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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, July 15, 2007

CONTACT: Sandy Scott
Phone: 202-606-6724
Email: sscott@cns.gov
   

PHOTO RELEASE: Images from Pre-Conference Activities of the 2007 National Conference on Volunteering and Service
 

The National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia offers many opportunities for service. Volunteers work on the frame for the a house that will be shipped by truck to Gulfport, MS. The house will be completed in Gulfport and presented to a family left homeless by the hurricanse that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
Click to Enlarge		 Volunteers use teamwork on the frame for a house that will soon provide shelter for a family left homeless by hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. The volunteers are attending the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
Click to Enlarge		 Gretchen Van der Veer, director of the Office of Leadership Development and Training at the Corporation for National and Community Service, takes a hammer to the house frame that is being constructed during the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia. The fram will be shipped to Gulfport, MS, where the house will be finished, then presented to a family left homeless by the hurricanes of 2005. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
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Volunteers including Corporation for National and Community Service Chief Financial Officer Jerry Bridges, second from the left, and Corporation Chief Operating Officer Liz Seale, fourth from left, raise a portion of the frame of the house that will be shipped from the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia to Gulfport, MS. Once it is finished in Gulfport, the house will become the home of a family left homeless by the hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
Click to Enlarge		 Among the volunteers at the building project at the National Converence on Volunteering and Service were, from the left, Liz Seale, Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service; Corporation Chief Financial Officer Jerry Bridges; Gretchen Van der Veer, director of the Corporation's Office of Leadership Development and Training, Todd Bernstein, founder and director of the annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service; and Brian Leffler, program director for YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
Click to Enlarge		 Volunteers display intense concentration as they build a playhouse during the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The playhouse will be donated to a Philadephia area recreation center or homeless shelter. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
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Volunteers proudly display their handiwork -- a playhouse that will donated to a recreation center or homeless shelter in the Philadelphia area. The playhouse was built as one of several service projects during the National Conference on Volunteering and National Service. Project partners included YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and YouthBuild USA. AmeriCorps members serving with the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School helped manage the build.
Click to Enlarge		 Members of the AmeriCorps*NCCC Team Red 4 of the Western Region Campus recently received a Spirit of Service Award in recognition of the team's hurricane recovery efforts in Pascagoula, MS. Presenting the award were NCCC Director Merlene Mazyck, left, and Hope Taft, former first lady of Ohio, far right. While in Pascagoula, the team organzied a day of service that resulted in 350 hours of service onctriubed by 40 volulnteers. By the end of their stay, team members had recruited 45 volunteers to continue serving in Pascagoula, as well as writing manugals for various positions and tasks to leave for future volunteers.
Click to Enlarge		 Jean Case, left, chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participaton, and David Eisner, right, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, present President's Volunteer Service awards to Mary Strasser, second from left, Pennsylvania State Office Director, and Karen Kaskey, Executive Director of PennSERVE: The governor's Office of Citizen Service during the National Service Reception at the 2007 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Strasser and Kaskey were honored for their role in hosting the conference in Philadelphia.
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