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Communications
Don Baer
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Leadership Summit
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December 13, 199 5
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MEMORANDUM TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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FROM:
Harris
SUBJECT:
George Romney's Proposal for
Leadership Summit for National Service and Community Volunteering
FOR NATIONAL
rJs E R VIC E.
Among other items for our forthcoming conference cal~ I want to discuss this proposal. As
many of you know, one of George Romney's last acts, a few days before his death, was to sign off
on an outline for a "Leadership ·Summit for National Service and Community Volunteering." Bob
Goodwin, president of the Points ofLight Foundation, and I agreed to work with George in planning
the large leadership convocation he had long championed, and to ask both the Corporation and the
Foundation to co-sponsor it.
I attach the short working paper George gave us, in the last of three discussions we had on
this idea. As Governor of Michigan, as the founder of the national Volunteer Centers organization,
and as founding board member ofboth the Commission on National and Community Service and the
Points ofLight Foundation, George Romney tirelessly advocated a national summit that would bring
together leaders from across our society to mount a fu.ll-scale mobilization to attack the underlying
causes of the disintegration of our communities and families.
In recent years George had come to see full-time National Service in AmeriCorps (or other
full-time service programs) and traditional part-time, unpaid volunteering as the twin engines that-working together - could realize the powerful potential of citizens' action to solve some of our most
pressing problems in education, public safety, health and the environment. He was intending to come
to Washington each week to meet with members of Congress to assure adequate funding and a
successful reauthorization for the programs of the Corporation and Foundation. But above all he saw
the proposed Summit for National Service and Community Volunteering as a way to lift sights
beyond the partisanship of 1996 to a new and more effective level of non-partisan citizens action in
1977 and beyond.
George proposed that the call to the 1997 Summit be issued in early ,i 996, by President and
Mrs. Clinton, by President and Mrs. Bush ( President Bush has just became the active honorary
chairman of the Points of Light Foundation, which he initiated), by President and Mrs. Carter, by
President and Mrs. Ford, and by President and Mrs. Reagan.
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Bob Goodwin and I think that the attached proposal by George Romney provides a good
starting frame in which to begin planning. We propose that several members of the Board of the
Corporation and of the Foundation be designat~ to serve on the initial planning committee. Both
of us hope that Mitt Romney, a new member of the Foundation's board, will be one of the key
planners. of this idea which he heard so much about from his father. Sargent Sluiver and John
Gardner were also involved early in George's formulation of this proposal, and would be excellent
members of a planning committee. You will have other good participants to suggest, from the civic,
religious, business, volunteer and government sectors.
We count on the two chairs of our boards to participate, and we will enlist interested staff
support in the planning process.
Ifboth boards agree, we would like the first planning session-- at least by teleconference- .
to take place sometime this month. At an early stage we should seek the concurrence ofPresident
Clinton and President Bush, and then of the other proposed conveners, and of the initial advisory
group or other structure for sponsorship by the appropriate national civic leaders.
As you might expect, it's been proposed that Colin Powell be asked to play a leading part,
perhaps as Chairman of the Summit.
Please think about how this proposal fits our goals and strategy, and how to take the next
steps.
Attachment
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ORGANIZATION:
It will take the time until January 1997 to organize a successful summit
conference of this magnitude, The nrst step should be to secure the
President's approval of its purpose and organization. The second
step should be selection of the individual or individuals to secure
commitments from the former Presidents and their wives. The third
should be the selection of an inclusive and nonpartisan advisory
committee. The fourth to plan the summit. The fifth to identify the
attendees. The sixth to make it a success.
ITS SUCCESS:
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The success of the summit will depend on the willingness of the
national leaders to follow-up by persuading their state and local
leaders to strengthen national service and community volunteering in
their states and local communities. This will require effective state
and national service commis~ions and community volunteering
structures. The state commissions and community volunteering
structures should launch campaigns to strengthen citizens' national
servic.§., volunteer activities focused on curbing and reversing problems
tn education, public safety, health, and the environment. Duplication
of programs and projects should be minimized and collaboration of
programs and projects increased.
The national summit in 1997 should be followed up with evaluation
summits either annually or bi-annually.
George Romney
July 21, 1995
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