ABOUT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE ST & THE FRANKLIN PROJECT 21 CENTURY
At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2012, General Stanley McChrystal received an overwhelming N ATIONAL response to his call for large-scale civilian national service to engage more Americans in serving community and country. The Aspen Institute established the Franklin Project in response to this call to action, to marshal the best case for a voluntary civilian counterpart to military service in the United States. SERVICE The Franklin Project’s vision is to establish a year of full-time national service as a common expectation and opportunity for all young Americans ages 18 to 28. Our goal is to create one million annual opportunities for civilian national service, on par with the number of Americans SUMMIT serving on active duty in our Armed Forces. We seek to dramatically expand opportunities for young Americans to contribute their strengths, knowledge, and entrepreneurial energy to solving our nation’s most pressing challenges, in areas such as education, health, food security, environmental conservation, veterans’ reintegration, and economic opportunity.
The Franklin Project seeks to unite leading Americans from all sectors alongside citizens at the grassroots in calling for and building this new vision of civilian national service. We propose to fuel the citizen service movement in America by making the case for a year of national service to become a new civic rite of passage that will bind members of generations to each other and to our nation, while enlisting them to work together to address great national challenges.
We are focusing on developing a 21st century architecture for national service that builds off of and strengthens the existing system while promoting new policy ideas to advance the national service movement. Our work has encompassed a series of gatherings of critical stakeholders and the publication of seminal papers at The Aspen Institute; briefings for the White House, Congress and governmental leaders; the development of the Franklin Project Plan of Action; and an action- inspiring Summit leading into the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2013, followed by a public campaign to be launched in the fall of 2013.
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National service has the power to transform individuals and communities, to create bridges and BUCKMINSTER FULLER DOME strengthen ties, and to bind generations to one another and to their country. Whether military or civilian, service establishes an ethic of togetherness that endures long after a tour of duty or a term as a corps PAEPCKE MEMORIAL BUILDING BENEDICT member. The Franklin Project is solution-oriented and pragmatic in its policy agenda and structure, but MUSIC TENT its vision is one of enduring cultural change – reaching deeply into how Americans can work together, BENEDICT MUSIC TENT regardless of differences, and unite in pursuit of the common good. BOETTCHER SEMINAR BUILDING BOETTCHER Thank you for your leadership, dedication, and belief in the promise of our great nation. America is too SEMINAR BUILDING big, and our challenges too expansive, for small ideas. Now, let’s get to work. eet r WN ASPEN t HARRIS HALL O S T
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21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMIT | JUNE 24-25 2013 | ASPEN COLORADO 21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMIT | JUNE 24-25 2013 | ASPEN COLORADO MONDAY, JUNE 24
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3:00-6:00PM EARLY REGISTRATION BARKSDALE LOBBY
6:00-9:00PM DINNER PROGRAM MCNULTY ROOM
SETTING THE STAGE: AMERICA NEEDS UNIVERSAL NATIONAL SERVICE INTRODUCTION RENÉ SPELLMAN Vice President, MWW Group; Millennial Working Group, The Franklin Project WELCOME WALTER ISAACSON President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
PRESIDENTIAL VIDEO ADDRESSES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 42nd President of the United States PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 43rd President of the United States
TESTIMONIALS OF MILITARY & CIVILIAN SERVICE JAKE WOOD Team Rubicon SIDRA BONNER Community Health Corps EVELYNE SANTIAGO City Year RANDY NELSON The Mission Continues SHAKIM JOHNSON Green City Force
