On Monday, President Trump sent to Congress his FY19 budget. The White House is once again proposing to eliminate CNCS. Their budget includes just $123M to shut down agency operations and start to close out their grants programs.
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Take a Stand for Service with Points of Light and Voices for National Service
The White House budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 calls for the elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service over the course of the next year, which would include ending national service programs like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps....
Read More »Statement on President Trump’s 2018 Budget
Elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service would devastate more than 1,100 faith-based and community organizations, put 80,000 AmeriCorps members out of work, and prevent 270,000 Senior Corps members from providing vital service to their communities
Read More »Save National Service News Clips
Must read news clips from across the country on the fight to save national service and AmeriCorps
Read More »Rep. David Price and Rep. Billy Long Testify on National Service
On March 1, 2017, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies held a Members’ Day hearing, where Rep. David Price (D-NC) and Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) testified in support of the Corporation for...
Read More »2017 Friends of National Service Awards
Voices for National Service honored 19 distinguished leaders in government, business and journalism at the 14th Annual Friends of National Service Awards at Union Station in Washington, DC.
Read More »Addressing Broken Citizenship And Pressing Challenges through a Service Year
More than two dozen prominent Americans have stepped forward to challenge the candidates of both parties to embrace an important idea that could unite our country and help solve some of our biggest problems: making a year of service a...
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