News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
It's just me gritting my teeth, as I get ready to write something nice about the governor...The occasion is what he did Tuesday, in making California the first state in the nation with a Cabinet-level office for organizing and coordinating volunteer..
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cited last year's San Francisco Bay oil spill and the ensuing gush of unused volunteers as he signed an executive order Tuesday making California the first state with a Cabinet-level office devoted to organizing volunteers..
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
Schwarzenegger said he first started thinking about the Cabinet post as a serious idea in October, after watching volunteers at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, during the fires. Some of them didn't know if their own homes had escaped the inferno,...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 year ago
Volunteerism agency will deploy resources to natural disasters...Schwarzenegger named Karen Baker, executive director of the governor's commission for volunteerism, as secretary of service and volunteering, the first such state cabinet position in...