Jacob Johnson

The idea:  Service can be an occasional event, or it can become part of who you are. The people who serve for a lifetime aren't superheroes; they simply built helping others into their habits until...

The idea:  Service doesn't only happen with a club or at school, some of the best of it happens at home, with your family. Serving together helps people who need it and pulls a family closer at the...

The idea:  There's a big jump from helping with a project to being the one who makes it happen. Leading a service project means taking an idea and turning it into a real day of work that helps real...

The idea:  Your voice, what you say, post, and share, can move other people to act. Used well, especially online, it can inspire far more people to serve than you could ever reach one at a time. Th...

The idea:  Getting someone to show up once is only half the battle. Whether they ever come back depends on how they're treated that first time. A newcomer who feels welcomed, useful, and noticed be...

The idea:  The fastest way to do more good isn't to work harder yourself, it's to bring other people with you. Most people who don't serve simply were never asked, or didn't want to show up alone. ...

The idea:  People naturally cluster with others like themselves, and end up not really knowing anyone different. Service is one of the few things that puts very different people shoulder to shoulde...

The idea:  All over the world, young people are serving their communities, feeding neighbors, cleaning rivers, tutoring kids, welcoming newcomers. When you connect with them, you realize you aren't...

The idea:  A day of service is a single day when lots of people show up at once to tackle real work, cleaning, building, packing, planting, side by side. It's the easiest way to step into service: ...

The need:  About one in four adults lives with some kind of disability, physical, sensory, intellectual, or hidden. Most of the time, the hardest part isn't the disability itself; it's being left o...