The NonProfit Times Names City Year CEO Michael Brown and ServiceNation Colleagues "2008 Executives of the Year"

For advancing the national service agenda, The NonProfit Times has named as its 2008 "Executives of the Year" City Year CEO and Co-Founder Michael Brown and his ServiceNation colleagues, John Bridgeland, president and CEO of Civic Enterprises, Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Alan Khazei, CEO and founder of Be the Change, Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of the Points of Light Institute, and Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME magazine.

The NonProfit Times honored these executives for their leadership in organizing the ServiceNation coalition and the September 11th ServiceNation Summit, which featured a nationally televised Presidential Forum on Service with Senator John McCain and then-Senator Barack Obama and convened more than 500 of the nation's leaders to discuss how service can be expanded to solve major problems facing our country.

In The NonProfit Times article announcing the 2008 Executives of the Year, Michael Brown shared his vision for national service and the importance of the ServiceNation agenda: There is "a very strong sense in the country that we need to move forward by calling on citizens to directly engage the problems of our country. I think it's palpable. It's not partisan and it is part of the spirit of the country. As members of service organizations, we have to model the idea that there's something larger than ourselves."

To read The NonProfit Times full story, click here.