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Virtual Book Party with Davis Guggenheim
call in: (712) 432-0075
code: 182915
Brookline Booksmith. For more info click here
Dr. Oz Radio Show
Radio Boston Interview-WBUR
MassInc Breakfast with Alan and Tripp Jones, Executive Vice President of The Mentor Network
For more info click here
Greater Boston WGBH
Joint book event with Arianna Huffington and Alan Khazei
The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
For more info and to rsvp click here
Non-Profit Event at City Year, rsvp to bigcitizenship@gmail.com
John Podesta and Alan Khazei at the Center for American Progress. Click here for more inf
National Conference on Citizenship
Washington, DC For more information click here
Year Up Speaker Series in Boston
Hosted by the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle, Washington, The author of Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America joins P-I columnist Joel Connelly, city council member Tim Burgess, and others in a roundtable discussion. Food and a copy of book are included with your ticket. Cash bar.
For more info click here
Big Citizenship Book Party Hosted by Grockit
Host Committee (in formation):
Ken Ansin, Rick Aubry, Susan Colby, Lauren Dutton, Geoff Gibbs, Rusty Greiff, Farb Nivi, and Jennifer Wolfe
At Grockit:
2948 20th Street, Ste. 301
San Francisco, CA 94110
RSVP to jacob@grockit.com
Big Citizenship Book Party Hosted by Creative Artists Agency
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles
RSVP required:
mwalsh@bethechangeinc.org or 323-937-5356
Join City Year on Friday, October 1 for an inspiring kick-off event as 200 young leaders pledge a year of full-time service for the students and communities of Los Angeles. They will join more than 1,750 other diverse 17-24 year olds in 20 communities across America who will also be sworn in as City Year corps members that day. In Los Angeles this year, City Year corps members will work as tutors, mentors and role models to make a difference in the lives of more than 4,000 LAUSD students. When: October 1, 2010, 10:00 AM Featured Speakers: Please RSVP to Alex Mitchel at 213-265-4602 or amitchel@cityyear.org by September 24
Where: South Lawn, Los Angeles City Hall 200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join at Alan at Book Ends Winchester!
Alan will be in Winchester, MA at Book Ends Winchester for a book event and signing. This is the start of the Massachusetts book tour - it would be great to see all of Alan's local friends!
Meet Alan Khazei at Book Ends Winchester
Monday, October 4 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
559 Main Street, Winchester, MA 01890
Evening Downtown Boston Rotary Club Meeting
Rotarians, friends and prospective members are invited to our twice-a-month formal meeting at the UMass Club in the Financial District.
October 5, 2010
6:00pm Networking
6:30pm Club Meeting begins followed by speaker
7:15pm Meeting adjourns
UMass Club
225 Franklin Street
Floor 33
Boston MA 02210
Celebrate 30 years of Planting Seeds of Hope in Boston’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alan Khazei will be keynote speaker. For more info or to buy a ticket click here
BEING RESCHEDULED for November! Will post details on new date!
Titcomb's Bookshop Event on Cape Cod in Sandwich, MA!
Titcomb’s Bookshop will host a talk with City Year founder Alan Khazei on Tuesday October 12th at 7:00pm in the auditorium at Town Hall in Sandwich (130 Main Street, Sandwich). He will discuss his new book “Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out The Best In America”. This is a free event, no registration is required.
For further information or to reserve a signed copy of “Big Citizenship” if you cannot attend, contact Titcomb’s Bookshop at 508-888-2331. Titcomb’s Bookshop, located at 432 Route 6A in East Sandwich, is a family-owned independent bookstore selling new and used books since 1969. For more information, please refer to the bookshop website www.titcombsbookshop.com.
On Thursday, October 21 at 5 p.m. in Murdock Hall 218, MCLA is pleased to present a talk by Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year, and founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc.
