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The 2012 National Conference on Volunteering and Service will be June 18 - 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois!
A program of Points of Light Institute, this annual event provides attendees with an...
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Offers ten tips for institutions of higher education on ways they can partner with the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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This page of the website explains the Corporation’s strategic initiative: Engaging Students in Communities, and provides a link to the strategic plan in its entirety.
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The Higher Education Act requires that all higher education institutions participating in the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program allocate at least seven percent of their annual funding to student jobs...
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Title IV schools and holders of federal and state agency student loans can sign up to receive payments electronically from the National Service Trust by taking the steps outlined on this page of the...
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This web page serves as a portal for the AmeriCorps Online Payment System and includes links to My AmeriCorps, FAQs, and log-in information, as well as an explanation of automated payment processing.
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This web page lists ways that college and universities can match the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award including providing a 1-to-1 or 2-to-1 cash match from institutional funds, matching with...
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The Corporation for National and Community Service is committed to supporting a culture of service on college campuses. This web page describes the ways the Corporation supports the civic mission of...
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This page on the AmeriCorps.gov website lists contact information for service programs that want to work with AmeriCorps.
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The interactive program selector requires the answers to four basic questions — “Who are you?” “What do you want to do?” “What types of resources are you seeking?” and “How long would you like to...
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This page provides a link that launches an interactive program selector for help in determining which of the Corporation’s seven AmeriCorps programs best fits an organization's needs.
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This page on the AmeriCorps.gov website provides a brief overview of the differences between AmeriCorps State, AmeriCorps National, AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC. Includes links to the...
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National Service Fellows conducted in-depth research resulting in resource manuals, curricula, methodologies, studies, websites, and other products that help practitioners design and implement better...
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By Marilynn Shaw, Principal, Mosier Elementary School
SPRING 1997 (archived information - please note the date of publication)
Mosier Elementary School is located in Mosier, Oregon. Currently, five...
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The Alternative Classroom Experience (ACE) program of the Joseph Pfeifer Kiwanis Camp, just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, is a unique program with a mission to help children live their lives more...
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Reading the classic works of literature can be intimidating for anyone, especially middle and high school students. This effective practice highlights a strategy that helps readers keep track of who’...
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This effective practice suggests a creative approach for learning new words that is engaging and fun for students. The strategy was contributed by Sarah Kurachek in March 2006 via the America Learns...
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Teaching grammar to children can be a time for tutors to get creative! This technique, "Around the World with Nouns," helps young students conceptualize what nouns are. LaTarsha Bernard, a second...
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Many young people are looking for opportunities to improve the communities in which they live. The Roadmap to Civic Engagement, created by the Washington Service Corps in collaboration with Service-...
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School administrators in Boyd County, Kentucky coordinated a multi-district method for students to promote character education and become volunteers. Middle and high school students from three school...
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My Corps Summer is a two-week program that gives special education high school students from the Philadelphia area the opportunity to gain valuable job and life skills and improve academic goals by...
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Corresponding with Earth Day, 2002, four AmeriCorps members from Habitat for Humanity, New York City held their community service project in Fort Tryon Park in the Washington Heights section of...
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The America Reads program at the University of Utah has 37 Federal Work Study (FWS) tutors (2002) serving in three Salt Lake City, Utah, elementary schools. An AmeriCorps member serves as a site...
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A new director of an elementary school literacy tutoring program in rural Purdy, Missouri, established a collaboration with a local university to train her AmeriCorps tutors (called reading coaches...
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The Washington Reading Corps was created in 1998 to provide intensive and immediate instruction to elementary students in schools with low reading assessment scores. The program is a unique service...
