12/17/2007:
The Corporation for National and Community Service is offering a free webinar, My MLK Day Tech Tool Webinar, and you can sign up to participate in the webinar for either Dec 18 or Jan 8. Visit for more info:
http://www.mlkday.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=859 You do need to register so if interested please make sure you do that!
12/14/2007:
I got the following email from AmeriCorps earlier this week regarding MLK Day. (This is what Katie, Brenna, and I were talking about at the ICC meeting on 12/13). The link at the bottom of the e-mail goes to the "My Project Tool" in which you can look for MLK Day projects all over the country, and add your own. Hope this is helpful!
-Becky

Dear AmeriCorps members and alums:
We are just over a month away from the King Day of Service. We hope that each and every one of you are organizing or participating in the 2008 King Day of Service. By maximizing the involvement of the 7,000 national service grantees and partners, we can launch the King Day of Service to a whole new level of success and impact. I want to highlight some new online resources to support your project and to help expand the impact of King Day beyond a single day of service and more intentionally connect projects to Dr. King's teachings. Please visit http://www.mlkday.gov/about/beloved_community/index.asp.
The Corporation is also offering the following webinars that you and your partners may find helpful as you work to expand the scope and relevance of King Day beyond the day of service. To sign up for these sessions, please send an e-mail to Heather Karlin at hkarlin@ppv.org at least 24 hours before the scheduled webinar. You will then receive directions to access the training. Each webinar will be at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and a recording will be available afterward if you can't make the live session.
-Fri, Dec. 14Mentoring - January is National Mentoring Month. Learn how to utilize the 2008 MLK Day of Service effectively to recruit and match volunteer mentors by partnering with an existing mentoring program. Review of the elements of a successful mentoring model and instruction on how to manage volunteer retention through mentoring opportunities. -Tues, Dec. 18 Semester of Service - Learn how your project(s) can be developed into a Semester of Service that begins on King Day and extends through National and Global Youth Service Day - presented by Youth Service America -Tues., Jan. 8 40 Days of Nonviolence: Building the Beloved Community. Using Service as the vehicle to help build the Beloved Community. Learn how to identify and implement projects that reflect the 6 Steps and 6 Principles of Nonviolence.- Presented by Carolyn Harper and Malikah Berry. -Fri., Jan. 11 Mentoring- repeated
Finally, if you haven't done so yet, please register your organization and your King Day project at http://my.mlkday.gov/default.aspx. If you created an account last year, you should simply update that listing. Please register or update your projects not later than December 15. Thank you for helping make this the largest and best King Day of Service ever.
Rhonda Taylor Deputy Director of Corporate Relations Corporation for National and Community Service