By Robert Balfanz - Strategic expansion of AmeriCorps is how we can rapidly and more equitably provide the additional capacity to enact what is needed to support our students through the impact of COVID-19 and continued racial injustice.
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The CORPS Act: Cultivating Opportunity and Response to the Pandemic through Service Act
The CORPS Act calls for strengthening and expanding AmeriCorps and Senior Corps to help our nation recover from COVID-19.
Read More »Dozens of Bipartisan Mayors from Across the U.S. Ask Congress to Expand National Service Programs to Help with COVID-19 Response and Recovery
More than 50 mayors from across the country have called on Congress to provide federal funding for a comprehensive, locally focused, national service strategy to help communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »Statement on the Final Report of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service
Together the national service recommendations, if enacted, would lead to a new era in American life, where every American would be asked and given the opportunity to serve.
Read More »Latest Stimulus Bill Includes Some Essential Relief for AmeriCorps and Senior Corps
Nonprofit organizations that rely on AmeriCorps and Senior Corps to provide relief to the communities they serve have received some critically needed support in the latest economic stabilization and stimulus bill, passed by the U.S. Senate,
Read More »Administration’s Budget Would End AmeriCorps and Senior Corps
For the fourth straight year, the administration’s FY 2021 budget calls for the elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
Read More »Bipartisan Group of National Service Champions to be Honored for Support of AmeriCorps and Senior Corps
Senators Blunt, Coons, and Merkley, Representatives DeLauro, Thompson, and Walorski, and Governor Gavin Newsom among honorees.
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