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Briefing Materials
September 9, 2013

I. Task Force Fact Sheet
a. Task Force Overview
“An Opportunity to Address Our Country’s Greatest Needs”
b. CNCS Partnership Examples
“National Service in Action”
II. Task Force Program Models
“Ways We Can Help”
III. Presidential Memorandum
“Expanding National Service Through Partnerships to Advance Government Priorities”
IV. Slide Presentation (with talking points)
“Partnerships to Achieve Your Mission By Expanding National Service”
V. Appendix A: Context for Partnerships
a. Sample Interagency Agreement (IAA)
(CNCS and the U.S. Department of Education)
b. Guidance on Match Funds
(U.S. Department of Education)
c. Memo on Volunteering
(U.S. Department of Labor)
VI. Appendix B: CNCS Fact Sheets
a. CNCS
b. AmeriCorps
c. AmeriCorps NCCC
d. AmeriCorps VISTA
e. Senior Corps
f. Disaster Services
g. CNCS Organizational Chart
Table of Contents

THE PRESIDENT’S CALL TO ACTION
On July 15, President Obama issued a
Presidential Memorandum that establishes
the Task Force on Expanding National
Service. The Task Force consists of
representatives of 13 cabinet departments, six
additional federal agencies and offices, and
other agencies to be designated.
Wendy Spencer, the CEOof the Corporation
for National and Community Service
(CNCS), and Cecilia Muñoz, the Director of
the White House Domestic Policy Council,
will co-chair the Task Force.
THE GOAL OF THE TASK FORCE
The Task Force will advance Agency and Administration priorities through the expansion of national service.
SIX WAYS TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL
1. Interagency Service Corps – Launch new national service corps through interagency partnerships
2. Pipeline to Public Service – Create a pipeline of Americans who are ready to enter public service and
apply the skills they learn through national service
3. Policy Solutions – Explore policy solutions that advance the Task Force’s goal
4. Efficiency through Innovation – Increase the efficiency of tax dollars through the use of innovation and
technology
5. Public-Private Partnerships – Identify public-private partnerships to expand national service
6. Cross-Agency Coordination – Coordinate volunteering and service programs across the federal
government
HOW CNCS CAN WORK WITH AGENCIES
CNCS is a federal agency that brings 20 years of experience of delivering national service and volunteerism as
solutions to our communities. More than 80,000 AmeriCorps members and 360,000 Senior Corps volunteers
tackle the most pressing challenges facing America: educating millions of students; supporting individuals and
families on the road to economic recovery; supporting veterans and military families; helping communities
rebuild after disasters; improving at-risk ecosystems; and providing healthy futures for children across the
country.
Task Force Overview:
An Opportunity to Address Our Nation’s Greatest Needs

FEMA CORPS, a partnership between the Federal
Emergency Management Agency and the
Corporation for National and Community Service,
is a new 1,600 member AmeriCorps National
Civilian Community Corps program solely devoted
to disaster response and recovery. FEMA Corps
members provided invaluable service in the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and recent tornadoes
in the Midwest and have developed innovative
ways to serve disaster survivors – all while saving
taxpayer dollars.
SCHOOL TURNAROUND AMERICORPS, a
partnership between the Department of Education
and CNCS, will bring more than 650 new
AmeriCorps membersinto the nation’s lowest-
performing schools to support and sustain
turnaround efforts. These AmeriCorps members will
work to boost student academic achievement,
attendance, high school graduation rates, and college
and career readiness. This initiative will maximize
the Department of Education’s existing investment in
the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.
STEM AMERICORPS, which President Obama
announced at the White House Science Fair this
spring, is a multi-year initiative to place hundreds
of AmeriCorps members in nonprofitsacrossthe
country. These members will mobilize STEM
professionals to inspire young people to excel in
science, technology, engineering, and math. This
will in turn build the pipeline for future STEM
careers. STEM AmeriCorps buildson the
President’s “Educate to Innovate,” a nationwide
effort to move American students from the middle
to the top of the pack in science and math
achievement over the next decade.
PartnershipExamples:
National Service in Action

Questions to Consider CAPACITY BUILDING
DIRECT SERVICE:
TEAM-BASED
DIRECT SERVICE:
GRANT PROGRAMS
Whatare the different
models of nationalservice?
AmeriCorps members orSeniorCorps
volunteers workwith organizationsto
providecommunitysupportand
organization.Members maycoordinate
volunteers,butarenotdirectservice
providers.Forexample,members
would recruitvolunteertutors rather
than tutorchildren directly.
AmeriCorps members servein teams
to accomplish serviceprojects that
rangein length fromfour weeks to10
months.Projects could include
restoringtrails,tutoringchildren,or
buildinghomes forlow-income
residents.
CNCS issues grants tonon-profit
organizations and communitypartners
(e.g. HabitatforHumanity,CityYear,
YouthBuild,Jumpstart,etc.)to support
AmeriCorps members orSeniorCorps
volunteers whoaddress unmet
communityneeds.
Whatis an example ofthis
type of partnership?
STEMAmeriCorps members will serve
with nonprofitsacross thecountryto
mobilizeSTEMprofessionals tohelp
youngpeopleexcel in science,
technology,engineering,and math.
FEMACorps is a partnership between
theFederal EmergencyManagement
Agencyand CNCS.Itis a team-based
programthatplaces members around
thecountryto providecritical support
after disastersanddevelop thenext
generation ofemergencymanagers.
School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a
partnership between theDepartmentof
Education and CNCS thatplaces
members with granteepartners atthe
nation’slowestperformingschools
wheretheywill workto booststudent
achievement,attendance,and
graduation rates.
Which CNCS programs
should I consider?
• AmeriCorps VISTA
• AmeriCorps Stateand National
• AmeriCorps NCCC
• SeniorCorps
• AmeriCorps NCCC
• AmeriCorps VISTA– Summer
Associate
• SeniorCorps
Whatis the average timeline?
(From identifying agency priority
to getting boots on the ground)
• Threemonths tooneyear • Threeto ninemonths • Threemonths tooneyear
How long does a memberserve? • 10 months tooneyear • 10 months tooneyear
• As longas oneyear
(part-timeor full-timecapacity)
How long is the initial
partnership?
• Oneto three years • Oneto three years • Threeyears
Ways We Can Help:
Our ProgramModels

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release July 15, 2013
July 15, 2013
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Expanding National Service Through Partnerships
to Advance Government Priorities
Service has always been integral to the American identity.
Our country was built on the belief that all of us, working
together, can make this country a better place for all. That
spirit remains as strong and integral to our identity today as
at our country's founding.
Since its creation 20 years ago, the Corporation for National
and Community Service (CNCS) has been the Federal agency charged
with leading and expanding national service. The Edward M.
Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 (SAA) expanded CNCS's
authority to create opportunities for more Americans to serve.
This landmark, bipartisan legislation focuses national service
on six areas: emergency and disaster services; economic
opportunity; education; environmental stewardship; healthy
futures; and veterans and military families. The SAA provides
greater opportunities for CNCS to partner with other executive
departments and agencies (agencies) and with the private sector
to utilize national service to address these critical areas.
National service and volunteering can be effective solutions to
national challenges and can have positive and lasting impacts
that reach beyond the immediate service experience. Americans
engaged in national service make an intensive commitment to
tackle unmet national and local needs by working through
non-profit, faith-based, and community organizations. Service
can help Americans gain valuable skills, pursue higher
education, and jumpstart their careers, which can provide
immediate and long-term benefits to those individuals, as well
as the communities in which they serve.
Americans are ready and willing to serve. Applications from
Americans seeking to engage in national service programs far
exceed the number of available positions. By creating new
partnerships between agencies and CNCS that expand national
service opportunities in areas aligned with agency missions, we
can utilize the American spirit of service to improve lives and
communities, expand economic and educational opportunities,
enhance agencies' capacity to achieve their missions,
efficiently use tax dollars, help individuals develop skills
that will enable them to prepare for long-term careers, and
build a pipeline to employment inside and outside the Federal
Government.

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Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and
in order to expand the positive impact of national service,
I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Establishing a Task Force on Expanding National
Service. There is established a Task Force on Expanding
National Service, to be co-chaired by the Chief Executive
Officer of CNCS and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council,
which shall include representatives from agencies and offices
that administer programs and develop policies in areas that
include the six focus areas set forth in the SAA. The Task
Force shall include representatives from:
(a) the Department of Defense;
(b) the Department of Justice;
(c) the Department of the Interior;
(d) the Department of Agriculture;
(e) the Department of Commerce;
(f) the Department of Labor;
(g) the Department of Health and Human Services;
(h) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(i) the Department of Transportation;
(j) the Department of Energy;
(k) the Department of Education;
(l) the Department of Veterans Affairs;
(m) the Department of Homeland Security;
(n) the Peace Corps;
(o) the National Science Foundation;
(p) the Office of Personnel Management;
(q) the Environmental Protection Agency;
(r) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and
(s) such other agencies and offices as the co-chairs may
designate.
Sec. 2. Mission and Function of the Task Force. (a) The
Task Force shall:
(i) identify existing, and, if appropriate,
recommend new, policies or practices that support the
expansion of national service and volunteer
opportunities that align with the SAA and agency
priorities;

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(ii) make recommendations on the most effective way
to coordinate national service and volunteering
programs across the Federal Government;
(iii) identify and develop opportunities for
interagency agreements between CNCS and other agencies
to support the expansion of national service and
volunteering;
(iv) identify and develop public-private
partnerships to support the expansion of national
service and volunteering;
(v) identify and develop strategies to use
innovation and technology to facilitate the ability of
the public to participate in national service and
volunteering activities; and
(vi) develop a mechanism to evaluate the
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of national
service and volunteering interventions in achieving
agency priorities, and aggregate and disseminate the
results of that evaluation.
(b) Within 18 months of the date of this memorandum, the
Task Force shall provide the President with a report on the
progress made with respect to the functions set forth in
subsection (a) of this section.
Sec. 3. Facilitating National Service and Volunteering
Partnerships. (a) Each agency on the Task Force shall:
(i) within 180 days of the date of this memorandum,
consult with CNCS about how existing authorities and
CNCS programs can be used to enter into interagency
and public-private partnerships that allow for
meaningful national service and volunteering
opportunities, including participating in AmeriCorps,
and help the agency achieve its mission;
(ii) work with CNCS to evaluate the effectiveness
and cost-effectiveness of such partnerships; and
(iii) work with CNCS to identify ways in which the
agency's national service participants and volunteers
can develop transferable skills, and also how national
service can serve as a pipeline to employment inside
and outside the Federal Government.
(b) Where practicable, agencies may consider entering into
interagency agreements with CNCS to share program development
and funding responsibilities, as authorized under 42 U.S.C.
12571(b)(1).
Sec. 4. Recruitment of National Service Participants in
the Civilian Career Services. In order to provide national
service participants a means to pursue additional opportunities
to continue their public service through career civilian
service, the Office of Personnel Management shall, within
120 days of the date of this memorandum, issue guidance to
agencies on developing and improving Federal recruitment
strategies for participants in national service.

