ABOUT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE
& THE FRANKLIN PROJECT
At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2012, General Stanley McChrystal received an overwhelming
response to his call for large-scale civilian national service to engage more Americans in serving
community and country. The Aspen Institute established the Franklin Project in response to this
call to action, to marshal the best case for a voluntary civilian counterpart to military service in the
United States.
The Franklin Project’s vision is to establish a year of full-time national service as a common
expectation and opportunity for all young Americans ages 18 to 28. Our goal is to create one
million annual opportunities for civilian national service, on par with the number of Americans
serving on active duty in our Armed Forces. We seek to dramatically expand opportunities for young
Americans to contribute their strengths, knowledge, and entrepreneurial energy to solving our
nation’s most pressing challenges, in areas such as education, health, food security, environmental
conservation, veterans’ reintegration, and economic opportunity.
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The Franklin Project seeks to unite leading Americans from all sectors alongside citizens at the
grassroots in calling for and building this new vision of civilian national service. We propose to
fuel the citizen service movement in America by making the case for a year of national service to
become a new civic rite of passage that will bind members of generations to each other and to our
nation, while enlisting them to work together to address great national challenges.
We are focusing on developing a 21st century architecture for national service that builds off of
and strengthens the existing system while promoting new policy ideas to advance the national
service movement. Our work has encompassed a series of gatherings of critical stakeholders and
the publication of seminal papers at The Aspen Institute; briefings for the White House, Congress
and governmental leaders; the development of the Franklin Project Plan of Action; and an actioninspiring Summit leading into the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2013, followed by a public campaign
to be launched in the fall of 2013.
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America needs universal national service. America’s young adults can help solve our country’s most
pressing challenges and, in the process, become connected to one another and to the nation. As the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are drawn down, and as our country faces new challenges and divisions
within and outside our own borders, we must rebuild a sense of common purpose through national
service to meet the unique needs and opportunities of the 21st century.
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big, and our challenges too expansive, for small ideas. Now, let’s get to work.
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National service has the power to transform individuals and communities, to create bridges and
strengthen ties, and to bind generations to one another and to their country. Whether military or civilian,
service establishes an ethic of togetherness that endures long after a tour of duty or a term as a corps
member. The Franklin Project is solution-oriented and pragmatic in its policy agenda and structure, but
its vision is one of enduring cultural change – reaching deeply into how Americans can work together,
regardless of differences, and unite in pursuit of the common good.
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Franklin Project’s vision demands the caliber of leadership, experience, and commitment to action that
you all demonstrate. We have designed this as a working summit with several breakout sessions and
ample opportunities for everyone to participate so that it can lead to action and commitments. To engage
our entire nation and embed the concept of a civic rite of passage in our national identity for generations
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Since October 2012, the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute has convened top leaders from the
military, government, non-profit, business, labor, philanthropic, education, faith-based, media, and
technology sectors to create a revolutionary plan: one that will enable full-time national service to
become a common expectation and opportunity for all young people in our nation. We have learned from
these top leaders, listened to the views of the American people on national service through a nationally
representative survey, commissioned research on the economic case for national service, analyzed the
evidence for how national service is meeting national challenges, and assembled a Leadership Council
of outstanding Americans from across sectors, administrations and political parties.
We have developed a Plan of Action for a 21st Century National Service System that will offer at least one
million full-time civilian national service opportunities for young adults ages 18-28 every year, on par
with the more than one million Americans who serve on active duty in our Armed Forces. Our Leadership
Council has endorsed this plan, and we hope that each of you will be inspired to sign on as well.