Mr. Khazei is recognized globally as a leader in the areas of active citizenship and national service, and as social entrepreneur who has explored how to achieve social change by galvanizing popular movements and forging alliances among groups with shared interests. As co-founder of City Year, his efforts have provided opportunities for young people in cities across the United States, and in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the United Kingdom to serve their communities as mentors, tutors, and leaders young people. Through his work with Be the Change, Mr. Khazei organizes national coalitions to craft, and advocate for, innovative solutions to major national challenges.
Most recently, Mr. Khazei is the author of Big Citizenship, How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America. http://www.bigcitizenship.us
Location: Murdock 218 (wheelchair accessible)
Contact Information: Spencer Moser, 662-5251, spencer.moser@mcla.edu
Rethinking Citizenship
A discussion with Mark Gerzon and Alan Khazei
Join us for a special discussion as Mark Gerzon and Alan Khazei challenge us to better the country and world by becoming more active citizens.
Mark Gerzon, president of Mediators Foundation, has designed and led trend-setting global projects for the past quarter century. His writing has influenced corporate board room decisions and military strategy, as well as Democratic and Republican policymakers on Capitol Hill. He is known for his role as designer and facilitator of the U.S. House of Representatives Bipartisan Congressional Retreats, and internationally as a mediator and leadership consultant to the United Nations Development Program and to governments in Africa and Asia.
Alan Khazei is an award-winning social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life and work to strengthening American democracy through the engagement of citizens in service and public policy. He is the founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., which organizes national coalitions to craft, and advocate for, bold, post-partisan solutions to major national challenges. Prior to that he was co-founder and CEO of City Year, a youth service corps that currently serves in 20 American cities, and that helped inspire the creation of AmeriCorps.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Discussion and Signing
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Reception
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 900 | New York, NY 10115
(Enter at 61 Claremont Avenue to obtain a guest pass.)
| Public Transit Options Subway: 1 train to 116th Street and Broadway Bus: M4, M60, or M104 to 120th Street and Broadway; M4 to 120th Street and Riverside Drive |
 Space is limited. Please let us know if you will attend, and if you will have guests. |
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Profitability alone was never enough; any business beholden to the Service Profit chain learned long ago to balance people and profits. Today, leading companies focus the future on the next big hurdle - measuring and achieving the Triple Bottom Line of people, profits and a sustainable future for our planet.
Join us in Dallas, TX on November 1 - 3rd, 2010, for the 15th annual Best Practices Conference, as we celebrate the milestones of the People Report Consortium, and bring together the executive members of People Report and Black Box Intelligence. Count on being informed, inspired, and renewed as we tackle the triple challenges and opportunities of People, Profits, and the Planet.
Alan Khazei will be opening up the conference on November 3rd, at 8:30am.
Book Talk & Signing: "Big Citizenship" by Alan Khazei
Monday November 15th, 7:00pm Sandwich Town Hall Auditorium
Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year, will discuss his new book "Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America". In the book, Khazei relates the story of the realization of one man's vision: of how much greater America would be if people from all walks of life joined together in a shared act of national service.
This event is co-sponsored by the Sandwich Public Library
Nov 23 2010 7:00 pm
Khazei is the co-founder of City Year, an international non-profit organization through which young people mentor, tutor, and lead children. In his inspiring new book he outlines the ways and means of social entrepreneurship. Shore, too, has an ambitious vision for social change. Founder and director of Share Our Strength, in his third book he recounts the work of a group of scientists determined to develop a vaccine for malaria.
Location:
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
District of Columbia, 20008
JFK Library Big Citizenship Event moderated by David Gergen
Ask What You Can Do For Your Country
Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year in Boston, discusses his new book, Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out The Best In America, with David Gergen, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Alan Khazei will be available for interview in late August 2010. Contact us for more information.
Big Citizens are making change everywhere -- reforming education, fighting hunger, creating green solutions, strengthening their community. Tell us about about a Big Citizen who has created a new solution to an old problem.