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Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law or Executive Order
to an agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent
with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the
United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its
officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) The Chief Executive Officer of CNCS is hereby
authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the
Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
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Partnerships to Achieve Your Mission
By Expanding National Service
This PowerPoint presentation provides added context for the Task Force on Expanding National
Service.
It will give you an overview of how to use national service to achieve your mission, and can
serve as a resource for your staff to learn and share key information.
National service engages citizen volunteers in problem-solving, uses competition to fund high-
value programs, leverages substantial outside support, and mobilizes volunteers to multiply
impact. Through its programs, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
mobilizes 5 million volunteers and leverage hundreds of millions of dollars of non-CNCS
resources from business, foundations, and other sources.

Agenda
• Task Force Overview
• Interagency Partnerships
• Introduction to CNCS
• This presentation will provide background and context for the Task Force on Expanding
National Service.
• We’ll look at several examples of successful partnerships.
• You’ll get a simplified explanation of how to work with the Corporation for National and
Community Service to achieve the President’s goals.
• And we’ll introduce you to CNCS and its major initiatives.

Task Force Overview
THE GOAL OF THE TASK FORCE
The Task Force will advance Agency and Administration priorities through the expansion of
national service.
National service engages citizen volunteers in problem-solving, uses competition to fund high-
value programs, leverages substantial outside support, and mobilizes volunteers to multiply
impact. CNCS programs annually mobilize 5 million volunteers and leverage hundreds of millions
of dollars of non-CNCS resources from business, foundations, and other sources.

Task Force Announcement
And today I want to announce a new task force […] to
take a fresh look at how we can better support national
service – in particular, on some of our most important
national priorities: improving schools, recovering from
disasters and mentoring our kids.
-- President Obama, July 15, 2013
• Building on a longstanding tradition of bipartisan support for national service and volunteerism,
President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that establishes an interagency Task Force
led by the CNCS at an event honoring President George H.W. Bush for his life of service.
• The Task Force will develop strategies to expand national service to meet national needs through
collaboration with other Federal agencies and the private sector, and; is the latest in a series of
actions the Administration has taken over the past four years to expand opportunities for
Americans to serve, focus service on pressing challenges.
• Among other activities, the Task Force will make recommendations on polices to expand national
service opportunities, recommend ways to coordinate volunteering and service programs across
the Federal government, develop opportunities for interagency agreements between CNCS and
other federal agencies, and identify public-private partnerships to expand national service.
• Over the next six months, agencies participating on the Task Force will confer with CNCS about
potential partnerships to engage more Americans in national service to solve problems and
advance agency priorities.
• By creating new interagency and public-private partnerships for national service, the President’s
action will engage more Americans in results-driven service, expand economic and educational
opportunities for those who serve, enhance Federal agencies’ capacity to achieve their missions,
more efficiently use tax dollars, and build the pipeline of Americans ready to enter public service.

Task Force Partners
• Co-chaired by the CEO of CNCS, Wendy Spencer and the Director of the White House
Domestic Policy Council, Cecilia Muñoz, the National Service Task Force partners include the
following 18 agencies and offices (and other agencies to be designated):
the Department of Defense
the Department of Justice
the Department of the Interior
the Department of Agriculture
the Department of Commerce
the Department of Labor
the Department of Health and Human Services
the Department of Housing and Urban Development
the Department of the Treasury
the Department of Transportation
the Department of Energy
the Department of Education
the Department of Veterans Affairs
the Department of Homeland Security
the Peace Corps
the National Science Foundation
the Office of Personnel Management
the Environmental Protection Agency

Partnerships and Growth
• Solve Problems
• Increase Efficiency
• Achieve Priorities
• Create Opportunities
Your
Agency
When you partner with national service, you get a cost-effective, human-capital solution that
builds pathways to opportunity and helps achieve your agency’s mission.
We help you:
• Achieve priorities
• Create opportunities
• Solve problems
• Increase efficiency
Six Ways to Achieve Our Goal
• Launch new national service corps through interagency partnerships
• Create a pipeline of Americans who are ready to enter public service and apply the skills they
learn through national service
• Explore policy solutions that advance the Task Force’s goal
• Increase the efficiency of tax dollars through the use of innovation and technology
• Identify public-private partnerships to expand national service
• Coordinate volunteering and service programs across the federal government

How You Can Partner With Us
• How can national service help meet your agency’s mission?
• New corps for “capacity-building” or “boots on the ground”
Three Program Models:
• Capacity Building
• Direct Service: Team-Based
• Direct Service: Grant Programs
• Expand policies or practices within your agency to support national service
• There are things you can do today to support national service:
• Example: U.S. Dept. of Ed. guidance on match funds

Direct Service: Team-Based
What is the service model?
AmeriCorps members serve in teams to accomplish service projects that range in length from
four weeks to 10 months. Projects could include restoring trails, tutoring children, or building
homes for low-income residents.
Which CNCS programs should I consider?
AmeriCorps State and National
AmeriCorps NCCC
AmeriCorps VISTA – Summer Associate
What is the average timeline?
(From identifying agency priority to getting boots on the ground)
Three to nine months
How long does a member serve?
10 months to one year
How long is the initial partnership?
One to three years

FEMA Corps
What’s an example of an existing partnership?
FEMA Corps is a partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and CNCS. It
is a team-based program that places members around the country to provide critical support
after disasters and develop the next generation of emergency managers.
• In the Spring of 2012, CNCS partnered with FEMA to announce the creation of a new program
designed to strengthen the nation's ability to respond to and recover from disasters while
expanding career opportunities for young people.
• FEMA Corps is a new 1,600-member program of AmeriCorps NCCC solely devoted to disaster
response and recovery. FEMA Corps strengthens disaster capacity, prepares young people
for emergency management careers, and saves significant taxpayer dollars. FEMA Corps
members provided invaluable service in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and recent
tornadoes in the Midwest and have developed innovative ways to serve disaster survivors.
• President Obama recently recognized FEMA Corps in his remarks presenting the new
management agenda, stating: “For example, until recently, when a natural disaster struck,
teams from FEMA had to rely exclusively on in-person inspections to figure out which
families needed help … And FEMA agents went door-to-door in some areas with iPads,
helping residents who had lost power and Internet access sign up for disaster relief without
leaving their homes. So making sure that we’re delivering services better, faster, more
efficiently.”

Direct Service: Grant Programs
CNCS issues grants to non-profit organizations and community partners (e.g. Habitat for
Humanity, City Year, YouthBuild, Jumpstart, etc.) to support AmeriCorps members or Senior
Corps volunteers who address unmet community needs.
Senior Corps
Three months to one year
As long as one year
(part-time or full-time capacity)
Three years

School Turnaround AmeriCorps
School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a partnership between the Department of Education and
CNCS that places members with grantee partners at the nation’s lowest performing schools
where they will work to boost student achievement, attendance, and graduation rates.
• In February, 2013, CNCS CEO Wendy Spencer joined U.S. Sec. of Education Arne Duncan to
announce School Turnaround AmeriCorps, a new competitive grant program to reinforce and
accelerate intervention efforts in the nation’s lowest-performing schools.
• School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a partnership between the Department of Education and
AmeriCorps that will bring more than 650 new AmeriCorps members into some of our
lowest-performing schools this fall, where they will work to boost student academic
achievement, attendance, high school graduation rates, and college and career readiness.
• In July 2013, the first School Turnaround AmeriCorps grants were announced, with $15
million over three years going to 13 organizations in 70 urban and rural communities across
the country.
• School Turnaround AmeriCorps will leverage an anticipated $18 million in grantee match
funding in addition to the $15 million in federal funds during a three-year cycle. The 13
awardees were selected from 66 applicants from around the country.