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DOERR-HOSIER CENTER, ASPEN MEADOWS CAMPUS, ASPEN, COLORADO
3:00-6:00PM EARLY REGISTRATION
BARKSDALE LOBBY
6:00-9:00PM DINNER PROGRAM
MCNULTY ROOM
SETTING THE STAGE: AMERICA NEEDS UNIVERSAL NATIONAL SERVICE
INTRODUCTION RENÉ SPELLMAN Vice President, MWW Group; Millennial Working
Group, The Franklin Project
WELCOME WALTER ISAACSON President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
PRESIDENTIAL VIDEO ADDRESSES
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 42 nd President of the United States
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 43 rd President of the United States
TESTIMONIALS OF MILITARY & CIVILIAN SERVICE
JAKE WOOD Team Rubicon
SIDRA BONNER Community Health Corps
EVELYNE SANTIAGO City Year
RANDY NELSON The Mission Continues
SHAKIM JOHNSON Green City Force
A NEW AMERICAN RITE OF PASSAGE
GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security
Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership
Council Chair
DAVID GERGEN CNN Senior Political Analyst; Director, Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Public Leadership; Former Senior Advisor to four U.S. Presidents
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: REALIZING 21ST CENTURY NATIONAL SERVICE
CLOSING REMARKS
SENATOR HARRIS WOFFORD Former U.S. Senator; Franklin Project Senior Advisor
T U E S D A Y , J U N E 25
8:00-8:45AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
BARKSDALE LOBBY
9:00-10:30AM OPENING PLENARY SESSION
MCNULTY ROOM
WELCOME
EMCEE ROB GORDON Chief Strategy Officer, APX Labs; Former Deputy
Undersecretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
WALTER ISAACSON President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
SERVICE AND THE NEXT GREATEST GENERATION
REMARKS CHELSEA CLINTON Board Member, Clinton Foundation
A DEFINING AMERICAN IDEA
MEL MARTINEZ Chairman, Southeast and Latin America and Vice Chair, JPMorgan
Chase; Former US Senator and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
WENDY SPENCER CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
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THE FRANKLIN PROJECT PLAN OF ACTION
INTRODUCTION & REMARKS MARIA SHRIVER Journalist, Author & Former First Lady
of California
JOHN BRIDGELAND CEO, Civic Enterprises; Former Director, White House Domestic
Policy Council; Franklin Project Co-Chair
ALAN KHAZEI Co-Founder, City Year; Founder, Be the Change; Franklin Project Co-Chair
10:30-11:00AM COFFEE & CONVERSATION BREAK
BARKSDALE LOBBY
11:00AM-12:15PM MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS – POLICY AGENDA
BREAKOUT ROOMS AS NOTED
The goals of the morning breakout sessions are to clarify the content and impact
of the policy ideas and to discuss strategies for implementation and long-term
success. Each breakout will be co-facilitated by members of the Franklin Project
Policy Council and other leaders who have helped to shape the policy ideas.
NATIONAL SERVICE CERTIFICATION
KAUFMAN ROOM
SHIRLEY SAGAWA Senior Policy Advisor, America Forward; Senior Fellow, Center for
American Progress
MARTIN RODGERS Partner, Accenture
JOHN KELLY Senior Advisor to the CEO and Director of Partnerships & Engagement,
Corporation for National and Community Service
AGENCY & PROFESSIONAL CORPS
CATTO BOARD ROOM
ASIM MISHRA Chief of Staff, Corporation for National and Community Service
ELISA VILLANUEVA BEARD Co-Chief Executive Officer, Teach for America
CIVILIAN SERVICE BY AND FOR VETERANS: THE GI BILL
MCNULTY ROOM
SPENCER KYMPTON President, The Mission Continues
KEN HARBAUGH ServiceNation
JESSICA GROSS CRAWFORD Government Affairs Director, America Forward/New Profit
FORGING NEW PATHWAYS TO SERVICE
BERNHARD ROOM
JAMIEL ALEXANDER President, YouthBuild National Alumni Council
ABBY FALIK Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year
STEVE PATRICK Executive Director, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions
FULFILLING THE VISION OF THE SERVE AMERICA ACT
HINES SEMINAR ROOM
ANNMAURA CONNOLLY President, Voices for National Service;
Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Vice President, City Year
BENJAMIN JEALOUS President and CEO, NAACP
ZACH MAURIN Managing Director, ServiceNation; Millennial Working Group,
Franklin Project
MOBILIZING AMERICA AROUND NATIONAL SERVICE
BASS TERRACE
FAGAN HARRIS Director, Aspen Institute Impact Careers Initiative; Millennial
Working Group, Franklin Project
SAM AYRES McChrystal Group; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project
ERICA WILLIAMS Founder & CEO, EWS Strategies; World Economic Forum Young
Global Shaper; Millennial Working Group, Franklin Project
THE NARRATIVE FOR A NEW CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE RESNICK GALLERY
MATTHEW DOWD News Correspondent and Analyst, ABC News; Former Presidential
Strategist
MICHAEL GERSON Columnist, The Washington Post ; Former Assistant to
the President for Policy and Strategic Planning
WES MOORE U.S. Army Captain (Ret.); Author, The Other Wes Moore ;
Host of Beyond Belief , Oprah Winfrey Network
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12:30-2:30PM LUNCH PLENARY SESSION
BARKSDALE LOBBY AND MCNULTY ROOM
REPORTS FROM MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A representative from each of the morning breakout groups will briefly report on
the top implementation strategies discussed.
SERVICE AS A NATIONAL PRIORITY
LAYSHA WARD President, Target Community Relations; Board Chair, Corporation
for National & Community Service
PANEL DISCUSSION: NEXT GENERATION OF SERVICE
This session will focus on the innovative ways in which national service is
addressing our nation’s greatest challenges. Panelists will discuss how service is
working in practice, and how its impact can be taken to scale in the 21 st century.
