By Alan D. Solomont – Obscured behind the common narratives that paint millennials as a “me generation” lies an often-overlooked fact: Today’s young people want to serve.
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Voters Overwhelmingly Support Funding National Service
In October 2015, Republican firm TargetPoint Consulting conducted a poll of registered voters across nine presidential battleground states. The poll found that voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support investing federal taxpayer dollars to support national service programs. 83% of voters...
Read More »ThinkProgress: Lost In The Noise Of Budget Standoff, Funding For Volunteer Work Faces Huge Cuts
By Alan Pyke – The Corporation for National and Community Service, which funds AmeriCorps programs and volunteers among other service work, is facing drastic cuts in both the House (34 percent) and Senate (20 percent) budget packages.
Read More »Senator Kelly Ayotte: Standing Together for the AmeriCorps
By Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) Today marks 21 years since the first class of AmeriCorps members was sworn in on the White House lawn. It would be hard to imagine what New Hampshire’s parks and inner city schools would be...
Read More »The Hill: We Need AmeriCorps to Make America Better
By Elisa Villanueva Beard - Since 1994, more than 900,000 individuals—Teach For America’s corps members and alumni among them—have stepped up through AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to make this nation a better place.
Read More »Voices for National Service Capitol Hill Day
Service leaders representing 70 organizations met with more than 100 congressional offices to discuss the impact of national service programs in their communities. The national service leaders urged their elected officials to support federal funding for national service, and asked...
Read More »Baltimore Sun: Don’t Cut AmeriCorps Funds
By Maureen K. Eccleston - Congress recently proposed a bill that would destroy national service as we know it, cutting the number of AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers serving here in Baltimore and all across the country.
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