America Serves, the College Edition, is a step-by-step guide to putting on an educational fundraiser for the nonprofit organization of your choice. Do something for a cause you believe in by generating resources and creating new supporters for their mission! The America Serves College Edition guides you through the process with weekly action plans, meeting agendas, ideas for funding and publicity, and templates for invitations, group materials, thank you's, tax ID letters, etc. that have been used successfully to raise money for causes including the Central Asia Institute (Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea), United Movement to End Child Soldiering, Orphans of Rwanda (now Generation Rwanda), Polaris Project, and CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict). The high school edition of the America Serves Journal was honored in 2008 by the US Department of Education as a guide to service learning.
About the Author: Linda Falcão is a wife, mother, civil rights attorney, and educator interested in supporting efforts to make the world a better place, and is thrilled to offer the America Serves series as a way to do that. In the immortal words of Jimi Hendrix, "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
