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	Going Half-Way The Non-Profit Times The Student Conservation Association (SCA) allows high school and college students on conservation projects, like restoring national parks and urban green spaces, across the country. The Charlestown, N.H.-based organization has the students send personal, handwritten thank-you letters to mid-...Read more
	Richmond teens learn about Rosie the Riveter through creation of documentary Oakland Tribune Many women entered the work force for the first time in the 1940s, filling factory jobs vacated by men fighting in World War II. Read more
	Conversations with Gardner: Seeking internships The Arbiter Online Hanging in the Communication Building, a ﬂyer for conservation internships directs students to graduate teaching assistant Wayne Rysavy.As an alumnus of the Student Conservation Association, he informs students of various opportunities available to them through internships.”I really encourage...Read more
	Volunteers clean up the Potomac River WTOP Text By Michelle Basch, WTOP Radio, Photo by SCALitterbugs leave local rivers loaded with garbage, but the situation is improving with today’s 21st annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup.More than 12,000 volunteers got down and dirty, helping with this year’s cleanup at more than 400 sites in DC...Read more
	Subcommittee On National Parks, Forests And Public Lands Legislative Hearing On H.R. 1612 House Committee On Natural Resources SCA President Dale Penny and SCA Alum Marcus Hendricks spoke at the hearing. Highlights include Marcus relating the story of recruiting his sister to volunteer with SCA, and choosing volunteering with SCA, instead of earning money to buy a new iPod.Marcus Hendricks, SCA Alum (left) and Dale...Read more
	Old School Stimulus The New Yorker As a teen-ager, when I lived outside of Washington D.C., I went backpacking with friends along the Appalachian Trail, which runs from Maine to Georgia. Every ten miles or so the white blazes that mark the main trail would intersect with blue blazes leading off to roughly constructed but reliably...Read more
	Economy Down, Service Applications Up New Hampshire Union Leader Amid a weak job market, organizations that offer recent college graduates opportunities to perform volunteer service are seeing significant application increases.Through February, the City Year service program had received nearly three times as many applications as it did through February 2008,...Read more
	Public Lands Service Bill To Promote Culture Of Public Service - H.R. 1612 Washington, DC - In order to help repair and restore our nation’s public lands while employing and training thousands of young Americans and promoting a culture of public service, U.S. Reps. Raúl M. Grĳalva (D-AZ) and Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) introduced the Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2009 (...Read more
	Public Lands Service Bill To Promote Culture Of Public Service - H.R. 1612 Washington, DC - In order to help repair and restore our nation’s public lands while employing and training thousands of young Americans and promoting a culture of public service, U.S. Reps. Raúl M. Grĳalva (D-AZ) and Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) introduced the Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2009 (...Read more
	Alternative Spring Break Kicks Off various Photo by Michael Suttner Read more

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