A bill in the USA Congress, the Pandemic Response & Opportunity Through National Service Act, would expand AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps to aid in COVID-19 recovery efforts, including growing AmeriCorps to 750,000 positions over a three-year period; boost the AmeriCorps living stipend so that individuals regardless of financial situation can participate; increase the education award to cover up to two years of public university tuition; ramp up Senior Corps teleworking technology, and more. These programs are a part of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
More about the bill, from a group advocating support for such at this link: Support the Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act.
Full disclosure: I have signed. I absolutely support this bill.
Also see:
- Three resources for your COVID-19-related volunteering.
- Saying “no” to recruiting volunteers for certain tasks.
- Making your volunteer engagement as accessible as possible and how to do it.
- Before you recruit any volunteers.
- Trump is trying to eliminate national service – again (2019).
- Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers (developed by AmeriCorps members) (2017).
- Corporation for National and Community Service needs a makeover? (2011).
- Sanchez Elementary School Online Mentoring Program, an elementary school-based online volunteering program organized in cooperation with the AmeriCorps members serving at this Austin school at the time (1999).
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