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We are the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that helps more than 5 million Americans improve the lives of their fellow citizens through service. Working hand in hand with local partners, we tap the ingenuity and can-do spirit of the American people to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation.
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Georgia on Our Minds
Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Wendy Spencer visited the Youth Villages AmeriCorps program in Douglasville, GA, to meet national service members and review the program. She also met with Douglasville Mayor Harvey Persons during the visit.
The 24 Youth Villages AmeriCorps members will offer tutoring, life skills, GED preparation, after-school programming, and service learning to a vulnerable population of students ages 5 to 21 with special and exceptional needs at a residential treatment facility.
Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Wendy Spencer visited the Youth Villages AmeriCorps program in Douglasville, GA, to meet national service members and review...
Sen. John McCain: ‘There are many avenues of service’
In a recent Yahoo news article, U.S. Sen. John McCain expressed confidence about our country’s future, noting that his cynicism vanishes he visits young Americans serving in the military overseas. Then he added this remark about serving our country:
“(I)t’s not just the military. We have the Teach for America program. We have AmeriCorps. There are many avenues of service, and there is nothing nobler than serving a cause greater than your own interest.”
We thank Sen. McCain for this endorsement of service.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is proud to help thousands of Americans serve their country each year through AmeriCorps and Teach For America.
Read the Yahoo news story
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President Obama Talks National Service on The Daily Show
President Obama visited The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night and said this about national service and AmeriCorps:
“We have to give (young people) pathways to get them involved. And so we’ve tried to expand things like AmeriCorps as much as possible. Part of what we want to do is hopefully tie it more to getting a lower-cost college education, so that they get scholarships in return for the work they do. I think that would be a good place for us to start.”
Watch the clip here
Watch The Daily Show extended interview on YouTube
Update on Budget Cuts and Syracuse Foster Grandparents
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer voiced his support for national service and the Syracuse Foster Grandparents program during a visit to the city yesterday.
Sen. Schumer said the following about the program in an official press release:
“Cutting federal support for programs like the Foster Grandparent program in Syracuse, which helps supplement our teachers’ efforts in the classroom, is akin to putting these school districts and children in detention for doing nothing wrong. Our teachers and school administrators have the incredibly important task of educating our children and providing them with the knowledge they need to be successful – but this proposal would punish hundreds of Central New York students and teachers, as well as the senior citizens who want to volunteer out of the goodness of their hearts, for absolutely no reason.
“The federal government can make no better investment than in the education and development of our children, so I am dead set against any proposal that slashes this funding and will fight tooth and nail to preserve it.”
Video courtesy CNY Central News
#Time2Serve for Mandela Day
Mandela Day was inspired by a call Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela made in 2008 for the next generation to take on the burden of leadership in addressing the world’s social injustices when he said “it is in your hands now.”
Three rules guided the late South African leader’s life: Free yourself, free others, and serve every day. Today is a day to remember that call.
At the Corporation for National and Community Service, we support Mandela Day’s goal to inspire people to serve. If we make every day a Mandela Day, the world will surely be a better place.
Learn more about Mandela Day, and how you can take action on July 18 and throughout the year at www.MandelaDay.com.
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