United We Serve

The President and First Lady launched United We Serve in partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service as a nationwide initiative to create a sustained, collaborative, and focused effort to meet community needs and make service a way of life for all Americans.

Confident that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when given the proper tools, President Obama asked us to come together to help lay a new foundation for growth. United We Serve aims to both expand the impact of existing organizations by engaging new volunteers in their work and encourage volunteers to develop their own do-ityourself projects with friends, family, and neighbors.

Since the launch of United We Serve, Americans from all walks of life have responded enthusiastically to the President’s call to service. They have replenished food banks, prevented summer reading loss, provided health services, supported our veterans and military families, restored parks and public lands, and given back in countless other ways.

United We Serve has already succeeded this summer in bolstering civic engagement nationwide, bettering our communities in priority issue areas, and developing creative partnerships.