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THANKS
Geri Critchley
Intercultural Education Counselor
Warren wiggins, President
PEACE CORPS
TransCentury
1901 N. Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1017, Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 351-5500 Telex: 6491168 TRANSCEN Fax: (703) 351-5510
VOCUNTEERS
Washington, DC Office: (202) 966-4602
February 23, 1993
Geri Critchley
202-966-4602
Eli Segal
Assistant to the President
Director of National Service
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Eli,
I asked you a question at the Youth Service America meeting
recently: "Are you going to utilize the more than 130,000 returned
Peace Corps Volunteers in the National Service Initiative?"
You assured me you were not going to forget us. We loved President
Clinton's speech and his reference to the Peace Corps. Thank you.
We look forward to working with you.
I consult with Warren Wiggins, whom you met with Sargent Shriver.
Warren was the mastermind behind the Peace Corps implementation in
1961 - 32 years ago.
I also consult with the National Council of Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers. I was hired in December to write a proposal on how
RPCVs could contribute to national service (proposal attached).
In October, I initiated and coordinated a Clinton Benefit for
Peace Corps alumni in support of National Service at the home of
Delano Lewis. (It was organized in 3 weeks; 300 attendees; $11,500
raised; $3,000 profit).
Delano Lewis, President of C&P Telephone, was a Peace Corps
Director in Africa in the late 60's. He and his wife, Gayle, were
so gracious and generous to accept my request to have the
Clinton/Community Service benefit at their home on such short
notice.
Jo Luck Wilson Cargile, former Director of Tourism in Arkansas and
presently the CEO of Heifer Project International in Little Rock,
was trememdously helpful with the benefit along with Nancy
McFadden and Jodi Franklin of the Clinton campaign/Transition
Team.
Tom Schneider, Clinton Campaign Technology Coordinator and
Co-Chair of the National Finance Committee, gave me the use of his
office, secretaries, telephones, photocopy machines without
hesitation. Volunteers swarmed into his office, and he didn't
blink an eye.
Speakers included Gloria Cabe, Clinton Campaign and Transition
Team; Nick Littlefield, Ted Kennedy's Office, Chief Counsel,
Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources; Marty Rogers,
Senator Wofford's Office; Richard Price, Clinton Campaign/Housing,
and Richard Herman, Founder and Director of Interlocken Center for
Experiential Learning in New Hampshire.
I am Interlocken's Washington, DC Representative for their summer
community service student programs - domestic and international.
I followed this gathering with a Community Services Issues Forum
with 100 Peace Corps alumni with Catherine Milton, Executive
Director, Commission on National and Community Service.
Through TransCentury, I am a career advisor; I have counseled many
returned Peace Corps Volunteers in creating and finding jobs.
Last year, I was the Director of Development and the Assistant
Director of the 30th Anniversary of the Peace Corps on the mall
here in Washington and the Director of the Career Fair.
Warren Wiggins and I will be meeting with Jack Hogan, Acting
Director, and Barbara Busch, Chief Domestic Operations, at the
Peace Corps today to discuss strategies of national service
through the Peace Corps structure itself. We'll certainly inform
you of the ideas generated.
I would love to fill an official position within the Peace Corps
or in the National Service Initiative to utilize my 20 years of
professional and personal experience, energy, catalyst/networking
inborn proclivity and entrepreneurial spirit to envision and
develop the national service program! (profile enclosed)
I'd love to plug myself into national service to continue to work
on the exciting possibilities and opportunities ahead for all of
us. I've certainly spent the last six months doing all that's
humanly possible from the "outside". I think I could now make a
greater contribution from within the federal beauracracy. I look
forward to talking with you.
