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Download full textCorporation for National and Community Service, 2017
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency and the nation's largest grantmaker in support of service and volunteering, manages AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Volunteer Generation Fund. This brief report provides an overview of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
Descriptors: Volunteers, Community Programs, Community Problems, Service Learning
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2017
AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women ages 18-24. AmeriCorps NCCC members are assigned to one of five regional campuses into teams of approximately ten members and complete 2-3 month projects responding to local communities' needs throughout the United States. To…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Volunteers
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2017
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is a federal agency that annually engages millions of Americans in service and volunteering at more than 50,000 sites across the country. Senior Corps and AmeriCorps members play a vital role in helping communities design and implement locally determined, results-driven, cost-effective…
Descriptors: National Programs, Service Learning, Volunteers, Older Adults
Peer reviewedReif, Kathleen – Public Libraries, 2000
explains the work by the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators Birth to Five Task Force that has helped public libraries get involved in community programs for preschoolers. Topics include national resources and initiatives; brain research; reading research; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study; systems reform for solving community…
Descriptors: Brain, Community Problems, Community Programs, Evaluation Methods
KRASNEGOR, REBECCA; SHARP, LAURE M. – 1966
FOLLOWUP STUDY TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WHICH WERE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE OR LIKELY TO BECOME AVAILABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE WERE IDENTIFIED AND DESCRIBED FOR PURPOSES OF PROGRAM EVALUATION. PROCEDURES CONSISTED ESSENTIALLY OF GATHERING AND ANALYZING SECONDARY SOURCE MATERIALS, INCLUDING PERTINENT PUBLICATIONS AND STUDIES.…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Employment Opportunities, Followup Studies, Measurement Instruments
Corporation for National Service, Washington, DC. – 1999
This handbook provides AmeriCorps Promise Fellows with important information about their participation in this special initiative of AmeriCorps and America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth. Section 1 is an overview of AmeriCorps, including its mission, the mission of America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth, and the role of AmeriCorps Promise…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Child Welfare, Community Problems
Greenhalgh, Claire – 1997
Establishing a British national strategy to tackle youth drug use would seem an obvious first step in solving the drug problem. Some ideas for remedying the drug problem among young people are presented in this conference report. Drug abuse among children and adolescents throws up some complex issues and the obstacles to any coordinated,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Community Problems