A NEW AMERICAN RITE OF PASSAGE GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership Council Chair DAVID GERGEN CNN Senior Political Analyst; Director, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership; Former Senior Advisor to four U.S. Presidents
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: REALIZING 21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE
CLOSING REMARKS SENATOR HARRIS WOFFORD Former U.S. Senator; Franklin Project Senior Advisor
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
8:00-8:45AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION BARKSDALE LOBBY
9:00-10:30AM OPENING PLENARY SESSION MCNULTY ROOM
WELCOME EMCEE ROB GORDON Chief Strategy Officer, APX Labs; Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy WALTER ISAACSON President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
SERVICE AND THE NEXT GREATEST GENERATION REMARKS CHELSEA CLINTON Board Member, Clinton Foundation
A DEFINING AMERICAN IDEA MEL MARTINEZ Chairman, Southeast and Latin America and Vice Chair, JPMorgan Chase; Former US Senator and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development WENDY SPENCER CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMIT | JUNE 24-25 2013 | ASPEN COLORADO 1 TUESDAY, JUNE 25
THE FRANKLIN PROJECT PLAN OF ACTION INTRODUCTION & REMARKS MARIA SHRIVER Journalist, Author & Former First Lady of California JOHN BRIDGELAND CEO, Civic Enterprises; Former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council; Franklin Project Co-Chair ALAN KHAZEI Co-Founder, City Year; Founder, Be the Change; Franklin Project Co-Chair
10:30-11:00AM COFFEE & CONVERSATION BREAK BARKSDALE LOBBY
11:00AM-12:15PM MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS – POLICY AGENDA BREAKOUT ROOMS AS NOTED The goals of the morning breakout sessions are to clarify the content and impact of the policy ideas and to discuss strategies for implementation and long-term success. Each breakout will be co-facilitated by members of the Franklin Project Policy Council and other leaders who have helped to shape the policy ideas.
NATIONAL SERVICE CERTIFICATION KAUFMAN ROOM SHIRLEY SAGAWA Senior Policy Advisor, America Forward; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress MARTIN RODGERS Partner, Accenture JOHN KELLY Senior Advisor to the CEO and Director of Partnerships & Engagement, Corporation for National and Community Service
AGENCY & PROFESSIONAL CORPS CATTO BOARD ROOM ASIM MISHRA Chief of Staff, Corporation for National and Community Service ELISA VILLANUEVA BEARD Co-Chief Executive Officer, Teach for America
CIVILIAN SERVICE BY AND FOR VETERANS: THE GI BILL MCNULTY ROOM SPENCER KYMPTON President, The Mission Continues KEN HARBAUGH ServiceNation JESSICA GROSS CRAWFORD Government Affairs Director, America Forward/New Profit
FORGING NEW PATHWAYS TO SERVICE BERNHARD ROOM JAMIEL ALEXANDER President, YouthBuild National Alumni Council ABBY FALIK Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year STEVE PATRICK Executive Director, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions
FULFILLING THE VISION OF THE SERVE AMERICA ACT HINES SEMINAR ROOM ANNMAURA CONNOLLY President, Voices for National Service; Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Vice President, City Year BENJAMIN JEALOUS President and CEO, NAACP ZACH MAURIN Managing Director, ServiceNation; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project
MOBILIZING AMERICA AROUND NATIONAL SERVICE BASS TERRACE FAGAN HARRIS Director, Aspen Institute Impact Careers Initiative; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project SAM AYRES McChrystal Group; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project ERICA WILLIAMS Founder & CEO, EWS Strategies; World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project
THE NARRATIVE FOR A NEW CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE RESNICK GALLERY MATTHEW DOWD News Correspondent and Analyst, ABC News; Former Presidential Strategist MICHAEL GERSON Columnist,The Washington Post; Former Assistant to the President for Policy and Strategic Planning WES MOORE U.S. Army Captain (Ret.); Author, The Other Wes Moore; Host of Beyond Belief, Oprah Winfrey Network
2 21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMIT | JUNE 24-25 2013 | ASPEN COLORADO TUESDAY, JUNE 25
12:30-2:30PM LUNCH PLENARY SESSION BARKSDALE LOBBY AND MCNULTY ROOM
REPORTS FROM MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS A representative from each of the morning breakout groups will briefly report on the top implementation strategies discussed.
