Principal of Public Purpose Strategies. City Year Co-Founder. Champion of national service, social entrepreneurship and changemakers. Opinions are my own.
Boston, MA
Joined August 2011
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Michael Brown retweeted
Today the @SenateDems & @SenateGOP confirmed Michael Smith as CEO of @AmeriCorps. Thank you @POTUS for nominating the right leader at the right time. There’s so much to do. Let’s go @MikeSmith_44 #Stand4Service #AmeriCorpsWorks
Michael Brown retweeted
Michelle Wu has become the first woman of color, and the first Asian-American, to be elected mayor of Boston. Congratulations! nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/el…
Congrats @PFADemocracy, led by @diaviv, on launching today as the national nerve center driving attention, energy, and resources to efforts strengthening democracy in America. This work is critical for our country's future. Learn more: pfad.us/
Powerful @NYTimes editorial calls for @nationalservice as a new social norm: “a year in which barriers of race, class and income were breached…could help restore a measure of the community, commitment and hope that America cries out for.” nytimes.com/2021/05/01/opini… #AmeriCorpsWorks
It is critical that communities hit the hardest by COVID-19 are at the center of the policymaking process. The next cohort of @TheNext100 Policy Entrepreneurs will do just that, and #nationalservice can be part of the solution. Learn more and apply: thenext100.org/join-next100
Michael Brown retweeted
Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example.
Michael Brown retweeted
The $1 billion for @AmeriCorps in #AmericanRescuePlan is historic but the real story will be told by the lives saved and improved: Americans vaccinated, students back on track, families out of hunger, children reaching their potential; stronger communities & a more united nation.
📢#Breaking: @POTUS signs $1⃣.9⃣T #AmericanRescuePlan into law, including $1⃣B expanding #nationalservice to continue addressing the devastating consequences of #COVID19.
#RT to spread the word & learn more ➡️bit.ly/ARPNationalServiceNew…
#AmeriCorpsWorks #WeAreAmeriCorps
The @WashingtonPost nails it: In the Shadow of its Exceptionalism, America Fails to Invest in the Basics: “America can put a rover on Mars, but it can’t keep the lights on and water running in the city that birthed the modern space program.” tinyurl.com/3w7m24z9
Michael Brown retweeted
Proud to join @ChrisCoons, a tireless champion of national service, on @Morning_Joe this AM to talk about #AmericanRescuePlan investment in @AmeriCorps. New $1B will help to mobilize a national tutoring & mentoring effort to address students’ academic & socioemotional needs.
Michael Brown retweeted
As a former social studies teacher, especially pleased to join 5 other former Secretaries of @USEDgov - @ArneDuncan, @MargaretEdu, @RodPaige, @LamarAlexander, & Richard Riley - in calling for a nat’l commitment to invest in Civics & History Ed @EADRoadmap wsj.com/articles/america-nee…
Michael Brown retweeted
"We can't afford a lost generation of students," -@JohnBKing on his call for a national service plan to help kids
@MSNBC
Since we know that N95 masks are a remarkable deterrent to the virus, it seems that one big missing national strategy is for the federal government to use the War Production Act to massively increase production and send them free to every American. cnn.com/2021/01/22/health/fa…
It's a new day in America!
A new day for racial and social justice, for inclusion and for democracy! images.app.goo.gl/u18iRSyStA…
"If we are brave enough to be it!" A powerful poem....a remarkable poet...to usher in a new day in America! Thank you @theAmandaGorman! abcnews.go.com/US/video/poet…
Michael Brown retweeted
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.
An extraordinary American patriot.
"I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. #CNNSOTU cnn.it/2LwnheX
This is the most unAmerican moment of our lifetime. Everyone -- especially our nation's leaders -- must condemn this attack on our democracy. There must be a reckoning for those who fueled this shameful, dangerous and unacceptable attack on the US Capitol.
