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| Dear Friend of Service,
Today the White House celebrated President George H. W. Bush’s leadership of service and presented the 5,000th daily Point of Light award, underscoring the history of strong bipartisan support for service. Today’s award went to Floyd Hammer and Kathy Hamilton, a retired couple and farm owners from Union, Iowa, whose nonprofit organization delivers free meals to children suffering from hunger in more than 15 countries, including the United States. President Obama also announced the creation of a new interagency National Service Task Force, co-chaired by Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz and Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Wendy Spencer, and released a Presidential Memo instructing agencies across the federal government to develop strategies that will leverage national service to meet critical challenges facing the country in a cost-effective way, as well as to create new talent pipelines. This milestone represents an exciting and important step forward on the path to expanding national service opportunities for the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting for a chance to put their energy and idealism to work for the common good. Please help us thank President Obama by tweeting a message to him (@BarackObama) using the hashtag #ServiceWorks. Yours in Service,
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