SERVICE AS A NATIONAL PRIORITY LAYSHA WARD President, Target Community Relations; Board Chair, Corporation for National & Community Service
PANEL DISCUSSION: NEXT GENERATION OF SERVICE This session will focus on the innovative ways in which national service is addressing our nation’s greatest challenges. Panelists will discuss how service is working in practice, and how its impact can be taken to scale in the 21st century. MODERATOR ARIANNA HUFFINGTON President, Chair and Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post
Veterans Reintegration and Civilian & Military Service MICHÈLE FLOURNOY Founder & Co-Chair, Center for a New American Security; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Education & The Dropout Crisis WENDY KOPP Founder & Chair, Teach for America; CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All
Environmental Conservation DIRK KEMPTHORNE Former Governor of Idaho, U.S. Senator & U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Poverty & Economic Opportunity GEORGE KHALDUN Chief Administrative Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone
Hunger & Food Security STEPHANIE SIMMONS Service Member, FoodCorps
International Service BARBARA BUSH CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps
REMARKS BRUCE REED Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President MICHAEL GERSON Columnist,The Washington Post; Former Assistant to the President for Policy and Strategic Planning
2:45-4:00PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS – OUR NEXT STEPS BREAKOUT ROOMS AS NOTED The goal of the afternoon breakout sessions is to discuss how key sectors can take concrete action to fulfill the vision of the Franklin Project and Plan of Action. Each breakout will be co-facilitated by sector leaders who will guide the conversation toward next steps.
HIGHER EDUCATION HINES SEMINAR ROOM SCOTT S. COWEN President, Tulane University; Former Member, White House Council for Community Solutions MARK GEARAN President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges; Former Director, Peace Corps; Former White House Director of Communications & Strategic Planning
MEDIA AND OPINION LEADERS RESNICK GALLERY DON BAER Worldwide Chair and CEO, Burson-Marsteller PAULA KERGER President and CEO, PBS RICHARD STENGEL Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
PHILANTHROPY AND CORPORATE SECTOR KAUFMAN ROOM STEPHEN HEINTZ President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund KATHY PAYNE Senior Director of Education Leadership, State Farm Insurance Companies
21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMIT | JUNE 24-25 2013 | ASPEN COLORADO 3 TUESDAY, JUNE 25
FAITH-BASED & NONPROFIT SECTOR BASS TERRACE JOHN DIIULIO Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Former Director, White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives JOSHUA DUBOIS Former Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships REV. LUIS CORTES President and CEO, Esperanza
NONPROFIT SECTOR MCNULTY ROOM MICHAEL BROWN Co-Founder and CEO, City Year CHERYL L. DORSEY President, Echoing Green
MILITARY AND VETERANS BERNHARD ROOM GENERAL JACK GARDNER U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Retired); Former Deputy Commander, European Command DR. VIVIAN GREENTREE Director of Research and Policy, Blue Star Families PATTY SHINSEKI Board of Advisors, White House Joining Forces Initiative; Board of Directors, Military Child Education Coalition
GOVERNMENT CATTO BOARD ROOM JONATHAN GREENBLATT Director, White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation CARRIE HESSLER-RADELET Deputy Director, Peace Corps MAYOR ANGEL TAVERAS Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
4:00-4:30PM COFFEE & CONVERSATION BREAK BARKSDALE LOBBY
4:30-5:30PM CALL TO ACTION & COMMITMENTS MCNULTY ROOM
ACTION INTRODUCTIONS & DECLARATION OF SERVICE KERRY SULLIVAN President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation AARON MARQUEZ U.S. Army Reserve; AmeriCorps Alumnus; Co-Founder, ServeNext
CALL TO ACTION ELLIOT GERSON Vice President of Policy & Public Programs, The Aspen Institute GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership Council Chair
COMMITMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS CLOSING REMARKS 5:30-6:30PM WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION BASS TERRACE AND BARKSDALE LOBBY
6:30-7:30PM NATIONAL SERVICE: A CIVIC RITE OF PASSAGE GREENWALD PAVILION Public Session in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION ELLIOT GERSON Vice President of Policy & Public Programs, The Aspen Institute GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership Council Chair
PANEL DISCUSSION MODERATOR EJ DIONNE, JR. Columnist, The Washington Post; Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution BARBARA BUSH CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU Mayor of New Orleans and Former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana WES MOORE U.S. Army Captain (Ret.); Author, The Other Wes Moore; Host of Beyond Belief, Oprah Winfrey Network
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