2015 Muskie Program Orientation - Corporation for National and Community Service
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5/15/2015 - Dave Premo, Corporation for National and Community Service
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2015 Muskie Program Orientation - Corporation for National and Community Service
- 1. National Service Works for America
- 2. Who We Are $850 million leveraged by partners 5 million Americans 70,000 locations
- 3. Our Focus Areas Disaster Services Economic Opportunity Education Environmental Stewardship Healthy Futures Veterans and Military Families
- 4. Our Programs
- 5. Our Programs
- 7. Our Programs Volunteer Generation Fund 19 states
- 8. Our Grantees
Notas do Editor
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you have questions, stories, or ideas to share, please email pressoffice@cns.gov.