Sincerely,
geri
Geri Critchley
3907 Huntington St. NW
Washington, DC 20015
202-966-4602
cc: Bill Galston
Bruce Lindsey
Tom Edwards
Enclosures:
Proposal: "Peace Corps Alumni's Contribution to National Service"
Professional Profile
Supporting papers
References
In support of the Democratic Party's
vision of Community Service
You are cordially invited to a
gathering of Peace Corps Alumni
At the home of
GAYLE AND DELANO LEWIS
12620 Travilah Road
Potomac, Maryland
Saturday, October 24, 1992
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
hors d'oeuvres -- casual attire -- cash bar
Mr. Lewis served as Peace Corps staff in Nigeria ('66-'67) and Uganda ('67-'69) and is presently
President and C.E.O. of C & P Telephone of Washington, D.C.
Invited Honorary Chairperson:
R. Sargent Shriver
First Peace Corps Director, '61-'68
Invited Speakers: Tom Schneider, Technology Coordinator/Co-Chair National Finance Committee
Gloria Cabe, Clinton/Gore Congressional Liaison
Gengressman Joseph P. Kennedy, П, Democrat, Massachusetts-
Martin Rodgers, Senator Harris Wofford Staff, Democrat, Pennsylvania
Other guest speakers to be announced
NICK Littlefield, Sen Ted tennity's offece
Coordinat or: Geri Critchley
(Senegal, 71-72)
PEACE CORPS ALUMNI GATHERING
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1992
1:00 . 4:00 P.M.
"I want Amorica to send a message that our society
values and horors sowice to our community
os
"I'd rather see everysee
pay bach that debt
(eallege cultice) by going home and working
for two years in a peace corpe here in Amorica"
Bill Clinton
Address at the University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana
September 11, 1992
"Nothing carries the spirit of American idealism more effectively
to the far corners of the Earth than the Peace Corps"
John F. Kennedy
State of the Union message
January 14, 1963
Since 1961, more than 125,000 Peace Corps volunteers and staff have served America abroad and have
continued to serve back home in thousands of community service projects.
The Clinton/Gore campaign and the Democratic Party welcome our contribution in the development of its
community service/education policy in the new administration.
Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps' first Director, later served as the Director of the Office of Economic
Opportunity. This agency created the job corps and a full range of still existing yet presently underfunded
community service programs across the United States.
Besides our commitment to service, Peace Corps alumni have a unique contribution to make. We have
served in more than 100 countries and speak as many languages. In our increasingly multicultural society
and global marketplace, we are needed more than ever with our intercultural, interracial and foreign
language skills - the essential job skills for the 21st century.
Representatives of the Democratic Party will attend this gathering to present the Party's community
service/education policy and to exchange ideas with Peace Corps alumni.
We hope this event will be the beginning of an ongoing exchange between Peace Corps alumni and the
upcoming Democratic administration.
This is a unique opportunity to make a difference. We look forward to seeing you there.
geri Critchley
I want America to send a message
that our society values and honors
service to our community.
President-Elect Bill Clinton
University of Notre Dame
September 11, 1992
Issues Forum
Community Service and Volunteerism
Keynote Speaker:
Catherine Milton, Executive Director
The Commission on National and Community Service
Panelists:
Marty Rc
of Senator Harris Wofford's i
Morgan Doughton, One to One, a national me
Roger Nicholson, Earthwatch
Moderator:
Geri Critchley, Intercultural Consultant
Interlocken Center for Experiential Learning
Questions? Call 202-966-4602
Thursday, November 19, 1992
7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Sumner School
17th and M Streets, N.W.
Across from National Geographic, near Dupont Circle
The new Administration, the Commission on National and Community Service, and the
Congress present a unique opportunity to make a difference. This forum will encourage a
dialogue on strategies and programs to propose to the Clinton Administration and the
Commission. Public and private community service programs and national legislation will
be discussed.
