Celebrating Two Years of Let’s Move! in Indian Country http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/08/celebrating-two-years-let-s-move-indian-country Posted by Jodi Gillette on May 08, 2013 at 11:45 AM EDT I recently had the honor of attending an event to mark the 2nd Anniversary of Let’s Move! in Indian Country at Chimney Rock National Monument in southwestern Colorado. I hiked and learned about [...]

At night, it flickered in the valley below camp: the green and orange spores of light that ignited just as the sun set into the canyon, like a coin into a slot machine. Tucson, Arizona. But after four weeks in the backcountry, it might as well have been Las Vegas. It seemed a place of [...]

SCC staff and crew leaders participated in a Let’s Move in Indian Country (LMIC) event held at Chimney Rock, CO yesterday.  Along with Southern Ute schoolchildren, SCC staff joined staff from the US Forest Service and US Department of Agriculture to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of LMIC.  There were some notable visitors that joined in [...]

SCC Sonoran Desert AmeriCorps Corpsmember Andrea Klaphake represented SCC at the White House Champions of Change event last week for the contributions that she, and other  AmeriCorps members deployed to New Jersey, made while assisting with Hurricane Sandy disaster relief.  Below are her reflections ‘Champions of Change’ It has to be all of us Southwest [...]

SCC will co-host the CCC Legacy Annual Gathering October 24-27, 2013 in Tucson, AZ.  The event this year will celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the CCC along with the 15th Anniversary of SCC. Additional information and registration information on the event is available at: http://www.ccclegacy.org/2013_CCC_Legacy_Gathering.php  

The note below comes from Koby Langley, Senior Advisor for Wounded Warrior, Veterans and Military Families Initiatives, Corporation for National and Community Service Dear Friends and Colleagues, It was a great moment for the national service community. In testimony yesterday before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Wendy Spencer, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service [...]

SCC AmeriCorps member Andrea Klaphake was recognized this week along with a few select other AmeriCorps members as a White House Champion of Change for her work with SCC on Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.  The White House honored people and organizations directly involved in response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy.   Andrea is currently in New [...]

The Southwest Conservation Corps received a grant from Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) as part of a $3 million Wells Fargo Environmental Solutions for Communities grant program across 64 community-based nonprofits nationwide to help support land and water conservation, energy efficiency, infrastructure, and educational outreach.   “We are excited to be a recipient of this [...]

I sit on a lichen dappled sandstone edge. My companions are healthy juniper trees and blossoming ephedra to my left and right. This edge of ancient rock stands proud and strong as a border to the vast space that lays to the south. The kind of vastness so wide and deep the silence is almost [...]