I attended sessions today including a forum on how service can help on the road to economic recovery.  It was reassuring to see how many nonprofits and service leaders are united in fighting the foreclosure crisis. Our own AmeriCorps Recovery Fellows will begin work in the field soon, alongside current Equal Justice Works Fellows and Summer Corps students that are already engaged in this work and who are helping families stay in their homes. I wanted to introduce you to a new resource I learned about in this forum called TogetherforRecovery.org.  I had a chance to speak with someone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who told us about the website. It serves as a one-stop shop for foreclosure prevention and economic recovery tools. We’ll be working with them hopefully to include legal services – a necessity in fighting foreclosure – in this resource. More on that soon.

I also attended the National Service Town Hall meeting and luncheon hosted by the Corporation for National Community Service. In the meeting, Acting CEO Nicola Goren and her colleagues summarized findings from the national Serve America Act listening sessions and discussed what was next. Mainly, they are anticipating the appropriations process and will keep grantees posted on next steps and budget changes for the coming year. More here.

-Aaron