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Dear City Year Community,

Today, on Veterans Day, at a ServiceNation event in our nation’s capital, we join together with leaders of military and civilian service organizations to honor the service and sacrifice of those who serve our country. We are honored to be joined by First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Alma Powell, three of the nation’s most inspiring advocates for service, to recognize our nation’s veterans and launch Mission Serve, an exciting initiative to strengthen the patriotic bonds shared by military and civilian service organizations.

City Year is a convenor - with Be the Change, Civic Enterprises and Points of Light Institute - of ServiceNation, a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate service as a core ideal and problem-solving strategy in American society. Mission Serve is designed to provide assistance to military families and veterans in need of services and to provide opportunities for returning veterans to continue to act on their desire to serve their country through community service here at home.

You can watch this Veterans Day event, also featuring the Corporation for National and Community Service Acting CEO Nicola Goren and MTV News Correspondent Sway Calloway, on MTV and ServiceNation starting at 2 pm ET.

City Year alumnus and U.S. Army Sergeant Timothy Brian Mahoney will be a featured speaker at the event. Tim was in the 1993 Boston corps and furthered his commitment to service in the United States Army and has been deployed twice to Iraq. He has been invited to share his perspective on what civilian and military service have in common, and how they can grow stronger through Mission Serve.

The Mission Serve initiative is chaired by City Year Senior Vice President for Civic Leadership, Col. (Ret.) Robert L. Gordon, III. Like Tim, Rob embodies a spirit of service and love of country that is shared by those in military and civilian service. Rob is presenting Alma J. Powell, chair of America’s Promise Alliance and wife of General Colin Powell, with the first annual ServiceNation Award for Excellence in Military and Civilian Service for a lifetime of service to our children, communities and nation.

We are grateful to Bank of America, a National Leadership Sponsor of City Year, for its sponsorship of the Mission Serve initiative. For more information on ServiceNation and Mission Serve, click here.

Please join me and all of us at City Year as we salute America’s veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice.

Yours in service,

Michael Brown
CEO and Co-Founder
City Year, Inc.

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