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National Service S U M M 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. J U N E 2 4 - 2 5 2 0 1 3 ASPEN COLORADO INTROD UCTION il RESNICK-MALEK ra HEALTH CENTER T CAMPUS Hiking l i a r Dear Friends, DOERR-HOSIER T CENTER e d Meadows Trail st an Welcome to the 21 Century National Service Summit. We are honored that you have joined us for this r eek (to Rio Grande Trail) MAP r G working summit to create a new civic rite of passage for all young Americans. tle C Rio s America needs universal national service. America’s young adults can help solve our country’s most Ca pressing challenges and, in the process, become connected to one another and to the nation. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are drawn down, and as our country faces new challenges and divisions R within and outside our own borders, we must rebuild a sense of common purpose through national oa ASPEN MEADOWS ring st service to meet the unique needs and opportunities of the 21 century. RECEPTION CENTER F or KRESGE BUILDING k Ri Since October 2012, the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute has convened top leaders from the v e military, government, non-profit, business, labor, philanthropic, education, faith-based, media, and r technology sectors to create a revolutionary plan: one that will enable full-time national service to oad WN ASPEN R O s T become a common expectation and opportunity for all young people in our nation. We have learned from w o WN these top leaders, listened to the views of the American people on national service through a nationally O Bike Path MeadO D representative survey, commissioned research on the economic case for national service, analyzed the T ANDERSON PARK evidence for how national service is meeting national challenges, and assembled a Leadership Council Hiking Trail of outstanding Americans from across sectors, administrations and political parties. Walking Path st We have developed a Plan of Action for a 21 Century National Service System that will offer at least one ASPEN MEADOWS RECEPTION CENTER million full-time civilian national service opportunities for young adults ages 18-28 every year, on par Plato’s, Meadows Restaurant, Hefner Lounge, Merrill Patio GREENWALD with the more than one million Americans who serve on active duty in our Armed Forces. Our Leadership PAVILION RESNICK-MALEK HEALTH CENTER Council has endorsed this plan, and we hope that each of you will be inspired to sign on as well. DOERR-HOSIER CENTER BUCKMINSTER You represent some of America’s most creative talent. We invited you to this Summit because the McNulty, Kaufman, Catto, FULLER DOME Resnick Gallery, Isaacson History Room Franklin Project’s vision demands the caliber of leadership, experience, and commitment to action that KOCH SEMINAR KRESGE BUILDING BUILDING you all demonstrate. We have designed this as a working summit with several breakout sessions and ample opportunities for everyone to participate so that it can lead to action and commitments. To engage GREENWALD PAVILION our entire nation and embed the concept of a civic rite of passage in our national identity for generations PAEPCKE MEMORIAL KOCH SEMINAR BUILDING to come, we ask you to join us in making this vision a reality. Booz Allen Hamilton, Lauder, Stranahan BUILDING 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 WE CYCLE SHUTTLE d r Yours in service, WN Bicycle Share See transportation hi O Station guide T O D T Stanley McChrystal Walter Isaacson John Bridgeland Alan Khazei 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 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER, ASPEN MEADOWS CAMPUS, ASPEN, COLORADO 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
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