MODERATOR ARIANNA HUFFINGTON President, Chair and Editor-In-Chief,
The Huffington Post
Veterans Reintegration and Civilian & Military Service
MICHÈLE FLOURNOY Founder & Co-Chair, Center for a New American Security;
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Education & The Dropout Crisis
WENDY KOPP Founder & Chair, Teach for America; CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All
Environmental Conservation
DIRK KEMPTHORNE Former Governor of Idaho, U.S. Senator & U.S. Secretary of
the Interior
Poverty & Economic Opportunity
GEORGE KHALDUN Chief Administrative Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone
Hunger & Food Security
STEPHANIE SIMMONS Service Member, FoodCorps
International Service
BARBARA BUSH CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps
REMARKS
BRUCE REED Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President
MICHAEL GERSON Columnist, The Washington Post ; Former Assistant to
the President for Policy and Strategic Planning
2:45-4:00PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS – OUR NEXT STEPS
BREAKOUT ROOMS AS NOTED
The goal of the afternoon breakout sessions is to discuss how key sectors can take
concrete action to fulfill the vision of the Franklin Project and Plan of Action. Each
breakout will be co-facilitated by sector leaders who will guide the conversation toward
next steps.
HIGHER EDUCATION
HINES SEMINAR ROOM
SCOTT S. COWEN President, Tulane University; Former Member, White House
Council for Community Solutions
MARK GEARAN President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges; Former Director, Peace
Corps; Former White House Director of Communications & Strategic Planning
MEDIA AND OPINION LEADERS
RESNICK GALLERY
DON BAER Worldwide Chair and CEO, Burson-Marsteller
PAULA KERGER President and CEO, PBS
RICHARD STENGEL Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
PHILANTHROPY AND CORPORATE SECTOR
KAUFMAN ROOM
STEPHEN HEINTZ President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
KATHY PAYNE Senior Director of Education Leadership, State Farm Insurance Companies
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25
FAITH-BASED & NONPROFIT SECTOR
BASS TERRACE
JOHN DIIULIO Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania;
Former Director, White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
JOSHUA DUBOIS Former Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships
REV. LUIS CORTES President and CEO, Esperanza
NONPROFIT SECTOR
MCNULTY ROOM
MICHAEL BROWN Co-Founder and CEO, City Year
CHERYL L. DORSEY President, Echoing Green
MILITARY AND VETERANS
BERNHARD ROOM
GENERAL JACK GARDNER U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Retired);
Former Deputy Commander, European Command
DR. VIVIAN GREENTREE Director of Research and Policy, Blue Star Families
PATTY SHINSEKI Board of Advisors, White House Joining Forces Initiative;
Board of Directors, Military Child Education Coalition
GOVERNMENT
CATTO BOARD ROOM
JONATHAN GREENBLATT Director, White House Office of Social Innovation and
Civic Participation
CARRIE HESSLER-RADELET Deputy Director, Peace Corps
MAYOR ANGEL TAVERAS Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
4:00-4:30PM COFFEE & CONVERSATION BREAK
BARKSDALE LOBBY
4:30-5:30PM CALL TO ACTION & COMMITMENTS
MCNULTY ROOM
ACTION INTRODUCTIONS & DECLARATION OF SERVICE
KERRY SULLIVAN President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation
AARON MARQUEZ U.S. Army Reserve; AmeriCorps Alumnus; Co-Founder, ServeNext
CALL TO ACTION
ELLIOT GERSON Vice President of Policy & Public Programs, The Aspen Institute
GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security
Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership
Council Chair
COMMITMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS
CLOSING REMARKS
5:30-6:30PM WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
BASS TERRACE AND BARKSDALE LOBBY
6:30-7:30PM NATIONAL SERVICE: A CIVIC RITE OF PASSAGE
GREENWALD PAVILION
Public Session in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
ELLIOT GERSON Vice President of Policy & Public Programs, The Aspen Institute
GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL Former Commander, International Security
Assistance Force & U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Franklin Project Leadership
Council Chair
PANEL DISCUSSION
MODER ATOR EJ DIONNE, JR. Columnist, The Washington Post ; Senior Fellow in
Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
BARBARA BUSH CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps
MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU Mayor of New Orleans and Former Lieutenant Governor
of Louisiana
WES MOORE U.S. Army Captain (Ret.); Author, The Other Wes Moore ;
Host of Beyond Belief , Oprah Winfrey Network
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Congratulations to the
Aspen Institute:
National Service is closer to
becoming part of America’s
national culture!
Laura & Gary Lauder
Jonathan and Jeannie
Lavine congratulate the
Aspen Institute Franklin
Project for its visionary
and bold plan for universal
voluntary national service
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
General Stanley McChrystal
Madeleine Albright
Don Baer
Melody Barnes
Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger
John Bridgeland
Tom Brokaw
Michael Brown
Anna Burger
Barbara Bush
Jean Case
Raymond G. Chambers
AnnMaura Connolly
Scott S. Cowen
Maureen Curley
Richard Danzig
John J. DiIulio, Jr.