Capacity Building
AmeriCorps members or Senior Corps volunteers work with organizations to provide community
support and organization. Members may coordinate volunteers, but are not direct service
providers. For example, members would recruit volunteer tutors rather than tutor children
directly.
AmeriCorps VISTA
AmeriCorps NCCC
Senior Corps
Three months to one year
10 months to one year
One to three years

STEM AmeriCorps
STEM AmeriCorps members will serve with nonprofits across the country to mobilize STEM
professionals to help young people excel in science, technology, engineering, and math.
• STEM AmeriCorps, which President Obama announced at the White House Science Fair this
spring, is a multi-year initiative to place hundreds of AmeriCorps members in nonprofits across
the country to mobilize STEM professionals to inspire young people to excel in science,
technology, engineering, and math to build the pipeline for future STEM careers.
• In the first phase, CNCS will place 50 full-time AmeriCorps members with FIRST®
(For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit founded by inventor Dean Kamen to
inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people through robotics competitions.
• The AmeriCorps members will serve in low-income communities across the country. They will
recruit volunteers and support teams of students to participate in FIRST competitions, making it
possible for more students to be exposed to the STEM fields.
• Through a grant competition in late 2013, CNCS will provide funding to hundreds of STEM-
focused AmeriCorps members across the country. AmeriCorps members will recruit and support
thousands of STEM professionals to volunteer through in-school, after-school, and other
academic programs. To maximize this opportunity, CNCS will pursue partnerships with both the
private sector and other federal agencies.

Who We Are
$850 million
leveraged
by partners
5 million
Americans
70,000
locations
• The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more
than five million Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Social Innovation
Fund, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs, and leads the President's national call to
service initiative, United We Serve.
• National service engages citizen volunteers in problem-solving, uses competition to fund
high-value programs, leverages substantial outside support, and mobilizes volunteers to
multiply impact. CNCS programs annually mobilize 5 million volunteers and leverage
hundreds of millions of dollars of non-CNCS resources from business, foundations, and other
sources.
• CNCS is already working with other federal agencies to leverage national service to meet
national needs. The Presidential Memorandum will accelerate those efforts and open the
door to new partnerships. Expanding upon its existing system of private sector matching,
CNCS is also actively reaching out to corporations, foundations, and other funders to secure
additional support for national service.

Our Focus Areas
Disaster Services
Economic Opportunity
Education
Environmental Stewardship
Healthy Futures
Veterans and Military Families
• With bipartisan Congressional support, the President has worked with CNCS to focus service
on pressing social problems; expand opportunities for more Americans of all ages and
backgrounds to serve; build the capacity of individuals, nonprofits, and communities; and
embrace social innovation.
• CNCS recognizes that national service will have its greatest impact if we target resources on a
core set of critical problems and carefully measure our progress and prioritizes six major
challenges facing communities: disaster services, economic opportunity, education,
environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.

Our Programs
• AmeriCorps provides opportunities for more than 80,000 Americans each year to give
intensive service to their communities and country through three programs: AmeriCorps
(grants), AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps).
• AmeriCorps members tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, assist veterans and
military families, provide health services, run after-school programs, help communities
respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining,
among many other activities.
• AmeriCorps members in recent years have stepped up their role in recruiting, training, and
managing volunteers of all ages and backgrounds, supporting 3.4 million community
volunteers in 2011 alone.
• In exchange for a year of full-time service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education
Award that can be used to pay for college or graduate school, or to pay back qualified
student loans. Since 1994, more than 800,000 Americans have given 1 billion hours of service
through AmeriCorps.

Our Programs
• Each year Senior Corps taps the skills, talents, and experience of more than 330,000
Americans age 55 and older to meet a wide range of community challenges through three
programs: RSVP, the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Senior Companion Program.
• RSVP volunteers help local police departments conduct safety patrols, participate in
environmental projects, provide intensive educational services to children and adults, and
respond to natural disasters, among many other activities.
• Foster Grandparents serve one-on-one as tutors and mentors to young people with special
needs.
• Senior Companions help homebound seniors and other adults maintain independence in
their own homes.

Our Programs
Social
Innovation Fund
• The Social Innovation Fund represents a new approach by the federal government to address
urgent national challenges.
• As part of the Administration’s innovation agenda, CNCS launched the Social Innovation
Fund, a unique model that improves the lives of people in low-income communities and
expands the impact of high-performing organizations using evidence-based practices.
• In its first three years, the Social Innovation Fund has invested in 200 nonprofit organizations
in 34 states and Washington, DC and served more than 174,000 individuals. Through its
unique 3 to 1 match structure, it has attracted commitments of more than $350 million in
private and non-federal funds.

Our Programs
Volunteer Generation Fund
19 states
• CNCS strengthens the impact of America’s volunteers by bringing more individuals into
service and building the capacity of nonprofits to effectively manage volunteers.
• That’s why CNCS is thrilled that the President’s FY 2014 budget requests a significant increase
in the Volunteer Generation Fund, a CNCS program to strengthen volunteer management
practices, and proposes renaming the program the George H.W. Bush Volunteer Generation
Fund.
• CNCS also leads national days of service: in particular, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of
Service and the September 11th
National Day of Service and Remembrance. Annually, these
events provide opportunities for 760,000 volunteers to serve every year.
• In June 2009, CNCS joined with the White House to launch United We Serve, a challenge to
all Americans to engage in sustained, meaningful community service to help in our nation's
renewal and recovery. Americans have responded enthusiastically to the President's call,
joining with friends and neighbors to replenish food banks, support veterans and military
families, restore public lands, and more.
• The Administration worked with technology leaders to develop a volunteer matching tool for
the Serve.gov website featuring more than 250,000 volunteer opportunities, and teamed up
with top sports stars and celebrities to promote volunteer service.

Our Grantees
• As the nation’s largest grantmaker for service and volunteering, CNCS plays a critical role in
strengthening America’s nonprofit sector and addressing our nation’s challenges through
service.
• CNCS programs provide grants to some of the nation’s leading nonprofits, including familiar
names like the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and more.

Our Corporate Supporters
• Most organizations who receive CNCS grants are required to obtain matching funds with non-
CNCS resources, which often includes private sector and corporate entities.
• In addition, CNCS has found opportunities to sponsor with its corporate supporters in other
ways. For example:
• Time Warner, Southwest Airlines, and Shell also supported AmeriCorps response efforts in
Hurricane Sandy-affected New York and New Jersey.
• Google is financing an AmeriCorps program designed to help nonprofits effectively use
technology to further their missions.
• And Bank of America has enlisted AmeriCorps members to support financial literacy efforts.

ServiceTaskForce@cns.gov
• If you have questions or partnership ideas, please email servicetaskforce@cns.gov.

