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With Needs Assessment of 100 Food Programs, Volunteers will be Directed Based on Skill Set to fill Specific Needs at Food Programs.

Mayor Announces New Job Training Program for Veterans and Launches the Second Phase of the Supporting our Troops Care Package Drive.

Program will Mobilize Hundreds of Volunteers as a Component of City's Influenza Prevention Strategy.

After Only Two Years, Million Trees NYC is 25% Complete...

Mayor Bloomberg and former Vice President and founder of the Alliance for Climate Protection Al Gore today launched an NYC Service initiative, "NYC Cool Roofs," to mobilize volunteers to coat the rooftops of participating buildings with reflective, white coating to reduce cooling costs, energy usage and greenhouse emissions. The Mayor and former Vice President helped NYC Service volunteers coat the rooftop of the Long Island City YMCA in Queens.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today joined Department of Youth and Community Development Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav, Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford, New York City Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea and New York Cares Executive Director Gary Bagley to work with volunteers participating in an NYC Service volunteer program called the “Summer of Service.”

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford today announced that NYC Service participants trained nearly 500 New Yorkers in life-saving CPR this weekend as a part of the City's recognition of the federal designation of September 11th as a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today was joined by Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service Nicola Goren to launch the first-ever NYC Civic Corps and swear in its inaugural class of 193 AmeriCorps VISTA members.

I watched New York City Government once again use technology to fundamentally change the way real folks can help each other with city government acting as the central meeting point. The solution is a centerpiece to Mike Bloomberg’s whole Government 2.0 initiative, NYC Service.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today named Diahann Billings-Burford as the nation’s first-ever municipal Chief Service Officer and charged her with leading NYC Service—the City’s initiative to promote a new era of service and volunteerism in New York City.