Bill Drayton
Joshua DuBois
General Ann Dunwoody
Michèle Flournoy
General Jack Gardner
Robert Gates
Mark Gearan
David Gergen
Elliot Gerson
Michael Gerson
Dan Glickman
Rob Gordon
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Leadership Council Chair, The Franklin Project; U.S. Army General (Retired);
Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force & U.S. Forces
Afghanistan
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State &
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Worldwide Chair and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Former White House Director of
Strategic Planning and Communications
Chair, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Opportunity Youth Incentive
Fund; Vice Provost for Global Student Leadership Initiatives, New York
University; and former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former National Security Advisor
Co-Chair, The Franklin Project; CEO, Civic Enterprises; Former Director, White
House Domestic Policy Council
Former Anchor & Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News
Co-Founder and CEO, City Year
Former Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU; Former Chair, Change to Win
Co-Founder and CEO, Global Health Corps
CEO, The Case Foundation; Former Chair, President’s Council on Service and
Civic Participation
UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing of the Health Related
Millennium Development Goals & for Malaria; Co-Founder, America’s Promise
Alliance; Chair, MCJ Amelior Foundation
President, Voices for National Service; Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Vice
President, City Year
President, Tulane University; Former Member, White House Council for
Community Solutions
President, Campus Compact
Chairman, Center for a New American Security; Former Secretary of the Navy
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Former Director, White
House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
CEO and Founder, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public; Former Assistant
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Former Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships
U.S. Army General (Retired); Former Commanding General,
U.S. Army Material Command
Founder & Co-Chair, Center for a New American Security; Former
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Retired); Former Deputy Commander,
European Command
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Former Director of Central Intelligence;
Former President, Texas A&M University
President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges; Former Director, Peace Corps;
Former White House Director of Communications & Strategic Planning
CNN Senior Political Analyst; Director, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public
Leadership; Former Senior Advisor to four U.S. Presidents
Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, The Aspen Institute;
American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust
Columnist, The Washington Post; Former Assistant to the President for Policy
and Strategic Planning
Vice President & Executive Director of Congressional Programs, The Aspen
Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture; & Former Member of Congress (Kansas)
Chief Strategy Officer, APX Labs; U.S. Army (Ret); Former Deputy
Undersecretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
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LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Eric Greitens
Stephen Hadley
Andrew Hauptman
Mellody Hobson
Arianna Huffington
Jon Huntsman
Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Jealous
General Jim Jones
Dirk Kempthorne
Alan Khazei
Wendy Kopp
Laura Lauder
Mel Martinez
Zach Maurin
Wes Moore
Eduardo Padrón
Robert Putnam
W. Taylor Reveley III
Condoleezza Rice
Norman B. Rice
Shirley Sagawa
Donna Shalala
Patty Shinseki
Bill Shore
Timothy Shriver
Richard Stengel
Patty Stonesifer
Kerry Sullivan
Laurie Tisch
Laysha Ward
Harris Wofford
CEO & Founder, The Mission Continues; United States Navy SEAL (Retired)
Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace;
Former National Security Advisor; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Global Strategic Affairs
Chairman, Andell, Inc.; Owner and Chairman, Chicago Fire Soccer Club; &
Trustee, City Year
President, Ariel Investments; Chairman of the Board, DreamWorks
Animation, SKG
President, Chair and Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post
Former Governor of Utah; Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore & China
President & CEO, The Aspen Institute
President & CEO, NAACP; Former Executive Director, National Newspaper
Publishers Association; Former Director, U.S. Human Rights Program at
Amnesty International
Former National Security Advisor; U.S. Marine Corps General (Retired);
Former Commander, U.S. European Command &
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Former Governor of Idaho, U.S. Senator & U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Co-Chair, The Franklin Project; CEO, The Action Tank; Co-Founder, City Year;
Founder, Be the Change
Founder & Chair, Teach For America; CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All
Chair, Aspen Institute Service Circle; Venture Philanthropist, Lauder Family
Foundation; Co-Principal, Lauder Partners LLC, Venture Capital
Chairman, Southeast and Latin America and Vice Chair, JPMorgan Chase;
Former US Senator and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Managing Director, ServiceNation; Co-Founder, ServeNext
U.S. Army Captain (Ret.); Author, The Other Wes Moore; Host of Beyond Belief,
Oprah Winfrey Network
President, Miami Dade College; Chairman, White House Commission on
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
Professor, Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
President, College of William and Mary
Professor & Former Provost, Stanford University; Former U.S. Secretary of State
& National Security Advisor
President & CEO, The Seattle Foundation; Former Mayor of Seattle;
Former Member, White House Council for Community Solutions
Senior Policy Advisor, America Forward; Senior Fellow, Center for
American Progress
President, University of Miami; Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Former Peace Corps Volunteer
Board of Advisors, White House Joining Forces Initiative; Board of Directors,
Military Child Education Coalition
Founder & CEO, Share Our Strength
Chairman & CEO, Special Olympics; Chair, Collaborative for Academic,
Social and Emotional Learning
Managing Editor, TIME Magazine; Former CEO, National Constitution Center
CEO, Martha’s Table; Former CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
Former Chair, White House Council for Community Solutions
President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation
President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
President, Target Community Relations; Board Chair, Corporation for National &
Community Service
Senior Advisor, The Franklin Project; Former U.S. Senator; Former CEO,
Corporation for National and Community Service; Former President, Bryn
Mawr College; Associate Director, Peace Corps; Civil Rights Advisor to
President Kennedy
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
FRANKLIN LEADERS
F R A N K L I N PA R T N E R S
Congratulations to the
Aspen Institute:
National Service is closer to
becoming part of America’s
national culture!
