Ira Harkavy invites you to the COOL Conference at Penn!

Dear National Service-Learning Community:

Just wanted to send a brief reminder to register TODAY for the 20th Annual
COOL Idealist National Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia, March 12-14, 2004.  
Makings of an amazing conference are in the works.  Highlights include
expanded offerings for campus administrators, year of service programs and
their members, and on topics like fair trade and global equity, socially
responsible careers, international youth service and civil society
development, and voting.  As always, we will feature more than 150
workshops, spread over 5 blocks on Saturday and Sunday, and about a dozen
incredible Friday Forums.  Forum topics, in addition to those listed
above, will include hunger and homelessness, service and civics,
alternative spring breaks, environmental action, and learning lessons from
social movements.

Keynote speakers will include:

Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green Foundation, whose track record
includes founding and running Family Van, a community-based mobile health
unit that provides basic medical and outreach services to at-risk
residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods, serving as a White House
Fellow and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, and leading
Danya International, Inc., as the Director of Public Health Initiatives. 
(See http://www.echoinggreen.org/ for more info.)

Claudia Horwitz, Founder and director of stone circles, an organization
that helps individuals and organizations integrate faith, spiritual
practice, and reflection into their work for social change.  Claudia
brings more than 13 years with community-based initiatives, nonprofit
organizations, and youth leadership programs, including COOL and Empty the
Shelters in Philadelphia. She has recently published her first book, A
Stone's Throw: living the act of faith, (stone circles, 1999; Viking
Penguin, 2002) is a practical guide to individual and social
transformation through spirit and faith.  (See
http://www.stonecircles.org/ for more info.)

Visit our website (http://www.cool2serve.org) to:

-Sign up to do a workshop (or more) on our website
-Get lodging and other information
-Register (you can use the placeholder system even if you don't know names
yet)
-Learn more!

Thanks,
Ariane Hoy
(For questions, contact conference@cool2serve.org)

and 
Ira Harkavy, Director, Center for Community Partnerships at Penn
David Grossman, Director, Civic House at Penn
Hillary Aisenstein, Director, PHENND
and the whole Penn community!