On February 8, 2011, the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) unanimously approved the agency’s 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan provides a roadmap for using national service to address critical challenges facing our communities and our nation. 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.

The Strategic Plan outlines the Corporation’s strategy for addressing the six focus areas previously identified in the Serve America Act: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.

To ensure that CNCS programs support interventions that deliver results aligned with the objectives and strategies developed for each focus area, CNCS created Strategy Charts for each focus area. Based on these objectives and strategies, the Resource Center will gather resources to help programs achieve the greatest impact in each of the six focus areas:

• Disaster Services
  This focus area refers to the preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts that relate to disaster events.
• Economic Opportunity
  This focus area addresses unmet needs of economically disadvantaged individuals, including financial literacy, affordable housing, and employment‐related assistance.
• Education
  This focus area refers to unmet educational needs within communities, especially those that help at-risk youth to achieve success in school and prevent them from dropping out.
• Environmental Stewardship
  This focus area applies to energy and water efficiency, renewable energy use, at-risk ecosystems, and behavioral change leading to increased efficiency.
• Healthy Futures
  This focus area addresses unmet health needs, including access to health care, increasing physical activity and improving nutrition in youth, and increasing seniors’ ability to remain in their own homes.
• Veterans & Military Families
  This focus area refers to unmet needs of veterans, members of the armed forces, and family members of deployed military personnel.

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