Groups Gather for Emergency Summit on Volunteerism as Response to Economic Crisis

The summit, "A Nation of Neighbors Helping Neighbors: A Summit on Volunteerism as a Response to the Economic Crisis," will be held at the Marriott East Side in New York City on Friday, February 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will be webcast live at www.kofc.org.

Executives from more than three dozen educational, corporate, charitable and governmental organizations will discuss the ways in which volunteers and volunteer organizations can respond to community needs made increasingly acute by the economic crisis. The organizations include Habitat for Humanity, United Way, the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, the National Fraternal Congress of America, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, General Electric, the Foodbank of Greater New Jersey, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Goldman Sachs and Volunteers of America.