Appendix A:
Context for Partnerships

INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
AND THE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
1.0 Purpose
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the U.S. Department of
Education (ED) (hereafter collectively, "the Parties") enter into this Interagency Agreement
(IAA) pursuant to their respective authorities outlined below. The Parties will work
collaboratively to develop, fund, and establish an AmeriCorps grant program called the "School
Turnaround AmeriCorps". This program will combine the resources of ArneriCorps, ED's
School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, and support from national private sector partners and
local programs, to increase educational achievement, high school graduation rates, and college
readiness for students in our nation's lowest-performing elementary, middle and high schools.
School Turnaround AmeriCorps will be funded through a combination ofFederal and non-
Federal (private) funds.
2.0 General Description of Agreement
(A) This IAA constitutes an agreement between CNCS and ED and may be amended or
modified by the Parties in accordance with Section 9.0 ofthis IAA as necessary. Any
Exhibits attached to this IAA constitute an inteb'Tal part of this IAA.
(B) The initial term of this IAA begins upon the date of signature ofthis IAA by both Parties,
and remains in effect until the close-out ofthe School Turnaround AmeriCorps grants
awarded for the 2015-2016 academic year.
(C) School Turnaround AmeriCorps Grants will be three-year grants.
(D) The Parties intend that Members of the School Turnaround ArneriCorps will perform
service pursuant to this IAA during the 2013-2014,2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic
years.
(E) Subject to the availability of funds, CNCS and ED shall provide funding to support the
School Turnaround AmeriCorps in accordance with this IAA. CNCS and ED shall each
contribute $2.5 million for each year ofthe School Turnaround AmeriCorps program to
support Grants, cbildcare for Members and the Grant Application and Review Process costs.
ED shall transfer that $2.5 million to CNCS each year in accordance with Paragraph 7 of
this IAA. CNCS shall also commit resources necessary to support the School Turnaround
AmeriCorps program including administrative support, information technology support,
certain evaluation costs, and training and technical assistance for Grantees for each year of
the School Turnaround AmeriCorps program. In addition, CNCS will commit the value of
the Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards for all Members for Year 1 and Year 2 ofthis
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Parties agree to resolve responsibility for the funding ofthe Segal AmeriCorps Education
Awards for Year 3 at an appropriate time in the future. In any event, ED will not be
required to contribute more than $2.5 miJlion in any year ofthe School Turnaround
ArneriCorps program.
(F) CNCS and ED shall develop a plan to raise at least $5 million for each year of the three
years of the program created by this IAA from non-Federal sources. All potential donors
must be approved by ED and CNCS in accordance with each Party's procedures prior to
accepting donations from potential donors by either Party on behalf ofthe School
Turnaround AmeriCorps. The Parties agree not to accept donations for the School
Turnaround AmeriCorps from manufacturers of tobacco products, firearms, or alcoholic
beverages. The Parties commit to working together to develop a plan to secure this non-
Federal funding.
(G) The Parties will collaboratively develop a Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
that will describe the purpose and goals ofthe School Turnaround AmeriCorps and invite
applications for School Turnaround AmeriCorps grants. After awards are granted pursuant
to a grant review process detailed below, CNCS wiU award and manage School Turnaround
AmeriCorps grants in accordance with the rules and regulations governing all AmeriCorps
grants.
(H) Performance of the School Turnaround AmeriCorps grants shall be performed by
individuals called "School Turnaround AmeriCorps Members" and they shall be members
of AmeriCorps and shall act in conformance with, and abide by, the AmeriCorps rules and
procedures established by law and regulation.
(I) School Turnaround AmeriCorps Grantees will measure and report on their performance to
CNCS. CNCS will share this performance reporting information with ED.
3.0 Authorities
(A) Legal authority to enter into this IAA includes:
(1) The Department of Education Organization Act (DEOA), Pub. L. No. 96-88, as amended
(20 u.s.c. § 3475).
(2) The National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NCSA), Pub. L. No. 101-610, as
amended; (in particular, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1257l(b), 12611-12626, 12651b(g)(10)(B), and
12651 g(b)).
(B) Other relevant authorities:
(1) The NCSA, generally
(2) AmeriCorps Regulations, 45 CFR Chapter XXV
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(3) AmeriCorps Grant Provisions for the relevant Program year (the Provisions for Year I
are attached hereto as Exhibit I)
(4) The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, § 1003(g) ofTitle I
(5) The School Improvement Grants Final Requirements, 75 FR 66363 (Oct. 28,201 0)
4.0 Definitions
(A)AmeriCorps: A program ofCNCS that makes grants to national service programs that arc
focused on addressing unmet community needs. AmeriCorps was created pursuant to and is
governed by 42 U.S.C. §12571 et seq.
(B) Grant Application and Review Process (GARP): GARP refers to CNCS's comprehensive
process that commences with NOFO development and publication, includes outreach, application
submission, and review ofapplications, and concludes with making and announcing funding
decisions.
(C) Grant: An award of financial assistance made to an applicant and governed by the grant
agreement, the AmeriCorps Grant Provisions, the AmeriCorps Regulations and the NCSA.
(D) Grantee: The recipient of a School Turnaround AmeriCorps grant. Grantees agree to abide
by all rules, regulations, and laws applicable to AmeriCorps national service programs.
(E) Member: An individual serving as a member of the School Turnaround AmeriCorps.
Members must meet the eligibility requirements for AmeriCorps members and are eligible to
receive all benefits available to AmeriCorps members for which they qualify.
(F) Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (NOFO): A document developed jointly by the
Parties to notify the public of the opportunity offunding for the School Turnaround
AmeriCorps that describes the purpose of the School Turnaround AmeriCorps, and
establishes the process and criteria for awarding School Turnaround AmeriCorps grants.
(G)Performance Measures: Performance measurement mctrics adopted by CNCS. The
Performance Measures that may be selected by Grantees are attached hereto as Exhibit 2.
(H)School Turnaround AmeriCorps: An AmeriCorps program designed and funded by ED and
CNCS, and administered by CNCS.
5.0 Responsibilities
(A)CNCS will:
(I) Collaborate with ED to develop a NOFO that includes agreed-upon selection criteria
and programmatic objectives;
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(2) Conduct GARP for the School Turnaround AmeriCorps;
(3) Publish the NOFO for each program year:
(4) Provide staff to review applications;
(5) Collect Partnership Agreements (as described in the NOFO) from Grantees upon
request by ED and submit them to ED for its review;
(6) Coordinate with ED to notify applicants, members of the legislature, and other relevant
stakeholders ofthe results of the competition;
(7) Comply with Paragraph 13.0 in all communications with potential applicants,
applicants, members ofthe legislature, and other relevant stakeholders;
(8) Award Grants no later than August 1 in the first year of the program, and no later than
July I in the second and third years ofthe program;
(9) Provide technical assistance to Grantees;
(IO) Oversee and monitor Grantees to ensure compliance with the NOFO, the terms of the
Grants, and all applicable rules, regulations and laws;
(11) Assess the performance ofGrantees, in collaboration with ED;
(12) Provide a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to Members that qualify;
(13) Lead the fundraising efTorts described in Section 2.0(E) of the IAA; and
(14) Share data (including but not limited to school-level, student-level, and national service
member-level) that is readily available to it and relevant to a national evaluation ofthe
School Turnaround AmeriCorps. Data sharing will include short-term and long-term
outcomes ofschool and student performance in the schools served by a School
Turnaround AmeriCorps Grantee and the matched comparison group ofschools
involved in ED's school turnaround programs but not served by a School Turnaround
AmeriCorps Grantee.
(B) ED will:
(I) Coordinate '"'·itb CNCS to develop a NOFO that includes agreed-upon selection criteria
and programmatic objectives;
(2) Publicize the NOFO to encourage potential Grantees to apply;
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(3) Identify potential external peer reviewers;
(4) Provide staff to review applications;
(5) Review and assess any Partnership Agreements collected from Grantees by CNCS and
communicate results ofthat review to CNCS in a timely manner;
(6) Post results ofthe competition on the ED website;
(7) Coordinate with CNCS to notify applicants, members ofthe legislature, and other
relevant stakeholders of the results of the competition;
(8) Comply with Paragraph 13.0 in all communications with potential applicants, applicants,
members ofthe legislature, and other relevant stakeholders;
(9) Assess the performance ofSchool Turnaround AmeriCorps Grantees, in collaboration
with CNCS, and provide CNCS with any relevant analysis ofSchool Turnaround
AmeriCorps Grantees' performance;
(1 0) Provide timely responses to CNCS 's requests for approval of potential donors; and,
(11) Provide technical assistance to School Turnaround AmeriCorps Grantees; and
(12) Share data (including, but not limited to, school-level, student-level, and national service
member-level) that is readily available to it and relevant to a national evaluation of the
School Turnaround AmeriCorps. Data sharing will include short-term and long-term
outcomes ofschool and student performance in the schools served by a School
Turnaround AmeriCorps Grantee and the matched comparison group ofschools involved
in ED's school turnaround programs but not served by a Schoo) Turnaround AmeriCorps
Grantee.
6.0 Grant Application and Review Process
(A) CNCS will develop and administer the GARP consistent with the provisions of this
Paragraph ofthe IAA, and with CNCS's policies governing GARP.
(B) The Parties will jointly develop a GARP timeline for each year ofthe program.
(C) CNCS and ED will have responsibility for reviewing applications and making funding
decisions as outlined in Exhibit 3.
(D) Awards will be made by August I for the first year of the program and by July 1 for the
second and third years ofthe program.
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(E) C~CS and ED will make continuation funding detem1inations based on the tenns set forth_in
the NOFO and on the Grantees' performance.
7.0 Transfer of Funds
(A) Year 1: As soon as is practicable after the signing of this IAA by both Parties and before the
publication of the NOFO, ED will obligate and provide $2,500,000 to CNCS via the
Department of Treasury's Intra-governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) process to the
Agency Location Code (ALC) specified by CNCS.
(B) Year 2: Subject to the availability offunds, ED will obligate and provide $2,500,000 to
CNCS for the FY 2014 program year no later than October 31, 2013 or a date mutually
agreed upon by the Parties.
(C) Year 3: Subject to the availability offunds, ED will obligate and provide $2,500,000 to
CNCS for the FY 2015 program year no later than October 31, 2014 or a date mutually
agreed upon by the Parties.
(D)Required Fields for IPAC Transactions.
(1) ALC Transaction Contact (Contracting Officer Representation (COR)/Point Of
Contact) and Financial POC
(2) Contact Phone and email address
(3) Purchase Order Nwnber (and IAA number, ifdifferent)
(4) Invoice Nwnber
(5) Sender's Treasury Account Symbol
(6) Receiver's Department Code
(7) Sender's Obligating Document Number
(8) Sender's SGL Transaction
(9) Transaction Description field should identify if advance or disbursement
(10) Appropriation accounting data
(11) Associated dollar amounts
8.0 Performance Measurement
(A) Grantees must measure and report to CNCS on their performance on an annual basis.
(B) Grantees must select Performance Measures from the list attached as Exhibit 2 and have their
selection approved in advance by CNCS.
(C) Performance Measures may vary from Grantee to Grantee.
(D) CNCS will collect and report on Grantee Performance Measures.
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(E) CNCS will share the coJiected Performance Measures with ED within 90 days of receipt of
the information.
9.0 Modifications
(A) Any amendment or modification to this IAA must be signed by both Parties and be in
writing. Upon execution, any mutually agreed upon amendment or modification shall
constitute an integral part ofthis lAA.
(B) The Parties may revise the amounts listed in Section 7.0 ofthis JAA as a result of changes in
the availability of funds, and may adjust those amounts to reflect funding priorities or needs.
(C) Either Party may change the personnel designated in Paragraph 11.0 ofthis IAA unilaterally,
but shall provide written notice to the other Party within thi11y (30) days.
10.0 Duration and Termination
(A)This IAA shall be for three (3) years, with the Parties having the option to extend the IAA by
mutual written consent.
(B) Either Party may terminate this IAA for any reason by giving the other Party written notice
no later than 90 days prior to the publication ofthe NOFO.
(C) Termination by either Party, with at least 30 days• notice, shall be prospective only.
11.0 Agency Representatives
(A)CNCS's designated Agency Representative for this IAA is Rosa Moreno-Mahoney,
202.606.7556, rmmahoney@cns.gov.
(B) ED's designated Agency Representative for this IAA is Carlas McCauley, 202.260.0824,
carlas.mccauley@ed.gov.
12.0 Disputes
Nothing in this IAA is intended to conflict with the legal authorities of either Party or Federal
law. Should disagreement arise as to the interpretation ofthe provisions ofthis IAA that cannot
be resolved between C)ICS and ED, the area(s) ofdisagreement will be documented in writing
by program staffat each agency and presented to the Office of General Counsel at CNCS and the
Office of the General Counsel at ED for appropriate resolution. Ifthe Parties cannot reach
settlement at this level, then they will raise the disagreement to the next level in accordance with
each agency's procedures for final resolution.
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13.0 Publicity
The Parties agree to:
(A) Jointly develop and comply with public affairs guidance that shall include the following
guiding principles;
(B) Develop unified communications materials and efforts that emphasize the cooperation
between ED and CNCS;
(C) Refer to this joint program in all communications (written, electronic, or otherwise) by its
complete official title, "School Turnaround AmeriCorps";
(D) Seek to maximize the opportunities to highlight School Turnaround AmeriCorps through ED
and CNCS activities, publicity and publications; and
(E) Comply with the jointly developed public affairs guidance when making any public
statements or other disclosures arising from or related to this IAA to any third party and,
where practicable, subject all public statements and other disclosures arising from or related
to this lAA to review by both Parties prior to approval and/or release.
AGREED and ACCEPTED BY:
For the Department of Education:
Deb rah S. DehsJe
U.S. Department ofEducation
Assistant Secretary, Office
of Elemenyrry and Secondary Education
Date: :;l.f;<2./f :1,~ I
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EXHIBIT 1-AmeriCorps Grant Provisions
The 2012-2013 grant provisions are online and can be found at this website:
http://www.americoms.gov/for organizations/manage/index.asp
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EXHIBIT 2- Performance Measures
SCHOOL TliRNAROlfNl) A;1F:IUCORPS PRIOI~IT' MEASURES
ED2: Number ofstudents that completed participation in CNCS-supported K-12
education programs
ED4A: Number ofdisadvantaged youth/mentor matches that were sustained by the
CNCS-supported program for at least the required time period
EDS: Number ofstudents with improved academic performance in literacy and/or math
ED6: Number ofstudents that improved their school attendance over the course of the
CNCS-supported program's involvement with the student
ED27: Number ofstudents in grades K-12 that participated in the mentoring or tutoring or
other education program, including CNCS-supported service learning, who demonstrated
improved academic engagement
SCBOOL Tlli{N:ROllNI) AMF.RICORPS C01PLEMENTARY MEASl.IRF.S
ED1: Number ofstudents who start in a CNCS-supported education program
ED3A: Number ofdisadvantaged youth/mentor matches that are commenced by CNCS-
supported programs
ED7: Number of students with no or decreased disciplinary referrals and suspensions over
the course ofthe CNCS-supported programs' involvement
ED9: Number of students graduating from high school on time with a diploma
ED10: Number of students entering post-secondary institutions
SIG 1: Number of minutes within the school year
SIG 2: Number and percentage ofstudents completing advanced coursework (e.g.,
AP/IB), early-college high schools, or dual enrolLment classes
SIG 3: Dropout rate
SIG 4: Truants
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EXHIBIT 3-Agreed Upon Process for Application Review and Grant Award Decision Making
Step 1. Compliance Review
CNCS, in collaboration with ED, will establish compliance criteria and a compliance review
form to be used in evaluating applicants' compliance with eligibility, submission date and time,
basic program requirements, completeness, and other published requirements specified in the
NOFO. This fonn will be used by the Compliance Committee to assess whether each application
is compliant. CNCS will notify ED ofthe compliance decisions. The Compliance Review will
be handled in the manner required by CNCS policy OGP0-2009-01-2013-3, Application
Deadlines and Late Submissions. The compliance criteria and compliance review form will be
consistent 'ith CNCS policy OGP0-2009-01-2013-3.
Step 2. Blended Review
During the Blended Review, panels comprised of CNCS staff, ED staff and expert external
reviewers assess applications. The panels assess the quality of each application against the
selection criteria published in the NOFO. Each reviewer individually assesses each application,
focusing on the quality of the applicant's response in each section ofthe application. They then
assign a rating and score and complete an overall appraisal. After individual reviews are
complete, the panels convene by teleconference to discuss each application. The purpose of the
discussions is to ensure a common understanding ofthe application and discuss significant
strengths and weakness ofthe applications. The average of the reviewers' scores (mean) will be
used to compute the final score.
Step 3. Analysis of Blended Review Results
A group ofED staffand CNCS staffwill analyze the results and factor in strategic considerations
