second year,

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

is a proud Coalition Member of National Preparedness Month 2008.

For additional information on National Preparedness Month, please visit

http://www.ready.gov/america/npm08/index.html

or

http://www.ready.gov/

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During the month of September,

in addition to multiple speaking engagements,

we will be comparing different

preparedness tips from around the world.