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California Volunteers

8 posts
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  • Environment & Sustainability

Sustainability: Suddenly the action is local.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 9, 2024
Ten years ago, we were searching for examples of local-level sustainability efforts. Now they are everywhere.
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  • Education

‘Uniting Americans through Service: How California is Leading’

  • Ben Speggen
  • January 19, 2023
California's Chief Service Officer discusses the California Volunteers' initiatives -- the impact CalVols is having in the state, and how it serves as a model nationwide at Jefferson Educational Society Global Summit event at the University of Redlands.
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  • Civic Life

Inside Our Towns: Josh Fryday, California’s Chief Service Officer

  • Ben Speggen and Evan Sanford
  • December 7, 2022
National division might grab headlines, but the story of uniting citizens through service in California is growing.
Renewal at all levels
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  • Media

‘Renewal’ at All Levels — The Personal to the Global. An Urgent Conversation with Two Leaders of the Movement

  • Ben Speggen
  • September 23, 2021
What can a conversation about 'Renewal' teach us about climate change?
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  • Civic Life

‘New Old Ideas’: A Modern CCC

  • James Fallows
  • May 24, 2021
American history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Crises keep cropping up—and so do ideas and solutions. Many innovations from the 1930s have new relevance for the post-pandemic 2020s. Here is an example, and the thinking behind it.
The burnt remains of trees in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, after the Cave Fire in 2019.
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  • Civic Life

A ‘Climate Corps’ of California Volunteers

  • James Fallows
  • September 28, 2020
Designed to address both the causes and the effects of California's exposure to climate change.
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  • Economic Development

From Military Service to Civilian Leadership

  • James Fallows
  • April 23, 2020
Here’s another installment in the chronicle of people who are trying to take up the slack, while the national government flails rather than coping with a pandemic. Previously in this…
Josh Fryday announcing the Civic Action Fellowship in February of this year.
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  • Citizen Engagement

A New Way for Californians to Serve

  • James Fallows
  • April 7, 2020
The coronavirus peril is global. Much of the response must, of course, be international or national if it is to matter at all. In the United States, only the federal…

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