identified in the NOFO to develop a recommendation for which applications should advance to
the applicant clarification phase. As part ofthis step, the group will prepare a draft
recommendation package identifying the applicants selected to advance to clarification.
Step 4. Pre-Decision Meeting
A small number of CNCS staffand ED staff meet with the ChiefExecutive Officer of CNCS
(CEO), ED's Assistant Secretary and/or her designees and CNCS executive level staffto present
the recommendations developed in Step 3. Participants in the meeting will consider and discuss
the recommendation package. The CEO ofCNCS and the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or
Assistant Secretary will decide which ofthe recommended applicants will advance to
clarification.
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Step 5. Analysis ofClarification & OGM Results
The same ED and CNCS staff who participated in Step 3 (or the approved substitute) will
analyze the information obtained from applicants through the clarification process and apply the
strategic considerations identified in the NOFO to develop a recommendation for which
applicants should be funded. As part of this step, the group will consider relevant information
about the applicants provided by the CNCS Office of Grants Management (OGM) related to the
financial management ofan AmeriCorps grant. After consideration ofthe information obtained
through clarification and from OGM, the staff will prepare a draft recommendation package
identifying the applicants recommended for funding.
Step 6. Discussion Meeting
The same ED and CNCS staffwho participated in Step 4 (or the approved substitute) meet again
with the CEO, ED's Assistant Secretary and/or her designees, and CNCS executive level staff to
discuss the funding recommendations developed in Step 5. Participants in the meeting will
consider and discuss the recommendation package.
Step 7. Notification and Discussion ofProposed Funding Decisions
CNCS will communicate the CEO's proposed funding decisions to ED. CNCS will provide ED
with a rationale and justification for any proposed decisions that differ from the funding
recommendations discussed in Step 6. In the event that ED disagrees with the proposed funding
decisions, the Secretary may contact the CEO to discuss the proposed final decisions.
Step 8. CEO Decisions
The CEO will consider the recoron1endation package as well as the information obtained through
the Steps 6 and 7 meetings and make final decisions about what applicants should receive grants.
Step 9. Certification
CNCS will certify the results of the review process and award the grants.
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Insurance
CLASSifJ~TION
Unem loyment
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
CORRESPONDENCE SYMSOL
ADVISORY SYSTEM OUI-DL
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DATE
Washington, D.C. 2D210
April 1 9, 2012
ADVISORY: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM LETTER NO. 16-1 2
TO: STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
FROM: JANEOATES ~ ()-~-:~
Assistant Secretary U ·
SUBJECT: Payment ofUnemployment Compensation to Individuals who are Volunteering
1. Purpose. To strongly encourage states to both promote volunteerism in their communities,
and interpret state law to not disqualify individuals from receipt ofUnemployment
Compensation (UC) as a result ofvolunteer activities.
2. References.
• Sections 3304 and 3306 ofthe Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA);
• Title III ofthe Social Security Act (SSA);
• Section 134 ofthe Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA);
• Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA);
• 20 CFR Part 604;
• Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 12-09, Joint Guidance for States
Seeking to Implement Subsidized Work-Based Training Programs for Unemployed
Workers; and
• Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 787, "The Secretary's Decision in
the South Dakota Conformity Hearing Held July 7, 1964, Disqualification for Base-
Period Wages of$6,000 or Over."
3. Background. The Department ofLabor (Department) has encouraged America's
unemployed workers to pursue education and training opportunities as the economy recovers
to improve their skills and better position themselves for employment opportunities in the
future. In TEGL No. 12-09, the Department previously issued guidance to states seeking to
implement subsidized work-based training programs for unemployed workers. In this UIPL,
the Department recognizes that volunteering for governmental entities and non-profit
organizations can help unemployed workers develop and maintain skills, expand their
network of contacts, and enhance their resumes, all while making a positive impact on their
communities.
Volunteerism can be a viable and successful strategy that supports reemployment and does
not need to interfere with UC recipients' responsibilities to be able and available for work
and actively seeking work. Therefore, the Department encourages states: to promote
volunteering by individuals receiving UC; to review their current "able and available" and
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"work search" requirements; and implement policies that allow individuals to volunteer
consistent with the requirements ofFederallaw without making them ineligible for UC.
This UIPL provides guidance for states regarding volunteerism and also reminds states of
some limitations in Federal law.
4. Application ofAble and Available and Work Search Requirements. Federal regulations
at 20 CFR part 604 require state UC law to provide that individuals must be able to work and
available for work (A&A) to be eligible for UC. Generally speaking, a state may consider an
individual available for work if he or she is "available for all work for all or a portion ofthe
week claimed, provided that any limitation placed by the individual on his or her availability
does not constitute a withdrawal from the labor market." 20 CFR 604.4(a). This regulation
provides some latitude to states in deciding whether participation in certain activities would
remove the individual from the labor market. For example, a state may provide that an
individual remains available for work while performing volunteer activities provided the
individual is willing to stop the volunteer activity upon an offer of suitable work.
Additionally, states may, consistent with this regulation, determine an individual to be
available for work while performing a volunteer activity when the individual's volunteer
activity does not occur when the individual would customarily work or is otherwise of a
sufficiently limited nature that it "does not constitute a withdrawal from the labor market."
States have significant flexibility in establishing work search requirements. For example,
states may limit the number ofhours an individual may volunteer to ensure sufficient time to
actively seek work. In addition, states may establish different work search requirements that
apply to individuals who volunteer. Individuals who volunteer should, of course, continue a
rigorous search for work that satisfies the requirements ofthe state against which they are
claiming benefits.
Note that the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of2012 (Public Law 112-96),
enacted on February 22,2012, added a new paragraph (12) to section 303(a), SSA, to require
that a state's law, as a condition ofUC administrative grants, provide that "as a condition of
eligibility for regular compensation for any week, a claimant must be able to work, available
to work, and actively seeking work." The Department will be issuing guidance in the near
future to address this new statutory requirement.
5. Prohibition on Conditioning UC Eligibility on Volunteer Work. Section 3304(a)(4)
FUTA requires, as a condition for employers in a state to receive credit against the Federal
tax, that state law provide that "all money withdrawn from the unemployment fund ofthe
State shall be used solely in the payment of unemployment compensation, exclusive of
expenses of administration, and for refunds of sums erroneously paid into such fund ...."
Section 303(a)(5) SSA provides a similar requirement as a condition for a state to receive
administrative grants. Section 3306(h), FUTA, defines compensation as "cash benefits
payable to individuals with respect to their unemployment."
The Secretary of Labor's decision, published in UIPL No. 787, in the 1964 conformity case
involving South Dakota interpreted these sections to mean UC eligibility must be based on
the "fact or cause" ofunemployment:
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[I]t was the intent of Congress to create a social insurance system under which
entitlement to benefits was a matter ofright on the part ofthose who became
involuntarily unemployed because of lack ofwork, e.g., laid off from work or
otherwise unemployed through no fault oftheir own, and who are able to work
and available for work, but who are unable to find suitable work. In short, what
Congress was prescribing was wage insurance for the relief ofthe unemployed, to
compensate for wage loss resulting from unemployment due to lack ofwork,
without regard to any ... criteria of entitlement having no reasonable relationship
to "unemployment."
Thus, state law must provide that eligibility for UC must only be based on factors related to
unemployment. Therefore, while volunteer activities may be beneficial to both the
unemployed workers and the community in which they live, states may not condition
payment (or non-payment) ofUC based on the individual performing volunteer activities,
since those activities are unrelated to the fact or cause ofthe unemployment.
6. Limitations on Use ofUC Administrative Funds for Activities Involving Volunteering.
Section 303(a)(8), SSA, requires, as a condition for the receipt of grants for the
administration ofthe state UC law, that all moneys received for the administration ofthe
state law be expended "solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the
Secretary ofLabor for the proper and efficient administration of such State law." States may
use UC administrative grants to inform claimants oftheir UC rights, including how their UC
eligibility may be affected by volunteering. But because activities related to providing
detailed information on volunteer opportunities or helping claimants locate volunteer
opportunities are not necessary for the proper and efficient administration ofthe state UC
law, UC administrative grants may not be used to pay the costs associated with performing
these activities. However, it is important to note that funds made available to states under
WIA, could be used to provide information to individuals about volunteer opportunities
under WIA Section 134(d)(2)(B).
7. Worker Protections Related to Volunteer Activities. States choosing to promote
volunteerism should know that individuals who freely volunteer their services to
governmental entities and non-profit organizations are not considered to be employees
subject to the minimum wage and overtime requirements ofthe FLSA if certain conditions
are met. The work must be for civic, charitable or humanitarian reasons, without promise,
expectation or receipt of compensation for services rendered. A volunteer for a public
agency but not a non-profit organization can be paid expenses, reasonable benefits or a
nominal fee to perform such services. The services must be offered freely and without
pressure or coercion, direct or implied, from an employer or agency. Finally, the person
must not be otherwise employed by the same employer to perform the same type of services
as those for which the individual proposes to volunteer.
8. Volunteering Resources. The Administration has supported volunteering activities as a way
for individuals to participate in our nation's recovery and renewal by serving their
communities. Information about the Administration's focus on volunteering and community
service may found on the United We Serve Web site at www.serve.gov.
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9. Action Regnested. Administrators are requested to do the following:
• Provide this guidance to the appropriate staff;
• Review UC policies and procedures and consider implementing policies that support
promoting volunteering as a reemployment strategy;
• Coordinate policies related to volunteerism across UC and appropriate workforce
programs such as the Employment Service and WIA.
10. Inquiries. Questions should be directed to the appropriate Regional Office.
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Fact Sheet
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) improves lives,
strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and
volunteering. As the nation's largest grant maker in support of service and volunteering,
CNCS engages more than five million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service
to their communities each year through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, the Volunteer
Generation Fund, the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), and other programs, and leads
President Obama’s call to service initiative, United We Serve. Participants in CNCS
programs and the community volunteers they help coordinate enable tens of thousands
of national and local nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, schools, and municipal
agencies to solve tough problems and meet local needs in education, health, the
environment, veterans, economic opportunity, and other critical areas.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps provides opportunities for among many other activities. AmeriCorps
80,000 Americans each year to give members in recent years have stepped up
intensive service to their communities their role in recruiting, training, and
and country through three programs: managing volunteers of all ages and
AmeriCorps State and National, backgrounds, supporting 4 million
AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps community volunteers in 2012 alone. In
NCCC (National Civilian Community exchange for a year of full-time service,
Corps). AmeriCorps members tutor and members earn a Segal AmeriCorps
mentor youth, build affordable housing, Education Award that can be used to pay
assist veterans and military families, for college or graduate school, or to pay
provide health services, run after-school back qualified student loans. Since 1994,
programs, help communities respond to more than 820,000 Americans have given
disasters, and build the capacity of non- 1 billion hours of service through
profit groups to become self-sustaining, AmeriCorps.
Senior Corps
Each year Senior Corps taps the skills,
talents, and experience of more than
360,000 Americans age 55 and older to
meet a wide range of community
challenges through three programs:
RSVP, the Foster Grandparent Program,
and the Senior Companion Program.
RSVP volunteers help local police depart
ments conduct safety patrols, participate
in environmental projects, provide
intensive educational services to children
and adults, and respond to natural
disasters, among many other activities.
Foster Grandparents serve one-on-one as
tutors and mentors to young people with
special needs. Senior Companions help
homebound seniors and other adults
maintain independence in their own homes.
■ Nation’s largest grant-
maker for service and
volunteering
■ Participants serve at
70,000 service locations
■ Engages nearly 5 million
Americans in service
each year
• More than 360,000
Senior Corps volunteers
• 80,000 AmeriCorps
members
■ Leverages more than
$800 million in outside
funding and donations
each year
■ Leads President’s United
We Serve initiative
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Washington, DC 20525
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Social Innovation Fund
The Social Innovation Fund represents a new
approach by the federal government to address urgent
national challenges. Its function is to mobilize public
and private resources to grow the impact of promising,
innovative community-based solutions that have
evidence of compelling results in three areas of priority
need: economic opportunity, healthy futures and
youth development. In its first three competitions,
the Social Innovation Fund has awarded $137 million
to 20 intermediary grantmakers, which have made
subgrants to nearly 200 subgrantees in 34 states and
the District of Columbia, reaching over 174,000
individuals and will continue to impact tens of
thousands more. With its unique public-private
partnership structure, the Social Innovation Fund has
already generated commitments of $360 million in
non-federal resources.
Other Programs and Initiatives
■ The Volunteer Generation Fund strengthens the
nation’s civic infrastructure by helping nonprofits
recruit, manage, and support more volunteers.
■ The September 11th National Day of
Service and Remembrance offers Americans the
opportunity to honor victims, survivors, and those
who rose up in service on September 11, 2001
through charitable service.
■ The King Day of Service supports community
organizations in their efforts to engage local
citizens in service on the Martin Luther King, Jr.
federal holiday.
■ The President's Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll honors colleges and
universities for the commitment of their
students, faculty, and staff to community service.
■ The National Service Knowledge Network
provides training and resources to national service
programs and nonprofits seeking to expand their
capacity and impact.
■ The CNCS annual Volunteering and Civic Life
in America report provides comprehensive data to
state and local leaders to help them expand the
impact of service.
Service as a Solution
President Barack Obama is deeply committed to
advancing the role of service in addressing our
national challenges and in making service part of the
life of every American. With bipartisan Congressional
support, the President has worked with CNCS to
focus service on pressing social problems; expand
opportunities for more Americans of all ages and
backgrounds to serve; build the capacity of individuals,
nonprofits, and communities; and embrace social
innovation. The agency’s 2011-2015 Strategic Plan
builds on the strong foundation of national service
that has developed over the past four decades and the
vision set forth in the bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy
Serve America Act of 2009. The plan recognizes that
national service will have its greatest impact if we
target resources on a core set of critical problems and
carefully measure our progress. It prioritizes six major
challenges facing communities: disaster services,
economic opportunity, education, environmental
stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and
military families. It also provides strategies and
performance measures which determine how we will
evaluate our success over the coming years.
United We Serve
In June 2009, CNCS joined with the White House
to launch United We Serve, a challenge to all
Americans to engage in sustained, meaningful
community service to help in our nation's renewal
and recovery. Americans have responded
enthusiastically to the President's call, joining with
friends and neighbors to replenish food banks,
support veterans and military families, restore public
lands, and more. The Administration has worked
with technology leaders to develop a volunteer
matching tool for the Serve.gov website featuring
more than 250,000 volunteer opportunities, and
teamed up with top sports stars and celebrities to
promote volunteer service.
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Fact Sheet