FRANKLIN SPONSORS
Laura & Gary Lauder
SERVICE CIRCLE MEMBERS
FRANKLIN SUPPORTERS
MCJ Amelior Foundation
Alfred Goldstein
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LIST OF ATTENDEES*
Fiona Aitken-Hill
Jamiel Alexander
Michael Alter
Daniel Alter
Mark Andrews
Mary Ellen Ardouny
Samuel Ayres
Lois Backon
Don Baer
Sec. Karen Baker
James Balfanz
Meredith Beaton Didier
Dr. Jerry Benson
Samuel Berger
Nomi Bergman
Mike Bezos
Jackie Bezos
Benjamin Black
Naila Bolus
Sidra Bonner
Michael Breen
John Bridgeland
Dr. Kerri Briggs
Michael Brown
Mary Bruce
Anna Burger
Tracey Burton
Barbara Bush
Rev. William Byron S.J.
Kristen Cambell
Dannielle Campos
Michael Carren
Karen Casanova
Andrei Cherny
Chelsea Clinton
Ed Cohen
Carl Colonius
AnnMaura Connolly
Gene Corbin
Rob Coretz
Adam Coretz
Kim Coretz
Rev. Luis Cortes
Dr. Scott Cowen
Jessica Crawford
Steven Culbertson
Julie Fisher Cummings
Maureen Curley
Mayor Karl Dean
John DiIulio Jr.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Dr. Robert Donaldson
Cheryl Dorsey
Senior Vice President, Bank of America
President, National Alumni Council, YouthBuild USA
President, The Alter Group
AmeriCorps Alum
Vice President, Volunteer and Institutional Engagement,
Habitat for Humanity International
President & CEO, The Corps Network
McChrystal Group
Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
Worldwide Chair and CEO, Burson-Marsteller
Secretary of Service and Volunteering, California Volunteers
President, City Year Inc.
Special Assistant, Davidson College
Provost and Senior Vice President, James Madison University
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former National Security Advisor
President, Bright House Networks
Vice President, Bezos Family Foundation
President, Bezos Family Foundation
Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell
President & CEO, Jumpstart
Community HealthCorps Navigator, Community HealthCorps
Executive Director, Truman National Security Project & Center for National Policy
President and CEO, Civic Enterprises
Director of Education Reform, George W. Bush Institute
CEO and Co-Founder, City Year
Senior Education Advisor, Civic Enterprises
Former Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU
Director of Community Relations, Target
CEO and Co-Founder, Global Health Corps
University Professor of Business and Society, St. Joseph’s University
Chief Program Officer, National Conference on Citizenship
Senior Vice President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
Manager of Community Relations, Target
Managing Director, Burson-Marsteller
Board Member, Clinton Foundation
President, Carlin Ventures, Inc.
Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
President, Voices for National Service
Harvard School of Public Service
Chairman, Omni Air International
Project Coordinator, Franklin Project
Director, Coretz Family Foundation
President and CEO, Esperanza
President, Tulane University
Director of Government Affairs, America Forward at New Profit Inc.
President & CEO, Youth Service America
Vice Chair, Max M and Marjorie S Fisher Foundation
President, Campus Compact
Mayor, Metro Nashville and Davidson County, TN
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Columnist, Washington Post
Trustees Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa
President, Echoing Green
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LIST OF ATTENDEES*
Jonny Dorsey
Matthew Dowd
Margo Drakos
Rev. Joshua DuBois
Ben Duda
Gen. (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody
Mickey Edwards
Maya Enista Smith
Debra Eschmeyer
Dr. Denise Fairchild
Abigail Falik
Tom Farrey
Greg Feldman
Max Finberg
Hon. Michele Flournoy
Lissa Franklin
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Benjamin Freakley
Ann Friedman
Lt. Josh Fryday
Nicole Gallant
Rodrigo Garcia
Lisa Garcia Quiroz
LTG (Ret.) Jack Gardner
Meg Garlinghouse
Christopher Gates
Mark Gearan
David Gergen
Anne Gergen
Michael Gerson
Elliot Gerson
Paul Glastris
Dan Glickman
Alfred Goldstein
John Gomperts
Rob Gordon III
Lisa Grattan
Jim Green
Jonathan Greenblatt
Dr. Vivian Greentree
Dr. Richard Guarasci
Blake Hammond
Kenneth Harbaugh
Fagan Harris
David Harris
Patricia de Stacy Harrison
Jane Hartley
Andrew Hauptman
Dr. Mike Haynie
Stephen Heintz
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Director, Impact Careers Initiative
News Correspondent and Analyst, ABC News; Former Presidential Strategist
VP of Business Development, MorphLabs
Founder, Values Partnerships
Executive Director, AmeriCorps Alums
Retired General, United States Army
Director, Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership;
Former US Congressman (OK)
Advisor, Born This Way Foundation
Co-Founder and Vice President of Policy & Partnerships, FoodCorps
President and CEO, Emerald Cities Collaborative
Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year
Director, Sports & Society Program at The Aspen Institute
Managing Partner, Wellspring Capital Management LLC
Senior Advisor, US Department of Agriculture
Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, Center for New American Security
President of the Board of Directors, Bay Area Community Resources (BACR)
Professor, Arizona State University
Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Lieutenant, United States Navy
Consultant, United Way of New York City
Board Chairman, Student Veterans of America
Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility,
Time Warner Inc.