Sponsored by
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington, D.C.
agens
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in cooperation with
National Council
Returned Peace Corps Voicr
3907 Huntington St. NW
January 1993
Washington, DC 20015
202-966-4602
GERI CRITCHLEY
PROFILE
Presently:
Consultant to TransCentury, Warren Wiggins, first Peace
Corps Associate Director
Coordinator, Clinton Community Service Benefit with
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Delano Lewis's home)
Consultant, National Council of Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers on community service
Coordinator/Moderator "Community Service Issues Forum" with
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers; Keynote Speaker:
Catherine Milton, Executive Director,
Commission on National and Community Service
Consultant, "Implementing the National Service Initiative"
Conference, Washington, DC
Educational Opportunities Fund Board, Interlocken
Career Advisor/Counselor
Formerly:
Director of Development/Assistant Director, Peace Corps
30th Anniversary
Director, Career Fair, Peace Corps 30th Anniversary
Peace Corps Volunteer (Senegal '71-'72)
Initiator, two Peace Corps WorldWise Schools (Washington)
Director, The Experiment in International Living (EIL)
Washington, DC Regional Office
Director, EIL Canadian National Office
Consultant, EIL International Community Development and
Training Office, Washington, DC
Founder and Director of a community-based International
Center in Rochester, MN (12,000 participants - first year)
Initiator and Consultant to an Eastern European Youth
Entrepreneur Exchange with the Institute of International
Education (USIA funded)
Group Leader of summer student programs in the USA,
France and Mexico
Group Leader of Art Tour to France
French Embassy Scholarship to study in France with
international education coordinators from 22 countries
U.S. Department of State Escort
Program Coordinator, University of Chicago, International
Student Center
Intercultural Education Training Consultant, Ministry of
Citizenship and Culture, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fundraiser (initiated and coordinated many benefits, i.e.
for educational scholarships, Clinton, RPCVs,
Senior TransCentury Personn
warren wiggins, President
Geri Critchley
Ms. Critchley has extensive and varied experience in intercultural education and
in the administration of international economic development programs. She
founded and directed a community-based international center, directed inter-
national education exchange organizations in the U.S. and Canada, led student
and art groups abroad, assisted international visitors for the State Department
and coordinated international student programs.
As an international training consultant employed by Ontario Ministry of Citizen-
ship and Culture, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she supervised training projects and
programs funded by the Ontario government's Multiculturalism Strategy Pro-
gram. She also advised public and private sector on the overall planning, man-
agement and coordination of these grants. For the Institute of International Educa-
tion, she initiated, managed and trained a diverse group of young Eastern
European citizens in an European Entrepreneur Program. For the Department of
State, she personally led a distinguished group of African women on a study tour
in the United States concerning "Women in International Development."
As the Founder and Director of the International Center in Minnesota, Ms.
Critchley raised all the funds for its operations and administered over 12,000 par-
ticipants in the Center's programs.
In the early 1970s, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal. She has traveled
from the North Pole to China to Timbuktu. She has extensive experience as an in-
ternational training consultant.
TOTAL P.01
GERI CRITCHLEY
3907 Huntington St. NW
Washington, DC 20015
202-966-4602
REFERENCES
Jack Hogan, Acting Deputy Director, Peace Corps
Barbara Busch, Chief of Operations/Domestic, Peace Corps
Sargent Shriver, first Peace Corps Director
Warren Wiggins, first Peace Corps Associate Director
Founder and President, TransCentury Corporation
Jo Luck Wilson Cargile, CEO, Heifer Project International
Delano Lewis, CEO, C&P Telephone
David Hackett, Executive Director, Youth Policy Institute
Tom Schneider, Technology Coordinator and Co-Chair National
Finance Committee, Clinton Campaign
Nancy McFadden and Jodi Foster, Clinton Campaign/Transition Team
Nick Littlefield, Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Labor and
Human Resources, Ted Kennedy's staff
Charles Dambach, Executive Director, National Council of
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Lyn Gray, former Executive Director, National Council of
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Father Harold Bradley, Office of the President,
Georgetown University
Harold Brinkley, Vice President, One to One Foundation
Dick Irish, author, Go Hire Yourself an Employer; TransCentury
Sherry Mueller, Director, Institute of International Education
Francis Luzzatto, Citizen Democracy Corps
Jeffrey Weiss, Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Justice,
Community Relations Service
MORE REFERENCES ON REQUEST
The Experiment in International Living
DATE:
and its School for International Training
Friday, August 2, 1991
Cordially Invite You to Celebrate with
LOCATION:
Under a tent on the Mall, between the Air & Space
The National Council of Returned
Museum and the Botanical Garden, Washington, DC
Peace Corps Volunteers at the
EVENING EVENTS:
30th Peace Corps Anniversary Conference
7:30 PM* - EIL will present citations in appreciation
of 30 years of EIL/Peace Corps collaboration
"Tbe Experiment taught me bow to form
7:40 PM - Theatreworks/USA "Class Clown"
the Peace Corps 30 years later
A compelling new family musical ober
-speak the language, wear the clothes, eat
one boy's struggle to achieve Intrucy.
