Barack Obama will enable all Americans to serve:

Obama and Biden will expand AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps, engage retiring Americans, and set up an America's Voice Initiative to send Americans who are fluent speakers of local languages to expand our public diplomacy.

Integrate service into learning:

Obama and Biden will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year, and will establish a new tax credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.

Invest in the nonprofit sector:

Obama and Biden will create a Social Investment Fund Network to use federal seed money to leverage private sector funding. They will create an agency dedicated to building the capacity and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector.

A more detailed description of this stuff is available here; http://www.barackobama.com/issues/service/#enable-americans

At first glance, this stuff is alarming to me.  At second glance, it doesn't get any better.

But perhaps I'm merely a surly old curmudgeon lacking in altruism and overly cynical.