Annual Statistical
Highlights
■ Engages more than
75,000 members
annually
■ Members serve at
15,000 locations
across the country
■ Mobilizes 4 million
volunteers annually
■ Leverages $480 million
in outside funding and
donations each year
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AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps engages more than 75,000 men and women in intensive service each year
at more than 15,000 locations including nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and
community and faith-based groups across the country. AmeriCorps members help
communities tackle pressing problems while mobilizing millions of volunteers for the
organizations they serve. Members gain valuable professional, educational, and life benefits,
and the experience has a lasting impact on the members and the communities they serve.
AmeriCorps consists of three main programs: AmeriCorps State and National, whose
members serve with national and local nonprofit and community groups; AmeriCorps
VISTA, through which members serve full time fighting poverty; and AmeriCorps NCCC
(National Civilian Community Corps), a team-based residential program for young adults
18-24 who carry out projects in public safety, the environment, youth development, and
disaster relief and preparedness.
Focus on Impact
The bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy Serve
America Act focused AmeriCorps’ efforts in
six key areas: disaster services, economic
opportunity, education, environmental
stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans
and military families. To strengthen
accountability, AmeriCorps programs are
required to demonstrate their impact using
standard performance measures.
AmeriCorps members make our communities
safer, stronger, healthier, and improve the
lives of tens of millions of our most
vulnerable citizens. AmeriCorps’ impacts
are proven and measurable.
Disaster services: In response to the
tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri on
May 22nd, 2011, AmeriCorps teams
organized a large-scale volunteer response
center that recruited and supervised more
than 75,000 volunteers. Through the
AmeriCorps-led operation, unaffiliated
volunteers contributed more than 579,000
hours of service. These hours completely
defrayed over $17.7 million in emergency
match dollars owed by the City of Joplin to
the federal government at the conclusion
of the response.
Economic opportunity: VISTA,
AmeriCorps’ poverty-fighting program,
engages more than 8,000 members each
year in fighting poverty by creating
businesses, expanding access to technology,
recruiting volunteers to teach literacy, and
strengthening antipoverty groups.
Education: AmeriCorps places thousands
of teachers, tutors, and mentors into low-
performing schools, helping students
succeed in school and gain skills necessary
to get 21st century jobs.
Environmental stewardship: Members
build trails, restore parks, protect water
sheds, run recycling programs, and
promote energy efficiency, weatherization,
and clean energy.