Retired Lieutenant General, United States Army
Head of Social Impact, LinkedIn
Executive Director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE)
President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
CNN Senior Political Analyst; Director, Harvard Kennedy School Center for
Public Leadership
Opinion Writer, The Washington Post
Executive Vice President, The Aspen Institute
Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly Magazine
Executive Director of the Aspen Congressional Program and
Former Secretary of Agriculture
President, AG Associates
President & CEO, America’s Promise Alliance
Former Under Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense
Board Chair, Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Co-Founder, T4A.org
Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation,
Domestic Policy Council
Director of Research and Policy, Blue Star Families
President, Wagner College
Assistant Director of Admissions, Colorado College
ServiceNation
Fellow, Franklin Project
Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts University
President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CEO, Observatory Group
Chairman, Andell, Inc. and Trustee, City Year
Executive Director, Institute for Veterans and Military Families,
Syracuse University
President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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LIST OF ATTENDEES*
Carrie Hessler-Radelet
Thomas Higgins
David Hirsch
Evan Hochberg
Tracy Hoover
Deborah Hopkins
Arianna Huffington
Hyepin Im
Walter Isaacson
Kim Jasmin
Benjamin Jealous
Jacqueline Johnson
Shakim Johnson
Mike Johnston
Dr. Wayne Jonas M.D.
P. Barclay Jones
Kristina Kaufmann
Gerald Kauvar
Dr. Mary Keller
John Kelly
Keith Kelly
Dirk Kempthorne
Dr. Franmarie Kennedy
Paula Kerger
Major Brian Ketz
George Khaldun
Alan Khazei
Vanessa Kirsch
Nick Kislinger
Joe Klein
Sarah Koch
Wendy Kopp
Spencer Kympton
Dr. Leo Lambert
Mayor Mitchell Landrieu
Koby Langley
Laura Lauder
Rachel Levin
Charisse Lillie
Eric Liu
Nicholas Lopes
Adam Lounsbury
Rick Luftglass
Heather Margolis
Aaron Marquez
Ivette Marquez
Senator Mel Martinez
Chris Marvin
Tess Mason-Elder
Zach Maurin
Deputy Director, Peace Corps
Head of Military/Veterans Affairs, JPMorgan Chase
Senior Fellow, Points of Light
National Director of Community Involvement, Deloitte
COO and Chief of Staff, Points of Light
Chief Innovation Officer, Citigroup
President and Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post
President and CEO, Korean Churches for Community Development
President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
Northeast Region Executive, JPMorgan Chase
President and CEO, NAACP
Executive Director, Connecticut Commission on Community Service
Corps Member, Green City Force
State Senator of Colorado
President & CEO, Samueli Institute
Leadership Effectiveness & Community Initiatives Coordinator,
University of Colorado Boulder
Executive Director, Code of Support Foundation
Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration,
The George Washington University
President & CEO, Military Child Education Coalition
Deputy Chief of Staff, Corporation for National and Community Service
Assistant Secretary, Veterans’ Employment Training Service, Department
of Labor
Former Governor and Senator of Idaho and Former United States Secretary
of the Interior
Acting Director of the Health, Biomedical Science, and Society Initiative,
The Aspen Institute
President and CEO, PBS
Chief of Staff, Veterans’ Employment Training Service, Department of Labor
Chief Administrative Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone
Founder and CEO, The Action Tank
Founder and Managing Director, New Profit Inc.
