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National Service Programs. AmeriCorps*USA--First-Year Experience and Recent Program Initiatives. Statement for the Record of Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division. Testimony before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
AmeriCorps is the largest national and community service program since the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Data from meeting with officials of AmeriCorps*USA; examination of grant files for all grantees' programs; review of Corporation program policies, guidance, and plans; random sampling of programs; and site visits to seven…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Program Costs
Compilation of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 as Amended through December 31, 1987. An Information Paper Prepared for Use by the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate. 100th Congress, 2d Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1988
The Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 authorizes ACTION, an independent agency, to administer six volunteer programs including the three components under Title II, the Older Americans Volunteer Program (OAVP). The programs under OAVP--the Foster Grandparent Program (FGP), the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), and the Senior Companion…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Grandparents
Volunteer Service Promotion Act of 1987. Hearing on S. 1189 To Amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 To Authorize Grants to States for Demonstration Projects that Provide to Older Individuals Services in Return for Certain Volunteer Services Provided to Other Individuals. before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
This document contains testimony and written statements on a proposal to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize grants to states for demonstration projects that provide services to older persons in return for their service as volunteers. Persons testifying included representatives of the Reagan Administration, voluntary nonprofit…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Compilation of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 as Amended through September 30, 1985. Prepared for Use by the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives. 99th Congress, 2d Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This Congressional report is a compilation of the 1985 amendments to the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-113). Included in the report are amendments to the following parts of the act: Title I (national volunteer antipoverty programs, including Volunteers in Service to America, service-learning programs, and special volunteer…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Financial Support, National Programs, Older Adults
The Foundation Handbook: A Private Foundation Approach to Fund Raising at State Colleges and Universities.
Lemish, Donald L. – 1981
Guidelines for state colleges and universities who wish to use a foundation as an umbrella organization for receiving all private gifts, restricted and unrestricted, are presented. In examining the need for a foundation, attention should be directed to: establishing credibility, marshalling volunteers, providing for a mechanism for accepting life…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Endowment Funds, Financial Needs, Financial Policy
Eliminating Illiteracy. Hearings on Examining Proposed Legislation To Coordinate and Strengthen Efforts at the Federal, State, and Local and Private and Non-Profit Sector Levels To Challenge and Elimate Illiteracy in the United States, before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session (May 4, 18, and July 10, 1989).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1989
This document reports oral and written testimony of witnesses at three Congressional hearings on eliminating illiteracy held in spring and summer, 1989. Witnesses included Senators Paul Simon, Howard Metzenbaum, Nancy Kassebaum, Strom Thurmond, Thad Cochran, and Orrin Hatch; Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos; literacy program managers and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Finance