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Healthy futures: AmeriCorps members save lives Veterans and military families: AmeriCorps supports
through HIV/AIDS education and outreach, drug and the military community by engaging veterans in service,
alcohol prevention training, and connecting poor helping veterans readjust to civilian life, and providing
families to health clinics and services. support to military families.
Strengthening Nonprofits and the
Volunteer Sector
Strengthening nonprofits: AmeriCorps members help
faith-based and community groups expand services,
build capacity, raise funds, develop new partnerships,
and create innovative, sustainable programs.
Encouraging competition and local control:
AmeriCorps pushes funding and decision-making to the
state and local level. Most grantees are chosen by
bipartisan state commissions appointed by the governor.
Advancing social innovation: AmeriCorps invests in
entrepreneurial organizations that have been recognized
for their innovative approaches to citizen problem-solving
such as Teach for America, City Year, YouthBuild,
JumpStart, Citizen Schools, and Experience Corps.
Expanding Educational Opportunity and
Building Future Leaders
Expanding educational opportunity: In exchange for
a year of full-time service, AmeriCorps members earn a
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award (equal to the
maximum Pell Grant) that helps pay for college or pay
back student loans. AmeriCorps members have earned
more than $2.4 billion in these awards since 1994.
Preparing the 21st Century Workforce: AmeriCorps
is a pathway to economic opportunity that provides
members with valuable skills specific to their service
(construction, teaching, weatherization, etc.) as well as
general skills of leadership and problem-solving that all
employers are looking for.
Creating future leaders: AmeriCorps members gain
new and useful skills, advance their education, and
become more connected to their communities. A
longitudinal study has shown that AmeriCorps alumni
are more likely to be civically engaged, to go into public
service careers—such as teaching, public safety, social
work, and military service—and to volunteer in their
communities.
Leveraging a Powerful Return
on the Investment
Public private partnerships: AmeriCorps leverages
substantial private investment—more than $480 million
in non-CNCS funds each year from businesses,
foundations, and other sources. AmeriCorps has cut
costs and become more efficient by supporting more
members with fewer federal dollars.
Mobilizing volunteers: AmeriCorps is a powerful
catalyst and force-multiplier for community volunteering.
Last year AmeriCorps members recruited, trained, and
supervised more than 4 million community volunteers
for the organizations they serve.
AmeriCorps Fast Facts
800,000 Number of people who have served as AmeriCorps members since 1994.
1 billion Total number of hours served by AmeriCorps members since 1994.
5.2 million Number of disadvantaged youth tutored, mentored, or served by AmeriCorps members
in fiscal 2011.
4 million Number of community volunteers managed or mobilized by AmeriCorps members in fiscal 2011.
$480 million Value of cash and in-kind donations leveraged by AmeriCorps members in fiscal 2010.
15,000 Number of AmeriCorps service locations in 2012.
$2.4 billion Total amount of Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards earned by AmeriCorps members since 1994.
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AmeriCorps NCCC
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Fact Sheet
AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based
residential service program for individuals ages 18-24. NCCC members are organized
into 10-12 member teams and serve in local communities in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
The mission of AmeriCorps NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders
through team-based national and community service.
Based out of five regional campuses in Maryland, Mississippi, Iowa, Colorado, and
California, teams of members complete 6-8 week intensive national service, doing projects
proposed by community sponsors who identify needs within their communities and request
NCCC assistance.
Project sponsors include national, community and faith-based nonprofit organizations;
municipal and state governments; federal agencies and programs; city, state, and national
parks; Native American communities; and schools throughout the United States.
Natural and Other Disasters
Natural and Other Disaster projects address
the needs of communities affected by
floods, hurricanes, wildfires and other
disasters. The focus is on preparedness,
mitigation, response and recovery projects.
Infrastructure Improvement
Infrastructure Improvement projects
contribute to the safety and well-being of
community members through repairing and
building structures. In addition, projects will
improve basic facilities and services needed
for the functioning of the community.
Environmental Stewardship
and Conservation
In the tradition of the Civilian Conservation
Corps of the 1930s, Environmental
Stewardship and Conservation projects help
preserve and enhance a community’s natural
resources.
NCCC Team Service Areas
Annual Statistical
Highlights*
■ Constructed, renovated,
or weatherized 1,000
homes
■ Served 125,000 meals,
including 85,000
meals in disaster areas
■ Supported 30,000
students in out of
school programs
■ Planted 438,000 trees
and native plants
■ Restored 17 miles of
streams and rivers
■ Assisted 7,436,692 people in
disaster areas
■ Recruited or coordinated 659,233
volunteers
■ Constructed or restored 8,738
miles of trail
■ Removed 21,532 tons of debris or
vegetation
Since 2000, AmeriCorps NCCC
teams have:
*These reflect the accomplishments of 1,200 NCCC
members during the 1.5 million hours they served in
FY 2011 (Oct 1 – Sept 30, 2011)

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February 2012
Energy Conservation
Energy Conservation projects promote energy efficient
practices with organizations, communities, families, or
individuals.
Urban and Rural Development
Urban and Rural Development projects address the
special needs of communities in ways that improve the
quality of life for citizens and the success of whole
communities.
Become an AmeriCorps NCCC Member
AmeriCorps NCCC is open to all U.S. citizens or
lawful permanent residents ages 18-24. NCCC is the
experience of a lifetime! Member benefits include
room and board, living allowance, health benefits,
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of $5,500*,
student loan deferment, training, uniforms and
gear. To apply to be a member: please visit
americorps.gov/nccc for more information
Become an AmeriCorps NCCC Sponsor
NCCC provides a team of approximately 10
members who arrive with their own transportation,
are supervised by a team leader, to help accomplish
project goals and objectives defined by the sponsor.
There is no direct charge or match required to receive
a NCCC team, but sponsoring organizations are
asked to provide: lodging, assistance with food costs,
on-site technical supervision, materials and tools, and
support for service learning. To apply to be a project
sponsor, please visit americorps.gov/nccc for more
information.
Corporation for National and
Community Service
AmeriCorps NCCC, was implemented by the federal
government in 1994, and is a program of the
Corporation for National and Community Service,
the federal agency that improves lives, strengthens
communities, and fosters civic engagement through
service and volunteering.
*The Segal AmeriCorps Education Award will be equal to the amount
of the Pell Grant. Check AmeriCorps.gov for updated amount.

