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The Summit

Schedule of Events

The President's Declaration

Transcript: Colin Powell On CNN's "Larry King Live"

Web Watch
Check out sites associated with the summit. The web offers plenty of others for getting started in volunteering too.

Interact

Voter's Voice
As the summit kicks off this weekend, send us your thoughts and stories on volunteering.

Take A Stand
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Bulletin Boards
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Galvanized For Action

The Presidents' Summit For America's Future ended today with delegates heading back to the grass roots to pursue their goal: to improve the lives of two million needy children by 2000.

Several of the meeting's big guns were on hand to end the event with a flourish. "This summit, these commitments, they are about the habits of the heart that make us Americans," First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told delegates at Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall.

Full Story

Top Headlines

• A Call For 'Big Citizenship' (4/28)
• All Eyes On The General (4/28)
• Clinton Proposes Expansion Of AmeriCorps (4/28)
• Powell: 'Let's Go Save Our Children' (4/27/97)
• Calling All Volunteers (4/25/97)
• CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll: Few Volunteer Regularly (4/25/97)
• TIME: The Corporate Crusaders: Are Companies Right For Solving Social Problems? (4/27/97)
• TIME: Colin Powell's New Crusade (3/17/97)
• Clinton, Bush Boost A Volunteer Summit (1/24/97)

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