Book by Thomas E. West Lyrics by Alison Hubbard
the food, accept the customs, waste no money-
Music by Kim Oler
study play learn."
8:30 PM - Entertainment
Sargent Shriver,
First Peace Corps Director 1961
A REPLY IS REQUESTED BY JULY 25 TO:
Experiment in International Living (EIL) Germany and
GERI CRITCHLEY
Austria 1934; EIL Leader, Germany & Austria 1936;
Committee Chairperson (Peace Corps/Senegal)
EIL Leader, France 1939. Honorary Chairperson,
3907 Huntington Street, NW
Washington, DC 20015
30th Peace Corps Anniversary Conference 1991.
Tickets: $10 (mailed only)**
Funded in part by a grant from The Hunt Foundations
Make checks payable to:
The Experiment In International Living
DESIGN & TYPE BY GRAPHIC INTERFACE
PRINTING BY THE PRINTING NETWORK, INC.
*Starting times may be slightly later due to Conference logistics.
**Included in fee for Conference registrants.
interlocken
Center for
Experiential
Learning
1993 Season
Dear Friend,
Established 1961
Welcome to the Interlocken family of creative educational summer programs.
Since 1961, more than 9,000 young people have explored the world, Interlocken style.
Whether they join the residential summer camp in New Hampshire or a travel or commu-
nity service program, Interlocken campers and students "learn by doing" and enrich their
lives with lasting friendships, new skills, self-discoveries, and increased environmental and
cross-cultural awareness.
We are writing to you from the residential camp, nestled in a pristine 1000-acre wilder-
ness preserve, headquarters for our travel and residential school-year programs; nine of us
get to skate the lake and ski cross-country as we work full-time through the winter. This
fall, five high schools and colleges came to Interlocken for orientation, group development
and leadership training programs. The June 1, 1993 completion of the new community-
built dining hall will enable us to accommodate school year groups year-round.
Five new programs are offered ford993: mountain biking in New England, environ-
mental explorations in Maine, experimental journalism in Eastern Europe, and community
service programs with the Zuni and Hopi. Three programs have changed face for 1993:
Drama Britain is expanding to become Drama Europe; Mexico is now a community
service program and Russia focuses more on language.
Enjoy reading our catalogue and discovering the excitement, learning and adventure
that awaits you.
Best wishes with your summer search,
Richard Kerman
Richard Herman
Director
P.S. Be sure to look at the staff listing in the back of the catalogue; you'll discover the real
source of our strength and success.
December 1992
Geri Critchley
3907 Huntington St. NW
Washington, DC 20015
202-966-4602
THE PEACE CORPS and RETURNED PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS
CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL SERVICE
"I want America to send a message that our society values and
honors service to our community
"
"I'd
rather
see
everyone
pay back that (college tuition) by
going home and working for two years in a Peace Corps here
in America."
President Bill Clinton
University of Notre Dame
September 11, 1992
The Peace Corps and the National Council of Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers (NCRPCV) seek to contribute to the Clinton
administration in National Service. It is recommended that there
be an increase in the annual appropriation to the Peace Corps to
fund Third Goal programs - bringing the world back home through a
variety of educational and community service programs in order to
make a difference locally, nationally and internationally.
