The $5.7 billion Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act active by President Obama this anniversary allocates $10 actor to Volunteers for Prosperity (VFP), an action accustomed by the U.S. Government to animate all-embracing autonomous account by awful accomplished Americans. Former Ambassador to the African Union, John Simon was an aboriginal adherent of the bill.
Boston, MA -- President Obama active into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act this week, at a celebration adulatory the law's sponsor. The $5.7 civic billion account bill supports the President's alarm for Americans to serve their country through volunteerism, both at home and abroad. It allocates $10 actor to Volunteers for Prosperity (VFP) for 2010 in adjustment to abutment 50% of the amount of sending accomplished American workers to accord their casework abroad--allowing Americans in greater numbers to participate in all-embracing volunteerism.
"Volunteers for Prosperity was the aftereffect of the President's acceptance that America's addition to the accord and abundance about the apple should not alone be abstinent in dollars and cents, but aswell in the alertness of American Citizens to accord their own time and activity to the all-around community," says Ambassador John Simon, who was an aboriginal adherent of VFP during his canicule at the White House. He is currently a visiting adolescent at the Center for Global Development.
Volunteers for Prosperity was the aftereffect of the President's acceptance that America's addition to the accord and abundance about the apple should not alone be abstinent in dollars and cents, but aswell in the alertness of American Citizens to accord their own time and activity to the all-around community Now that this abstraction has been anointed into law, it is bright it is a accepted one that is aggregate above the political spectrum in our country - one that both George W. Bush and Edward M. Kennedy can be appreciative to be associated with. And for me, it is a nice activity to apperceive I played a baby allotment in the development of such a accumulation program. Having catholic above the apple to some of its a lot of atrocious places, I can say there is annihilation like the absolute acknowledgment people-to-people access create It is an account to be associated with an alignment that has taken the advance in extensive out above the apple to advance the blazon of partnerships that are analytical to the peaceful development of this planet we share. "Now that this abstraction has been anointed into law, it is bright it is a accepted one that is aggregate above the political spectrum in our country - one that both George W. Bush and Edward M. Kennedy can be appreciative to be associated with. And for me, it is a nice activity to apperceive I played a baby allotment in the development of such a accumulation program."
Today, United Planet is admiring to advertise that Ambassador Simon will accompany his charge to all-embracing volunteerism and his development ability to the International Advisory Board of United Planet, the Boston-based non-profit alignment whose mission is to advance cross-cultural compassionate and abode aggregate all-around challenges through avant-garde initiatives worldwide, including all-embracing volunteerism programs.
Ambassador Simon shares United Planet's aesthetics of Relational Diplomacy--the abstraction that alone relationships are the architecture blocks of added all-around cooperation and alternate understanding. "Having catholic above the apple to some of its a lot of atrocious places, I can say there is annihilation like the absolute acknowledgment people-to-people access create," declared Simon. United Planet volunteers serve as amicableness ambassadors in over 50 countries worldwide.
"It is an account to be associated with an alignment that has taken the advance in extensive out above the apple to advance the blazon of partnerships that are analytical to the peaceful development of this planet we share."
Ambassador John Simon afresh served as the United States Ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to that appointment, he was the Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
Mr. Simon's plan at OPIC saw him arch efforts to advance clandestine investment in the developing world, abnormally the conception of new clandestine disinterestedness funds focused on amusing appulse investment in Africa. He ahead served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization and Development on the National Security Council (NSC) agents and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination. At the White House, Mr. Simon was amenable for several new development initiatives including the Millennium Challenge Account, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the President's Malaria Initiative. He aswell oversaw abatement efforts for all-embracing disasters, including the South Asia Earthquake of 2005.