Director, EIF Education Initiative
Columnist, TIME Magazine
Director, Social Innovation, The Case Foundation
CEO and Co-Founder, Teach for All
President, The Mission Continues
President, Elon University
Mayor, New Orleans, LA
Senior Executive Advisor, Corporation for National and Community Service
General Partner, Lauder Partners, LLC
Senior Advisor, Hauptman Family Foundation
Vice President, Comcast Corporation
Founder, Citizen University
Managing Director, Accenture
Executive Director, Volunteer Iowa
Executive Director, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Montana Field Organizer, ServiceNation
U.S. Army Reserve & AmeriCorps Alumnus
Principal, Cesar Chavez School
Chairman of the Southeast & Latin America, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Managing Director, Got Your 6
Policy Analyst, Civic Enterprises
Managing Director, ServiceNation
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LIST OF ATTENDEES*
Annie McChrystal
Gen. (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal
Orin McCluskey
Jim McCorkell
Laura McNulty
William McNulty
Craig Middleton
Dr. Gary Miller
Asim Mishra
Nicole Mlade
Greg Moore
Wes Moore
Tracy Moore
Seth Moulton
Randy Nelson
Jennifer Ney
Michelle Nunn
Rebecca Onie
Rory O’Sullivan
Dr. Pamela Paresky
Whitney Parnell
Dr. Eboo Patel
Jason Patnosh
Stephen Patrick
Kathy Payne
Dale Penny
Raul Perea-Henze, MD
Gregg Petersmeyer
Earl Martin Phalen
Susan Portugal
Greg Propper
Dr. Carol Quillen
Stacey Rapp
Bruce Reed
W. Taylor Reveley III
Lynda Resnick
Norman Rice
Jeffrey Richardson
Pete Riehl
Martin Rodgers
Nancy Rubin
Mary Claire Ryan
Paul Sagan
Ann Sagan
Shirley Sagawa
MG (Ret.) Alan Salisbury
Evelyne Santiago
Paul Schmitz
Dr. Karen Schultz
Eric Schwarz
Sandy Scott
Phyllis Segal
Christopher Shays
Betsi Shays
Lisbeth Shepherd
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Leadership Council Chair, Franklin Project; U.S. Army General (Ret.)
General Partner, The Windrush Fund, LP
Founder & CEO, College Possible
Director of Special Projects, The Action Tank
Co-Founder, Team Rubicon
Executive Director, The Presidio Trust
Chancellor, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Chief of Staff, Corporation for National and Community Service
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Global Partnerships, Peace Corps
President and CEO, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Author, The Other Wes Moore
Group Manager of Community Relations, Target
President, Eastern Healthcare Partners
Fellow, The Mission Continues
Managing Director, Voices for National Service
CEO, Points of Light
Co-Founder and CEO, Health Leads
Policy Director, Young Invincibles
Adjunct Professor, United States Air Force Academy
Street Outreach Coordinator, Capitol Hill Group Ministry
Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core
National Director, Community Health Corps
Executive Director of Aspen Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
Senior Director of Education Leadership, State Farm
CEO, Student Conservation Association
Former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Founder and CEO, Personal Pathways
Founder and CEO, Phalen Leadership Academies & Summer Advantage USA
Senior Vice President and Philanthropy Director, Bank of America
Partner, Propper Daley
President, Davidson College
Program Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President
President, William and Mary
Vice Chairman, Roll Global
Trustee, Casey Family Programs
Executive Director, Serve DC
Managing Director, Bain Capital, LLC
Managing Director, Accenture
Former Ambassador, United Nations
President, Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Executive Vice Chairman, Akamai Technologies
Trustee, Match Education
Senior Policy Advisor, America Forward
Chairman & CEO, Code of Support Foundation
Corps Member, City Year Los Angeles
CEO, Public Allies
Director of The Center for Public Service and Scholarship, Shenandoah University
CEO & Co-Founder, Citizen Schools
Senior Communications Advisor, Corporation for National and Community Service
Vice President, Encore.org
Distinguished Fellow in Public Service, University of New Haven
Educator, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and Former Staff, Worthy Missions
Executive Director, Green City Force
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LIST OF ATTENDEES*
Harris Sherman
Susan S. Sherwin
Patricia Shinseki
Melanie Shorin
Maria Shriver
Tim Shriver
Simran Sidhu
James Silkenat
Karen Skelton
David Smith
Heather Smith
Jacqueline Smith
Michael Smith
Rene Spellman
Wendy Spencer
Dr. Drew Stelljes
Richard “Rick” Stengel
Stacey Stewart
Daniel Stid
Dorothy Stoneman
Hon. Elizabeth Stong
Susan Stroud
Kerry Sullivan
Eric Tanenblatt
Mayor Angel Taveras
Blair Taylor
Noeleen Tillman
Laurie Tisch
Helen Torres
Stephen Trachtenberg
Katarina Trojnar
Sanford Ungar
Noam Unger
David Van Zandt
Lorraine Voles
Dr. Joshua Walker
Megan Walker
Tamitha Walker McKinnis
Rev. Jim Wallis
Laysha Ward
Martin Weinstein
Maicharia Weir Lytle
Zachary Wenner
Greg Werkheiser
Erica Williams
Eli Williamson
Hon. Douglas Wilson
Harris Wofford
Jake Wood
Elizabeth Woodson
Chase Woodward
Tae Yoo
Ilir Zherka
Former Under Secretary, USDA
Executive Vice President for External Relations, The Aspen Institute
Board Member, Military Child Education Coalition
Founder, The Narrative Trust
Journalist, Author & Former First Lady of California
Chairman and CEO, Special Olympics
Executive Director, YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School
President-Elect, American Bar Association
CEO, The Shriver Report
Chief of Programs and Strategy, National Center for Service and
Innovative Leadership
President, Rock the Vote
Executive Director of University Initiatives, Arizona State University
SVP for Social Innovation, Case Foundation
Vice President, MWW Group
CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
Assistant Vice President and Professor of Education, College of William and Mary
Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
U.S. President, United Way Worldwide
Senior Fellow, Hewlett Foundation
President & Founder, YouthBuild USA
US Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York
Executive Director, Innovations in Civic Participation
President, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Corporation for National
and Community Service
Mayor, City of Providence
Chief Community Officer for Global Community, Starbucks
Managing Director, Blue Star Families
President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Executive Director and CEO, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)
President Emeritus, The George Washington University
Senior Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations, The Aspen Institute
President, Goucher College
Vice President, Global Citizen Year
President, The New School
Vice President of External Relations, The George Washington University
International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Chief of Staff, Civic Enterprises
Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation
President, Sojourners
President, Target Community Relations
CEO, Bay Area Community Resources
Executive Director, LIFT, Boston Region
Associate, The Aspen Institute
Director, National Center for Service and Innovative Leadership
CEO, EWS Strategies
Director of Veterans Program, McCormick Foundation
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Senior Advisor, Franklin Project, and Former US Senator
President, Team Rubicon
Associate Director, Aspen Institute Impact Careers Initiative
Freelance Designer
Senior Vice President, Cisco
Executive Director, National Conference on Citizenship
*REGISTERED ATTENDEES AS OF JUNE 10, 2013.