The Peace Corps has domestic programs with returned Peace Corps
Volunteers, but they are few and underfunded. The programs they do
have are very successful.
The Peace Corps in partnership with the National Council of
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (grantee or contractor) is in a
position to continue to accept the challenges - and opportunities
- associated with fulfilling the domestic educational mission of
the Peace Corps.
The General Accounting Office, in a 1990 report on the Peace Corps
commissioned by the House of Representatives, suggested that the
Peace Corps strengthen its efforts to attain its development and
intercultural goals:
"Peace Corps has traditionally focussed little attention on
achieving the third goal (continuing to serve back home) in a
systematic way. It was envisioned by early Peace Corps planners
that volunteers would return to the United States and
automatically teach what they learned overseas. Consequently, a
major mechanism to systematically carry out this goal was not
established by Peace Corps. The National Council of Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers (NCRPCV) was formed to engage in third
goal activitites " (continuing to serve back home)
Recommendations for National Service
Critchley
This appropriation would be one of the best investments the new
administration could make in national service. Peace Corps alumni
have proven their overwhelming commitment to serve back home in
programs with only a shoestring budget.
Example: Peace Corps's WorldWise Schools program
5 staff
5,000 volunteers (present volunteers and RPCVs)
contributing to thousands of schools across the USA in
only three years. (initiated in 1989)
budget: $383,000.
The National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (NCRPCV),
the umbrella organization of former Peace Corps volunteers and
staff, is an independent, private, nonprofit organization with 501
(c) (3) tax exempt status. There are more than 150 RPCV community
service groups in almost every state in our country affiliated
with the NCRPCV that have organized hundreds of community service
projects. They are ready for the "call" from the White House.
Besides our continuing commitment to service, 130,000 Peace Corps
alumni have a unique contribution to make. We have served in more
than 100 countries and speak as many languages. In our
increasingly multicultural society and global marketplace, we are
needed more than ever before with our intercultural, interracial
and foreign language skills - the essential job skills for the
21st century. This intercultural sensitivity can decrease racial
and ethnic misunderstanding and conflict in America. Cross
cultural skills also enables one to work in situations from the
inner city to Capitol Hill, grassroots programs to multinational
corporations, and from preschool to senior citizens.
In the 1960's, Peace Corps volunteers were called "The Kennedy
Kids". Today they are ambassadors, business leaders, writers,
editors, members of Congress, college presidents, teachers, CEOs
of multinational organizations and community and state leaders.
The overwhelming response to President John F. Kennedy's call for
volunteers to serve our country 32 years ago is waiting to be
tapped again by another presidential call to serve our country at
home. The talent and the willingness to serve is there in
abundance. The Peace Corps shaped more than a generation of its
citizens, and that commitment to serve remains an integral part of
our lives. In this time of peace, who could be better equipped to
serve our country than returned Peace Corps volunteers?
Global is local; local is global. RPCVs have been imbued with a
commitment to service - service to humankind irregardless of
geography.
RPCVs have a heightened patriotism - an increased understanding
and appreciation enhanced by serving our country abroad and
observing it through a foreign perspective.
Peace Corps alumni are a ready-made network for a people-generated
mandate for change that can produce a practical people-oriented
downgrading of the deficit and a strengthening of our world
economy.
Critchley
PEACE CORPS'S DOMESTIC PROGRAMS
The Peace Corps IS national service, and it is the oldest
federally funded service program.
The following domestic Peace Corps programs reflect the immense
response of Peace Corps alumni to domestic service that are
successful with a very limited budget and limited staff:
These programs are an example of public/ private partnership in
innovative programming.
World Wise Schools Program
Five staff, 5000 volunteers (present PCVs and RPCVs)
contributing to thousands of schools across the USA in only
three years. (initiated in 1989)
"Equipping today's students with a global perspective is not an
easy task The World Wise Schools program helps us do that. "
Senator David Boren, Oklahoma.
Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program
RPCVs are placed in full time teaching positions across the
United States in challenging areas while pursuing a masters
degree program through a scholarship or reduced tuition. More
than 250 RPCVs have served over 45,000 students since the
program began in 1985. A staff of two support 200 RPCVs in the
field.
The Dewitt Wallace Reader's Digest fund announced a $6.7 million
award primarily to support 15 Fellows Programs and the operation
of the office.
Peace Corps Masters Internationalist and Peace Corps Preparatory
Programs
Academic Institutions collaborate with Peace Corps to provide
experiential education to the curriculum through community
service both abroad and in the USA with reduced tuition and
scholarships. The national program has a two person office.
The Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection has area
offices in 15 major cities with a satellite in Puerto Rico. This
is another national network for implementing national programs.
(An option in the National Service program could include service
in the Peace Corps with the accompanying educational
loans/tuition forgiveness benefits.)
FUNDING is needed to support and expand Peace Corps alumni's
contribution to community service in a collaborative partnership
between the Peace Corps domestic office and the NCRPCVs.
Recommendations for National Service Critchley
A PRESIDENTIAL CALL from the White House to Peace Corps Alumni to
continue to serve back home again in the first days of the new
administration:
will most likely produce an overwhelming response from Peace Corps
alumni who would respond to a presidential call like they did with
President Kennedy 32 years ago. They have not been asked since to
serve their country, yet the third goal of Peace Corps is to bring
the world back home.
STRENGTHEN EXISTING PROGRAMS
Instead of creating a new national and community service program,
it is recommended that the new administration dramatically
strengthen existing national and community service programs under
the national service program from the White House.
In this way, Clinton will not compete or undermine what is already
well-functioning, entrepreneurial and time-tested. This will give
Clinton more time to implement any new programs he may decide to
and to also utilize and support the human resources already in
place, thereby reducing the cost and "putting people first".
The National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (NCRPCV)
and the Peace Corps domestic programs could be expanded
dramatically with little funding.
COMPUTERIZED DATABASE
The National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers is
creating a computerized database of RPCVs skills and interests who
are willing to serve in their local communities, short term
disaster relief especially with refugees and immigrants, as
interpretors and translators, for summer intercultural community
service projects for a diverse group of students from across the
USA, in an apprenticeship program where they would be the mentors,
as intercultural/community service trainers at a national training
center, or as world area experts.
This database would be available for all organizations who could
tap into RPCVs in their local communities.
The Citizen Democracy Corps has created an extensive computerized
matching program between jobs and individuals all over the world.
A key person in this corps is a Peace Corps alumni very eager to
assist.
Youth Policy Institute (David Hackett, Executive Director)
the Institute is developing a database and methodology that
provides access to comprehensive information on proposed solutions
and the status on issues. Mr. Hackett would like to contribute to
national service.
Recommendations for National Service continued Critchley
NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER
One of the sites could be Interlocken Center for Experiential
Education in New Hampshire. Interlocken was founded in 1961, the
same year as the Peace Corps. It organizes summer youth Peace
Corps-type community service programs across the United States and
around the world and an international summer camp on its 1,000
acres of forest preserve. During the school year, it serves as a
center for experiential learning. Richard Herman, its founder and
director, is very interested in participating in the national
service movement of the new administration.
Center Programs:
Intercultural, interracial and language training would be
available for community service organizations across the country.
This training would tap into the unique skills of Peace Corps
alumni to lessen prejudice and bigotry and to foster an
appreciation and understanding of diversity accompanied by a
second language capability.
Workshops on service learning, mentoring, apprenticeships,
experiential education, job counselling, job search training, etc.
would be given. Conferences around these themes would also be
organized.
Domestic Summer Youth Peace Corps
Intercultural community service summer programs for youth would be
organized across the USA. (also around the world) Youth would work
in a culture and an environment different from their own. These
programs are already available at Interlocken.
RPCVs in education would be available in the summer as group
leaders and trainers to accompany these groups.
