Usher’s New Look is collaborating with a diverse set of organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals to increase messages and actions Powered By Service. You can join this group to support the Powered By Service initiative in the following ways:

• Start a signature Powered By Service campaign to incite action around the issue you support,
• Endow a Powered By Service mini grant fund to support youth projects addressing a specific issue or using a specific strategy that interests your organization
• Co-sponsor events and activities Powered By Service
• Use the Powered By Service message to describe your service and/or philanthropic work
• Support young people implementing local projects Powered By Service
• Develop special events and opportunities to promote Powered By Service

Learn and Serve America is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency created to connect Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to give back to their communities and their nation. Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects. Visit http://www.learnandserve.gov for more information.

The United Nations Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. www.UNFoundation.org The UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Since its inception, Nothing But Nets has engaged hundreds of thousands of people, raised nearly $30 million, and worked with the United Nations to distribute over 2.5 million bed nets across Africa. Visit www.NothingButNets.net to send a net and save a life.

EarthEcho International is a nonprofit 501c3 organization founded in 2000 by siblings Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau in honor of their father Philippe Cousteau Sr., famous son of the legendary explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau. EarthEcho International's mission is to foster extraordinary leaders to take action to restore and protect our Oceans. For more information visit, http://www.earthecho.org.

City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. As tutors, mentors and role models, these young leaders make a difference in the lives of children and transform schools and neighborhoods across the United States and in South Africa. City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps. Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year has established programs in Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Columbia, SC; Columbus; Detroit; Little Rock, Los Angeles; Louisiana: Baton Rouge; Louisiana: New Orleans; Miami; New Hampshire; New York; Philadelphia; Rhode Island; San Antonio; San José/Silicon Valley; Seattle/King County; South Africa; and Washington, DC. City Year’s National Leadership Sponsors are ARAMARK, Bank of America, Cisco Foundation, Comcast, CSX, Pepperidge Farm, Pepsi, The Timberland Company and T-Mobile. For more information, visit www.cityyear.org.

HandsOn Network equips, mobilizes and inspires people to take action that changes the world. Our Network, now the largest in the nation, is leading people from impulse to action, turning their ideas for change into real projects like building wheel chair ramps, watershed protection projects and tutoring programs – action that addresses critical issues facing our communities, our nation and our world. The Network includes over 250 affiliates—that serve in all 50 states and in nine countries. In 2007 alone, these HandsOn Action Centers helped to deliver more than 33 million hours of volunteer service valued at 1.2 billion. For more information visit www.handsonenetwork.org.

Public Allies is changing the face and practice of leadership to meet the demands of new times. Public Allies operates nationally and in 20 communities across America through a 10-month leadership development program, an Alumni network, and The Leadership Practice consulting group. Public Allies’ mission is to advance new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits and civic participation. For more information visit www.publicallies.org.

Communities In Schools, Inc. was founded in 1977. The organization has grown to a national network with programs in 28 states, and reaches over two million young people with the CIS Five Basics. CIS of Washington State was founded in 1991. CISWA now has 12 affiliate programs and serves over 6,400 students in 89 schools. For more information, visit www.ciswa.org.

ServiceNation is a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate service as a core ideal and problem-solving strategy in American society. Reaching an estimated 100 million citizens through its 200-plus member groups, ServiceNation played a leading role in the drafting and April 2009 enactment of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which authorizes the greatest expansion of national service in America since FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps. For more information visit www.servicenation.org.