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From Rubey Park (downtown Aspen) to Harris Hall at the Aspen Institute
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America needs universal national service. America’s young adults can help solve our country’s most
pressing challenges and, in the process, become connected to one another and to the nation. As the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are drawn down, and as our country faces new challenges and divisions
within and outside our own borders, we must rebuild a sense of common purpose through national
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big, and our challenges too expansive, for small ideas. Now, let’s get to work.
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National service has the power to transform individuals and communities, to create bridges and
strengthen ties, and to bind generations to one another and to their country. Whether military or civilian,
service establishes an ethic of togetherness that endures long after a tour of duty or a term as a corps
member. The Franklin Project is solution-oriented and pragmatic in its policy agenda and structure, but
its vision is one of enduring cultural change – reaching deeply into how Americans can work together,
regardless of differences, and unite in pursuit of the common good.
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You represent some of America’s most creative talent. We invited you to this Summit because the
Franklin Project’s vision demands the caliber of leadership, experience, and commitment to action that
you all demonstrate. We have designed this as a working summit with several breakout sessions and
ample opportunities for everyone to participate so that it can lead to action and commitments. To engage
our entire nation and embed the concept of a civic rite of passage in our national identity for generations
to come, we ask you to join us in making this vision a reality.
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Since October 2012, the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute has convened top leaders from the
military, government, non-profit, business, labor, philanthropic, education, faith-based, media, and
technology sectors to create a revolutionary plan: one that will enable full-time national service to
become a common expectation and opportunity for all young people in our nation. We have learned from
these top leaders, listened to the views of the American people on national service through a nationally
representative survey, commissioned research on the economic case for national service, analyzed the
evidence for how national service is meeting national challenges, and assembled a Leadership Council
of outstanding Americans from across sectors, administrations and political parties.
We have developed a Plan of Action for a 21st Century National Service System that will offer at least one
million full-time civilian national service opportunities for young adults ages 18-28 every year, on par
with the more than one million Americans who serve on active duty in our Armed Forces. Our Leadership
Council has endorsed this plan, and we hope that each of you will be inspired to sign on as well.
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ABOUT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE
& THE FRANKLIN PROJECT
At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2012, General Stanley McChrystal received an overwhelming
response to his call for large-scale civilian national service to engage more Americans in serving
community and country. The Aspen Institute established the Franklin Project in response to this
call to action, to marshal the best case for a voluntary civilian counterpart to military service in the
United States.
The Franklin Project’s vision is to establish a year of full-time national service as a common
expectation and opportunity for all young Americans ages 18 to 28. Our goal is to create one
million annual opportunities for civilian national service, on par with the number of Americans
serving on active duty in our Armed Forces. We seek to dramatically expand opportunities for young
Americans to contribute their strengths, knowledge, and entrepreneurial energy to solving our
nation’s most pressing challenges, in areas such as education, health, food security, environmental
conservation, veterans’ reintegration, and economic opportunity.
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The Franklin Project seeks to unite leading Americans from all sectors alongside citizens at the
grassroots in calling for and building this new vision of civilian national service. We propose to
fuel the citizen service movement in America by making the case for a year of national service to
become a new civic rite of passage that will bind members of generations to each other and to our
nation, while enlisting them to work together to address great national challenges.
We are focusing on developing a 21st century architecture for national service that builds off of
and strengthens the existing system while promoting new policy ideas to advance the national
service movement. Our work has encompassed a series of gatherings of critical stakeholders and
the publication of seminal papers at The Aspen Institute; briefings for the White House, Congress
and governmental leaders; the development of the Franklin Project Plan of Action; and an actioninspiring Summit leading into the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2013, followed by a public campaign
to be launched in the fall of 2013.
JUNE 24-25 2013
ASPEN COLORADO