RPCVs in education would also set up their own intercultural
summer youth program in their local communities recruiting
both locally and through Interlocken.
Environment education and outward bound skills would be part of
the training. EarthWatch and Outward Bound have expressed interest
in participating. (Peace Corps's first training incorporated
Outward Bound skills; the original trainer is available)
Interlocken's 1,000 acres is very adapted to such a program.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Another training site could be Georgetown University where
Father Harold Bradley has pioneered many community service
innovative programs and intercultural training and education
programs. He is eager to assist in the national service movement.
Recommendations for National Service continued
Critchley
ADVISORY/CONSULTING ROLE
The National Council and the Peace Corps are ready-made,
successful models for designing, implementing, training,
selection, placement, management and evaluation of community
service programs (including innovative programs for tuition
reduction/forgiveness).
A ready-made network of more than 150 RPCV local community service
groups in almost every state could be tapped to organize or
consult on community service programs responding to local needs.
Peace Corps Volunteer recruitment offices in 15 major cities with
a satellite in Puerto Rico are in place that have a network of
local RPCVs who could contribute their skills or refer community
resources.
RPCVs can be multicultural/intercultural/interracia advisors to
community organizations and to the 400 Volunteer Centers across
the USA.
RPCVs could work with the Community Relations Service of the U.S.
Department of Justice which would train them to be community
mediators and conciliators in racial and ethnic conflict, etc.
(120 staff and 10 regional offices nationally). The Deputy
Director is a Peace Corps alumnus and very eager to contribute.
RPCVs could work with the Close Up Foundation that trains youth in
civic responsibility and government participation in Washington,
DC. One of the directors is a Peace Corps alumnus and eager to
assist.
Initiate White House Fellowships for youth.
VOLUNTEER DAY
Initiate a Volunteer Day across the country like the Volunteer Day
that was organized at the 30th Peace Corps Celebration in
Washington, DC in August of 1991 with 1,000 Peace Corps alumni
doing community service projects.
This can also be a model for a community service component for any
conference anywhere.
Recommendations for National Service continued Critchley
APPRENTICESHIP/MENTORING
BUSINESS: RPCVs in business and corporate America could be
mentors for youth. The apprenticeship could be at their place of
employment, community service organizations or community drop out
(drop in) centers.
RPCVs could be loaned by their employers to conduct short term
small business training workshops for the unemployed for
-public infrastructure projects, i.e. public housing repair,
road building, etc.
-the projected technical skills of private enterprise in
a widening world market.
Businesses would receive a tax credit for their human investment.
SCHOOLS: Expand Peace Corps's World Wide Schools Program and the
other academic programs to increase global education.
RPCVs would work with the One to One Foundation which is a
privately funded national mentoring program in the schools; there
are offices in many major cities.
RPCVs could work with the schools creating community service
apprenticeships for its students. There are successful models at
Georgetown University and American University among many others.
Teachers could work during summers as leaders for youth Peace
Corps Programs across the United States or around the world,
international summer camps (including language training), or
create an intercultural program in their own community.
The Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs
would like to utilize RPCVs in their teacher training programs.
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES
place international students with community service projects in
their local communities
invite local international residents and students to
participate in programs that globalize the community, i.e.
international speakers programs, advice and contacts for
international trade and business between the local Chambers of
Commerce and international residents
-US Peace Corps Volunteer Alumni exchange with Japan Overseas
Volunteer Alumni
set up a truly global community service partnership through an
exchange program of Japanese Overseas Volunteer Alumni and Peace
Corps alumni to contribute their expertise to each other's
country for short term technical assistance projects. The
global community will gain from the mutual reinforcement of
ideas and understanding which may result from greater
collaboration among volunteer movements around the world.
-Volunteers to America (reverse Peace Corps)
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Nat'l Service Summer Model
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Established 1961
International
Summer Camp
Crossroads
Student Travel
Global Routes
Community Service
Multicultural Educational Adventures
Around The World
33rd Season
1993