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What Happened Last Year? How Can Mayors Get Involved? On April 9,2013,the first-ever Mayors Day of Recognition Mayors are encouraged to hold a public event,issue a for National Service united Mayors across the country to proclamation or other form of recognition,and use spotlight the impact of national service and honor those traditional or social media to highlight the impact of who serve.Altogether, 832 Mayors in all 50 states and the national service. Here are several ways mayors can District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico officially participate: recognized the work that AmeriCorps members and ■ Issue a mayoral proclamation naming April 1, 2014 as Senior Corps volunteers are doing to make cities better and National Service Recognition Day stronger.Together,these Mayors represent nearly 100 million 0 Visit national service programs or projects in order to citizens,or nearly one-third of all Americans. To learn highlight their value to the city how Mayors across the country recognized the day,visit 0 Create a Mayor's award for outstanding AmeriCorps our website at wwwnafionalservice.gov/mayorsforservice and Senior Corps participants ■ Invite national service programs (and their members What are the Goals of the Day? and organization's board of directors) to City Hall for a ■ Highlight how mayors use national service to solve public roundtable to discuss how they address city their local challenges problems ■ Thank national service members for their commitment ■ Issue a press release or report on the scope and impact and impact of national service in your city ■ Build public awareness about the value and impact of ■ Serve with a national service program as a "member" national service to the nation's cities for a day to highlight the important work being done in ■ Highlight the role that national service plays in their community recruiting and managing citizen volunteers to focus and ■ Use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets amplify their impact to thank national service programs and members ■ Provide opportunities for mayors to communicate serving in your community about the impact of national service to national policy- ■ Write an op-ed about the unique contributions of makers national service your city ■ Generate press coverage and online discussion about ■ Take a group photo with all national service members mayors supporting service in your city Who Can Participate? Where Can I Learn More? Mayors, city or county managers, or other chief executives To learn more or register your city to participate,go to of cities of any size. www.nationalservice.gov/mayorsforservice or contact PJ Andrews, Office of Government Relations, How We Can Help 202-606-6613 or pandrews @cns.gov.You can also CNCS offers a variety of resources that can help Mayors contact the CNCS Director in your state. A list of learn about national service and volunteering in their cities CNCS state offices can be found here: expand the scope and impact of volunteering by their http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/contact/ residents: stateoffices.asp ■ The annual Volunteering and Civic Life in America report is the most comprehensive data on volunteering About CNCS ever assembled,providing detailed information on The Corporation for National and Community Service is volunteering trends and demographics in the U.S.,all a federal agency that engages more than five million fifty states,and more than 150 major cities.Visit: Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior wwwvoluntecringinamerica.gov Corps, Social Innovation Fund, and other programs,and ■ Each year, CNCS produces National Service State leads President's national call to service initiative, United Profiles that list all funding,projects, and participants in We Serve. For more information,visit every state. CNCS will also produce profiles for cities NationalService.gov in preparation for the Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service. C"'p aft,"f- November 2013 NATIONAL& 1201 New York Ave.,NW *Washington,DC 20525 * 202-606-5000 COMMUNITY SERVICES NationalService.gov