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Fact Sheet

AmeriCorps VISTA

AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) taps the skills,
talents, and passion of more than 8,000 Americans annually to
support community efforts to overcome poverty. The program's nationwide
corps of VISTAs commits full-time for a year at nonprofit organizations or
local government agencies to build the capacity of these organizations
to carry out programs that tackle poverty. VISTAs recruit and manage
community volunteers, raise funds, and help manage projects. VISTAs
support programs that improve literacy, expand job opportunities, develop
financial assets, reduce homelessness, and improve health services. They
also support programs that increase housing opportunities, increase
economic opportunities for low-income veterans and military families,
and expand access to technology for those living in rural and urban areas
of poverty across America.
Core Principles of
AmeriCorps VISTA
Anti-Poverty Focus: AmeriCorps
VISTA supports community efforts to
overcome poverty. Any nonprofit
organization, educational institution, or
tribal or public agency with a project
explicitly designed to alleviate poverty
may sponsor a VISTA.
Community Empowerment:
AmeriCorps VISTA values the inherent
strengths and resources of the community.
VISTA expects project sponsors to
involve residents of the community in
planning, developing, and implementing
the VISTA project. This approach allows
low-income individuals the freedom to
speak for themselves in determining the
projects that suit their specific needs.
■ AmeriCorps VISTAs 5,958
■ Summer Associates 2,207
■ Hours served by VISTAs
12.6 million
■ VISTA projects 1,132
■ Value of cash and in-kind
resources raised $170.1 million
■ Annual Federal Funding
$94.81 million
AmeriCorps VISTA Statistical Highlights*
* Statistics are for fiscal year 2012
Annual Statistical
Highlights*
■ Community Volunteers
Recruited and Managed
by VISTAs
1.1 million
■ Hours Served by
Community Volunteers
11.7 million
■ Veterans and Military
Families served
115,000
■ Veterans and Military
Family Members Engaged
as Community Volunteers
12,610
■ Disadvantaged Youth
Receiving Services
2.5 million
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Capacity Building: AmeriCorps VISTA expands
the ability of sponsor organizations to fight poverty.
VISTAs strengthen and support organizations by
building infrastructure, expanding community
partnerships, securing long-term resources,
coordinating training for participants, and much
more. These capacity-building activities enable
organizations to provide better services to
low-income individuals and communities.
Sustainable Solutions: VISTAs serve as a short-
term resource to help sponsor organizations achieve
lasting solutions to poverty.
Become an AmeriCorps VISTA
AmeriCorps VISTA is open to U.S. citizens or lawful
permanent residents age 18 and older. VISTAs
choose from projects throughout the country, based
on their skills and interests, and serve full time for
one year with community-based organizations.
During their service, VISTAs receive a living
allowance, as well as health care, child care, training,
relocation expenses, and liability insurance. After a
successful year of service, VISTAs receive either a
$1,500 stipend or a Segal AmeriCorps Education
Award equal to the maximum amount of the
federal Pell Grant. The award can be used to pay for
educational expenses at qualified institutions of
higher education, or to pay back qualified student
loans. For VISTA service approved in fiscal year
2013, the education award is $5,550.*
Find out more at AmeriCorps.gov
Or call 800-942-2677
TTY 800-833-3722
Sponsor a Project
Any nonprofit organization or public agency
involved in alleviating poverty may partner with
AmeriCorps VISTA to develop a project and host
VISTAs. Potential sponsors must have the capacity
and commitment to recruit, train, supervise, and
support VISTAs.
View these additional resources at AmeriCorps.gov:
• Guide to Becoming a VISTA Sponsor
• VISTA 101: Understanding VISTA
Contact the local CNCS State Office
Or call 202-606-5000
TTY 202-565-2799
Email: vista@americorps.gov
Corporation for National and
Community Service
AmeriCorps VISTA is an anti-poverty program created
by the federal government in 1964. The first class of
VISTAs began serving in 1965. In 1993, VISTA
became part of AmeriCorps, a network of national
and community service programs that annually engage
more than 75,000 members in intensive service to
meet critical needs in disaster services, economic
opportunity, education, environmental stewardship,
healthy futures, and veterans and military families.
AmeriCorps is administered by the Corporation for
National and Community Service, the federal agency that
improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters
civic engagement through service and volunteering.
Each year CNCS engages more than five million
Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to
meet local needs through AmeriCorps, Senior Corps,
the Social Innovation Fund, and other programs,
and leads President Obama’s national call to service
initiative, United We Serve. For more information on
the Corporation, visit www.NationalService.gov.* Check AmeriCorps.gov for the annual updated amount.
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Fact Sheet

Senior Corps

Senior Corps taps the skills, talents, and experience of more than 362,000
Americans age 55 and over to meet a wide range of community
challenges through three programs — RSVP, the Foster Grandparent
Program, and the Senior Companion Program. RSVP volunteers recruit and
manage other volunteers, participate in environmental projects, mentor and
tutor children, and respond to natural disasters, among many other activities.
Foster Grandparents serve one-on-one as tutors and mentors to young
people with special needs. Senior Companions help frail seniors and other
adults maintain independence primarily in the clients’ own homes.
RSVP
Established in 1971 and now one of the
largest senior volunteer organizations in
the nation, RSVP engages more than
296,000 people age 55 and older in a
diverse range of volunteer activities.
Volunteers tutor children, renovate
homes, teach English to immigrants,
assist victims of natural disasters, provide
independent living services, recruit and
manage other volunteers, and serve their
communities in many other ways. RSVP
volunteers choose how, where, and
how often they want to serve, with
commitments ranging from a few hours
to 40 hours per week.
Eligibility: RSVP is open to all people
age 55 and over. Volunteers do not
receive monetary incentives, but sponsor
ing organizations may reimburse them
for some costs incurred during service,
including meals and transportation.
Annual RSVP Statistical Highlights*
■ Volunteers 320,600
■ Hours Served 47 million
■ Number of Projects 676
■ Children Served 82,590
■ Engaged 24,500 Veterans who
serve as RSVP volunteers
■ Frail Elderly Served 742,800
■ Non-Federal
Support $37.5 million
Annual Statistical
Highlights*
■ Volunteers Total
362,000
■ Hours Served
82 million
■ Frail Elderly Served
793,000
■ Children Served
298,000
■ Veterans Served
563,000
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Foster Grandparent Program
The Foster Grandparent Program (FGP), which
began in 1965, provides loving and experienced
tutors and mentors to children and youth with special
needs. Working one-on-one and serving between 15
and 40 hours a week, Foster Grandparents provide
support in schools, hospitals, drug treatment centers,
correctional institutions, and child care centers.
Among other activities, they review schoolwork,
reinforce values, teach parenting skills to young par
ents, and care for premature infants and children with
disabilities. Foster Grandparents often maintain an
ongoing, intensive relationship with the children and
youth served for a year or longer.
Eligibility: Volunteers must be 55 years of age or
over. Those who meet certain income guidelines
receive a small stipend. All FGP volunteers receive
accident and liability insurance and meals while on
duty, reimbursement for transportation, and
monthly training.
Senior Companion Program

The Senior Companion Program (SCP), which began
in 1974, helps frail seniors and other adults maintain
independence primarily in the clients’ own homes.
Senior Companions serve between 15 and 40 hours a
week and typically serve between two and four
clients. Among other activities, they assist with daily
living tasks, such as grocery shopping and bill paying;
provide friendship and companionship; alert doctors
and family members to potential problems, and pro
vide respite to family caregivers.
Eligibility: Volunteers must be 55 years of age or
over. Those who meet certain income guidelines
receive a small stipend. All SCP volunteers receive
accident and liability insurance and meals while on
duty, reimbursement for transportation, and
monthly training.
Annual FGP Statistical Highlights*
■ Hours Served 23.7 million
■ Young People Served 215,700
■ Engaged 1,000 Veterans who serve as Foster

Grandparents volunteers

■ Number of Children of Military

Families Served 3,038

■ Non-Federal Support $26 million
Annual SCP Statistical Highlights*
■ Hours Served 11.7 million
■ Clients Served 50,380
■ Caregivers Given Respite 6,900
■ Engaged 721 Veterans as Senior Companion

volunteers

■ Non-Federal Support $16.7 million
Corporation for National and Community Service

The three Senior Corps programs were created by the federal government in the mid-1960s and early 1970s. Since
1993, they have been administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency
that improves lives, strengthens communities and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering.
Each year CNCS engages more than five million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to meet local
needs through its Senior Corps and AmeriCorps programs, and leads President Obama’s Call to Service initiative,
United We Serve. For more information on CNCS, visit NationalService.gov.
*STATISTICS NOTE: Data from FY2012.
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NationalService.gov
Every year, communities across the nation suffer the effects of natural and
man-made disasters that disrupt the lives of millions of Americans. Disasters can
lead to human losses, social problems, economic harm, and environmental damage.
The very nature of a disaster leaves individuals and families with broken or stressed
support networks to assist with response and recovery.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency,
provides strong support, expertise, and trained and dedicated volunteers to help
communities to prepare for, mitigate, respond, and recover from natural and
man-made disasters. CNCS supports nonprofits, educational institutions, faith-based
organizations and other groups in engaging citizens in meeting economic, health,
social, and environmental needs caused by disasters. This includes a range of activities,
such as volunteer coordination, feeding operations, home repairs, environmental clean
up, needs assessments, client casework, and long-term recovery.
From forest fires and floods, to hurricanes and tornadoes, to terror attacks and oil
spills, participants in CNCS programs have provided critical support to millions of
Americans affected by disasters since 1994. Reflecting the agency's growing expertise
and commitment in disaster services, the CNCS board of directors made disaster
services one the agency's focus areas for its 2011-2015 strategic plan. These activities
cover the full range of disaster services from response, to long-term recovery,
preparedness, and mitigation.
National Service and Disaster Response
To increase coordination at the federal, state,
and local levels, CNCS has worked with the
Department of Homeland Security and
FEMA on the National Response Framework,
created a Disaster Coordinator Cadre of
specially trained staff available to go to disaster
zones to coordinate national service assets
and mission assignments with FEMA, and
signed a Memorandum of Understanding
with the National Voluntary Organizations
Active in Disaster to enable smarter, faster
cooperation with the group's members.
• Volunteer Coordination
• Shelter Operations
• Debris Removal
• Warehouse Management
• Installing Accessibility Improvements on
Homes and Shelters
• Case Management
• Disaster Recovery Center Support
• Volunteer Reception Center Support
• Long-Term Recovery Committee Support
• Volunteer Base Camp Setup and Operation
• Public Information Outreach
• Operations Center Setup and Support
• Special Needs Assistance
• Home Construction/Repair
• Public Facilities Renovation
• Call Center Support/Setup/Operations
• Needs Assessment
• Pet Shelter Operations
• Preparedness Education
Sample Disaster Project Activities
Coordination and Planning
“Among the many who
wear the name "hero"
in our book of golden
deeds performed here,
the AmeriCorps
volunteers will forever
have a place of honor
in our memory -
idealistic young people,
and seniors also, who
came here and lived in
Spartan conditions for
month after month, in
military tents, going
out day after day to
help the people of
South Mississippi pull
themselves out of the
debris and rebuild.”
Biloxi Sun-Herald,
Sept. 12, 2007

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