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		<title>We Want YOU to Join the Movement!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the 60-day National Service Express Tour has come to a close, we hope that you&#8217;ll choose to listen to (by clicking on) our good ol&#8217; Uncle Sam&#8230; ServeNext.org<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=260&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Across the Finish Line&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, In 60 days, you joined over 500 individuals at 35 meetings in 28 states.  After 30,000 combined miles, we&#8217;re finally back and sleeping in our own beds!  What an unbelievable journey with twists, turns, stories, and faces that we&#8217;ll not soon &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/across-the-finish-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=258&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q: Where Are Matt and Sean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 21:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A: In Atlanta, at Be The Change&#8217;s Change Agent Academy and the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.   Since we last posted, we&#8217;ve been on a 16 hour bus ride from Miami to Columbia, had three awesome meetings &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/q-where-are-matt-and-sean/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=256&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 01:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seaedw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt and I are in Columbia, SC, officially on the home stretch of the trip. Last night we met with supporters in Miami at Miami-Dade College. Below is a long awaited picture of Matt and I: Miami was especially exciting because &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/miami-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=253&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth, Education &amp; National Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       Politico writer Ben Alder has two recent articles touching on National Service in relation to the presidential campaigns.  The first, McCain is slow to gain young voters, is in regards to the youth vote, and how Clinton, McCain and Obama campaigned about &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/youth-education-national-service/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=250&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Service Helped Inspire Creation of FedEx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the National Service Express nearing its end (27 stops/cities down&#8230;3 to go), it&#8217;s really incredible to think about all of the conversations that Sean and Matt have had as they traverse America. And in those conversations, it is even &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/service-helped-inspire-creation-of-fedex/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=249&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Knows How to Do It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently got word of exciting news coming out of Minnesota from the Minnesota Conservation Corps. It sounds almost definite that the state will eliminate the tax on the Segal Education Award given to AmeriCorps members after serving their term &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/minnesota-knows-how-to-do-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=244&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ServeNOLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 03:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seaedw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt and I served in the Upper 9th Ward today (we were &#8220;floating&#8221; drywall, hence the picture), followed by our ServeNext New Orleans meeting at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center.  At this point, we&#8217;re exhausted.  I&#8217;ll leave you with a &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/servenola/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=243&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change/Wire highlights Peace Corps, Teach for America&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 22:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbdubayou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be The Change, Inc.&#8217;s (BTC) Change/Wire blog highlighted a couple National Service-related items today: Ouch: Over at Foreign Policy magazine, a retired Peace Corps volunteer / official smacks the Peace Corps aroound a bit. Pretty intense criticism &#8211; some valid, some harsh. &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/changewire-highlights-peace-corps-teach-for-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=242&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Leg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relevant back stories: Crazy Train, &#8220;What&#8217;s your name, sweetie?&#8221;, The Wrath of Bonnie.  After we pulled back on the freeway, the bus was running about 45 minutes behind, which posed a slight problem for Matt and I as we had &#8230; <a href="http://servenextbustour.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/the-final-leg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=servenextbustour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2890593&amp;post=241&amp;subd=servenextbustour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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