Nevada’s Parasol Foundation AmeriCorps program has taken first place honors in the national 2010 AmeriCorps Getting Things Done Video Contest! We are so proud of them! We want to congratulate Jaime Olive, Vince Camiolo, Katy Washington of the PTCF AmeriCorps Team for their video called “Carrying Our Community.” To see the video go here: http://www.americorpscontest.org/PublicContent/Video/WatchVideo.aspx?videoId=754.…

When Nevada Volunteers formed a Student Group at the University of Nevada, Reno through their Higher Education Initiative, one of the projects the students decided to work on was a Volunteer Fair to promote volunteering in the community.

Here are my heroes! Watch my Bon Jovi video! Click the above link to help me win a Flip Video Camera for this blog. The most views win, so watch it again and again. Share with family and friends through email, FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace. I could really use the camera to help tell these stories,…

National Service members joined together in Las Vegas to make Martin Luther King Day a Day On, not a Day Off by marching in the MLK Day Parade and doing a service project for Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps members from LUZ Community Coalition participated and provided this PowerPoint. Thank you Luis Calderon for creating the slideshow and organizing these inspiring quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.