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MLK Day of Service Virtual Town Hall

By Nell Edgington

On this Martin Luther King day, January 18th, Points of Light Institute and HandsOn Network will engage the nation in a MLK Day Virtual Town Hall—an online, interactive dialogue about community service.

Through this virtual town hall, you can tune in to conversations across seven cities, highlighting over 70,000 community organizations at the forefront of interaction, civic engagement and community service.

If you want to see the virtual town hall meeting, come back here on Monday, January 18th. The schedule for the simulcast is as follows:

Monday January 18 Simulcast Schedule

  • 8:00 AM EST – 8:30 AM EST Atlanta – Opening at the hub (HON office)
  • 8:30 AM EST – 9:30 AM EST Atlanta – Hands On Atlanta Annual King Summit Freedom Rally at Morehouse School of Medicine Auditorium with Congressman John Lewis
  • 9:30 AM EST – 10:00 AM EST Back to the hub (HON office), pre-taped messages (i.e., Philadelphia)
  • 10:00 AM EST – 11:00 AM EST Washington, D.C. – Greater DC Cares service project at Powell Elementary Schools with Council member Muriel Bowser
  • 11:00 AM EST – 12:00 PM EST New York City – Youth HandsOn service project at James Weldon Johnson School
  • 12:00 PM EST – 1:00 PM EST Sacramento – Hands On Sacramento service project at Quinn Cottages with Mayor Kevin Johnson
  • 1:00 PM EST – 2:00 PM EST Phoenix – HandsOn Greater Phoenix service project with Mayor Phil Gordon
  • 2:00 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST Chicago – Cities of Service announcement with Mayor Michael Bloomberg
  • 3:00 PM EST – 4:00 PM EST St. Louis – United Way of Greater St. Louis service project and dialogue
  • 4:00 PM EST – 4:30 PM EST Atlanta – Closing at the hub (HON office)

I hope to see you back here on Monday!


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