Washington, DC - On the heels of Veterans Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service hosted a conference call today to promote funding opportunities to support programs that leverage veterans' skills and expertise to serve local communities through its Veterans Corps, a program authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. These funds are part of the $363 million requested in the President's FY 2010 budget for the AmeriCorps program.
Washington, DC - The Corporation for National and Community Service released its Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Financial Report (AFR), which presents an overall assessment of agency performance, including financial management and audit. The report confirms that the agency and its programs are meeting critical needs in education, youth development, disaster relief, health and other human needs in communities across the country through high quality service programs.
U.S. Senator Warner and Representative Sarbanes to Discuss
Development of Veterans Corps
Washington, DC – Nicola Goren, Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service will be joined by U.S. Senator Mark Warner (VA) and RepresentativeJohn Sarbanes (MD) on a national conference call to discuss new funding opportunities to support veterans service and military families on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 2pm.
Dear Colleagues:
The Corporation remains highly focused on implementing the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and we want to update you on some of our key activities over the past month.
Staff from across the agency are working on implementation, from drafting rules and designing programs to conducting outreach and creating technology systems. While some steps are contingent on final enactment of our FY 2010 appropriation, we are moving forward on a wide range of components, consistent with deadlines, agency priorities, and consultations with Congress.
Dear National Service Colleagues:
I am pleased to report that, over this past weekend, we successfully transitioned the eSPAN, eGrants and AmeriCorps Portal to our new Managed Data Center Services contractor almost two weeks ahead of schedule! The systems are up and running and the change will have no effect on their functionality. This migration will improve overall system stability by removing the environmental issues (such as electricity) that have made these applications unavailable from time to time.
Dear National Service Colleagues,
The eSPAN, eGrants and AmeriCorps Portal will be migrating to our new Managed Data Center Services contractor. In preparation for this enhancement, our systems- including My AmeriCorps, eGrants and eSpan- will be unavailable from Friday, November 13 at 8:00 PM EDT until Monday, November 16 at 8:00 AM EDT.
This migration will improve the overall system by removing the environmental issues (electricity) that have made these systems become unavailable from time to time.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner to Lead Agency's National Call on New Veterans Corps
Lead Sponsor Target Lends Early Support to Points of Light Institute and the Corporation for National and Community Service; Record Attendance Expected
ATLANTA – Points of Light Institute and the Corporation for National and Community Service announced today that the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service will be held in New York City, June 28-30. This event is the nation's largest convening on service and civic engagement and will bring together more than 4,000 volunteer and service leaders and social entrepreneurs from around the world.
Dear National Service Colleagues,
Last Friday, President Obama signed a continuing resolution which will fund the Corporation for National and Community Service and various other federal agencies and programs at Fiscal 2009 levels through December 18, 2009.
Earlier this month, I joined the President in New Orleans for his first visit there since the election. A key part of the President's message was that the Gulf Coast's recovery didn't flow just from government programs and policies: