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AMERICORPS
COMING SOON TO COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE
AmeriCorps is the new
AmeriCorps
domestic Peace Corps where
thousands of young people will
the new National Service
soon be getting things done
through service in exchange
for help financing their
movement that will
higher education or repaying
their student loans.
get things done.
Starting this fall, thousands
of AmeriCorps members
will fan out across the nation
Watch for
to meet the needs of
communities everywhere.
AmeriCorps, coming
And the kinds of things they
will help get done can truly
change America-things like
soon to your community
immunizing our infants
tutoring our teenagers
and find out more
Youth Corps members
keeping our schools safe
with the President at the
restoring our natural resources
by calling:
White House for the signing
and securing more
of AmeriCorps National
independent lives for our ill
Service legislation.
and our elderly.
1-800-94-ACORPS.
The Washington Post
Youth Service Corps
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1993
Officials Prepare
The winning service groups will then pick the
By the end of this month, a toll-free hot line (1.
students who will work for them. Some students
For Recruiting Blitz
800-94-ACORPS) will begin giving potential appli-
will go to work next summer, with the big kickoff in
cants basic information about the AmeriCorps pro-
September.
gram and help link students to specific programs in
"One of our objectives is to create a national ethic
particular cities.
By Mary Jordan
of service," said Eli Segal, president of the Corpo-
Each Cabinet-level agency also will be eligible to
Washington Past Staff WINIT
ration for National and Community Service that
apply for AmeriCorps funds.
oversees AmeriCorps.
Former inner-city gangsters and Stanford Uni-
All states have or will set up a community service
Congress approved $300 million for national ser-
commission to help select and monitor the Ameri-
versity honor students are among those expected to
vice in 1994. The White House hopes funding will
Corps programs. The commissions also will help
sign up in the new year for one of President Clin-
escalate, and that likely will depend on whether the
distribute the federal funds. About $11 million in
ton's new programs: youths performing community
program's initial reviews are good.
federal money has been set aside for the state com-
service to pay for college tuition.
According to Clinton, youths who "look like
missions, and they are expected to get some local
In January, radio and television advertisements
America" will be selected. Most are expected to be
funding too.
are to begin telling thousands of students how they
between the ages of 17 and 25. Some will get in-
The national office will cost an additional $14
can enroll in AmeriCorps and get paid for work
volved in environmental work, others in public safe-
million a year to operate. How it fares in its first
ranging from comforting AIDS patients to tutoring
ty, education or health programs.
year is considered crucial for the eventual success
preschoolers.
In addition to AmeriCorps, two smaller service
of AmeriCorps.
In interviews last week with AmeriCorps leaders,
programs are part of the national service corpora-
Some critics of the program say they worry it will
details of one of Clinton's most visible campaign
tion. One is the Civilian Community Corps (CCC).
not attract middle- and upper-class students be-
promises emerged for the first time. All 20,000 of
modeled after the popular 1930s pregram that gave
cause the pay is so low. Others are concerned about
the students to be selected next year will earn an
people jobs on public works projects, such as plant-
just the opposite, that only well-off students will be
$8,000 wage (roughly $4.25 an hour), plus health
ing trees and fixing parks.
able to join. And many are waiting to see if worth-
and child care benefits. If they successfully com-
The CCC will involve 800 students, and all will be
while work will get done.
plete the 12-month program, the youths also will
housed on military bases. Former military person-
get $4,725 in college or vocational school tuition or
nel will work as instructors. Youths participating in
loan forgiveness. The government will write a
this program do not have to have a high school de-
check to the school of their choice.
gree and will be selected as early as February.
Program officials expect a blizzard of applications
"The focus will be on civilian needs," said CCC
from students, even though the compensation will
director Donald Scott. Students will work at "cre-
be considerably lower than proposals floated during
ating green space in parks, tree-planting projects
Clinton's campaign.
and erosion control," among other projects, Scott
The first step is next month's media campaign,
said.
which will include spots on MTV, an effort that pro-
The other part of the service corporation is
gram officials hope will help make AmeriCorps as
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) formed
well known as the Peace Corps. In April and May,
in 1964 and located a few blocks from the White
nonprofit service groups such as Teach for Amer-
House at 1100 Vermont Ave. NW. VISTA's 3,400
ica, which brings recent college graduates into
volunteers will earn the same as AmeriCorps stu-
needy elementary school classrooms, will be select-
dents. and will do much the same kind of community
ed to participate.
work.
USA
TODAY
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 2. 1993
Launching national service policy
How to get
information
By Dennis Kelly
now gearing up the process of
with the education award.
USA TODAY
making it work.
Programs that qualify will
Regulations for the program
have to meet the educational,
People who think they'd
WASHINGTON - They
will be published in January.
human, environmental or pub-
like to apply for one of the
aren't officially taking applica-
Local and national groups then
lic safety needs of their com-
20,000 national service slots
bons yet for President Clinton's
will compete for grants begin-
munities. What those are will
available next year can get
national service plan - but
ring in the spring and learn
be up to commissions forming
information now, but appli-
they're already getting thou-
who gets funded between May
in each state - a "bottom-up"
cations won't be officially
sands of letters of interest.
and August. By the end of 1994,
approach that Segal says will
taken for a while
The people running the Cor-
the Clinton administration ex-
let communities decide what
To get Information on
poration for National and Com-
pects to have 20,000 working in
kinds of service are in their
AmeriCorps, call the Corpo-
munity Service - just a few
community service jobs and
best interest.
ration for National and
blocks from the White House
earning awards of $4,725 per
Still, Shirley Sagawa, nomi-
Community Service at 202-
say that's an indication of
year in the program toward a
nated as managing director of
606-5000 and then, If you
high interest the program has
college education or vocational
the corporation, says the corpo-
have a touch-tone phone,
generated But 11 also leaves
training.
ration will help provide the
dial 4 at the list of menu op-
them nervous about expecta-
The $1.5 billion program in-
program a "national identity."
tions. You can leave your
nons the program has created.
tends to have 100,000 partici-
That will include a common
name-and address and
There are moments of real
pants over three years.
oath taken by participants, a
you'll be sent a brochure.
anxiety about all that is expect-
SEGAL: Feels pressure to get
The part of the national and
logo, as well as training and
This month, the corpora-
ed We feel a real need to get
service program working soon
community service coΓpoΓa-
monitoring of program quality.
tion will announce a toll-
this done quickly," says Eli Se
tion devoted to Clinton's plan is
The corporation even plans to
free 800 number. Then In
gal. president of the corpora-
workers fixing up dilapidated
called AmeriCorps. Anyone 17
hire some investigative-jour-
May and August when 300
tion. the newly christened um-
homes or escorting the elderly
or over will be able to earn the
nalist types as "circuit riders"
to 400 non-profit groups are
brella group overseeing
to grocery stores in crime-in-
$4,725 award toward college or
to help ensure programs are
selected to offer the nation-
Clinton's national service plan
fested neighborhoods. They
vocational training by working
delivering on promises.
al service jobs, the toll-free
and a host of existing commu-
see college students working in
with the non-profit groups that
She says the program will
number will get you to an
nity service agencies "We've
Head Start and early childhood
are awarded grants in the ap-
also work hard to ensure that
operator who can tell you
got to go back to Congress and
education programs, all the
plication process, or by work-
program participants "look
about programs In your
ask for appropriations (again)
time earning money that will
ing with one of two existing ser-
like America." That's meant to
area. Local and national
next year The fear IS how
help pay their college bill
vice agencies, the Civilian
allay concerns that Ameri-
agencies that win grants will
much needs to be done and
Those daydreams have been
Community Corps or Volun-
Corps would be dominated ei-
do the hiring
how much we need the local
there ever since Clinton touted
teers in Service to America,
ther by low-income groups
Those interested also dan
communities to buy into this."
national service as one way to
better known as VISTA.
forced into national service as
write the corporation at
But the vision for Clinton's
help young people earn money
Those hired get a $7,400 per
the only way to pay for college
1100 Vermont Ave. N.W.,
national service program IS
for college.
year stipend - about mini-
or by students from high-in-
Washington, D.C. 20525,
certainly heady stuff.
But the daydreaming has
mum wage - plus health care
come families getting subsidies
Attn: AmeriCorps:
The Dallas Morning News
Texas' Leading Newspaper
Dallas. Texas. Monday. February 28, 1994
6
Sections
HF
25 Cents
National
service's
time has come
This is one of the best-kept
So, in Los Angeles, Mr. Segal met with represen-
secrets in the country." said
tatives of government agencies, schools, the United
Bruce Corwin, the chairman
of Metropolitan Theatres
Way and others looking for bright-eyed help in
Corp., as he listened to Eli Seg-
teaching literacy or cleaning up streets, even in
al, the man President Clinton
helping old ladies cross them without being
chose to create and run
mugged. in the spirit of the times, local sponsors
national service programs. "I
will put up 15 percent of AmeriCorps costs.
RICHARD
want to put this up on my
AmeriCorps members will be paid twice for a
REEVES
screens."
year of their time and energy. First they will get
A generous offer, consider-
something like the minimum wage for 40 hours a
ing that Metropolitan owns 800 screens in movie
week. Then they will receive grants of $4,725 toward
theaters across California And it is true that the
college tuition or other skill training for each year
new National and Community Service Trust Act,
of service. (There will also be summer corps pro-
grams for 3,500 students 8 year.)
signed into law by the presió. nt in September, has
The total budgeted (but not yet appropriated) for
gotten lost in the clouds of megia attention to
the service programs over the next three years is
Whitewater. Bosnia and Tonya Harding.
$1.5 billion. That would cover total service corps
But President Clinton- has bis domestic Peace
meinbership by then of 100,000 if Congress can be
Corps. "A dream," he said. In case anyone might
persuaded each year that every project is serving a
miss the conrection, be used the same pen Presi-
larger (profitable) purpose than just reinforcing
dent John Kennedy used to sign the executive
the idealism of the young and the good of the
order that created the Peace Corps back in 1961.
community.
Now Mr. Segal, a businessman who was Mr.
But I suspect that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Seg_1 are
Clinton's campaign chief of staff, is on the road
right. This is the best they can get now. If Ameri-
campaigning for himself - for his agency, offi-
Corps works - that is, if local communities approve
cially the Corporation for National and Community
of the work done - it will expand. possibly. one
Service. The corporation's management mandate
day. into universal national service.
includes the 3,400 members of VISTA (Volunteers in
The first syndicated column I wrote, 15 years ago
Service to America). created by President Lyndon
this month, argued that such national service was
Johnson in 1964, and a new 800-member Civilian
an idea whose time had come. 1 was wrong then -
Community Corps, young people working in
and often later too - but something like this is bet-
national forests and parks. What's new is
ter than nothing "National service can
AmeriCorpa
tell us what it is to be an American," said
AmeriCorps will begin recruiting 20,000 young
Mr. Segai, and I still hope he and the rest
men and women in May. Before that, Mr. Segal and
of us can make that happen - show one
a very small staff will be out collecting applications
another that there is more to life in these
from non-profit organizations putting together pro-
United States than marketing and
grams to employ AmeriCorps members. Govern-
consuming.
ment agencies from states as big as California to
small towns in Idaho can also apply for AmeriCorps
Richard Reeves' column is distributed
workers, but emphasizing private-sector involve-
by the Universal Press Syndicate.
ment was the price of winning conservative support
for national service. The idea that every unit of the
society must be geared to the needs and whims of
the "private sector." must "pay for itself" or, even
better. be a "profit center" has become imbedded in
the American mentality these days. Doing good or
investing in the future is no longer enough; govern-
ment has to make money. too.
SEASONS OF SERVICE
"I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of
service There is so much to be done enough, indeed, for millions of
others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, too."
President Bill Clinton, Inaugural Address
CORPORATION
T
he President's national service legislation created the new Corporation for
FOR NATIONAL
National and Community Service. Formed in conjunction with the White
House Office of National Service, built upon the foundation of the former
SERVICE
Commission on National and Community Service and ACTION, and
incorporating the new Civilian Community Corps, the Corporation is positioned
to revitalize service in every region and community across the country.
T
he Corporation supports a range of national and community service
programs, providing opportunities for participants to serve full-time and
part-time, as volunteers or as stipended participants, and as individuals or as a
part of a team. From our youngest citizens engaged in service-learning activities
in grades K-12, to our older Americans assisting those in need in their
communities, the Corporation provides "seasons of service" for all Americans.
A
meriCorps is the President's national service vision of directly and
demonstrably addressing the nation's education, human, public safety, and
environmental needs at the community level. AmeriCorps offers opportunities
for Americans age 17 or older to make a substantial commitment to serve their
country and to earn education awards for college or vocational training in return.
Up to 20,000 Americans of all backgrounds will serve full-time or part-time in the
program's first year, beginning in the fall of 1994.
Included in AmeriCorps will be the more than 1,000 young people serving
in the new Civilian Community Corps. The CCC is a national residential
service option in which participants are housed and trained together on
military bases and deployed as teams to community service sites. The CCC
combines the best of our military tradition with the best practices of local
community service corps, providing participants with opportunities to solve
real community needs while developing their own leadership skills and
receiving invaluable training for future careers.
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) will also be an important
component of AmeriCorps. VISTA is a full-time, year-long program for men
and women age 18 and older who commit themselves to increasing the
capability of low-income people to improve the conditions of their own lives.
VISTA volunteers serve in rural or urban areas or on Indian reservations,
sharing their skills and experience in fields such as employment training,
100 Vermont Avenue, NW
literacy, shelter for the homeless, and neighborhood revitalization.
Washington, DC 20525
Approximately 3,500 VISTA volunteers are currently serving, joining more
Telephone 202-606-5000
Fax 202-606-4928
than 100,000 alumni who have previously served their country through
VISTA.
Getting Things Done.
AmeriCorps, National Service
Learn and Serve America
National Senior Service Corps
L
earn and Serve America programs are school-based, and integrate service into daily
academic life. Service-learning is a method by which young people learn and develop
through active participation in service experiences that meet community needs, and foster
a lifetime commitment to service.
The K-12 Program supports school and community-based organizations that engage
school-aged youth in service. Over 275,000 students in all fifty states participate in
service activities which are integrated into their curriculum, providing structured
time for service and time for the students to think, talk, or write about their service
experiences.
Higher Education Innovation Programs engage college students in meeting pressing
community needs. Higher education projects support high-quality community
service and service-learning initiatives at colleges and universities across the nation.
Some are student-run; some are faculty-led; many are integrated with academic study.
As essential parts of the college experience, these efforts will create a new generation
of leaders committed to service.
N
ational Senior Service Corps utilizes the skills, talents, and experience of older
Americans in addressing urgent issues facing the nation. Together these programs
involve over 470,000 volunteers who serve in 1,223 local projects and devote an annual
total of over 111 million hours of service to their local communities.
The Foster Grandparent Program offers low-income persons age 60 and over the
opportunity to serve one-on-one with children and young people who have special
needs, including teen parents, boarder babies and those who are abused and
neglected. Over 23,000 Foster Grandparents serve twenty hours a week in volunteer
stations such as hospitals, public schools, day care centers and correctional
institutions.
The Senior Companion Program volunteers are low-income men and women age
60 and over. Senior Companions provide individualized support and assistance to
other adults, primarily the homebound elderly. Their services help the homebound
achieve and maintain their highest level of independent living. Approximately 13,000
Senior Companions provide disability assistance, home management assistance, and
social and recreational companionship to approximately 32,000 individuals each
year.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is a network of 430,000
Americans, age 55 and up, who perform a wide range of volunteer services that
meet real community needs and effectively use their skills, interests, and experience.
RSVP is the Corporation's largest service program, providing communities with
volunteers diverse in experience, interest, income, and education, and ready to take
on the challenges facing the country.
NAI A EFRICE
AmeriCorps National Service
CORPORATION
FOR NATIONAL
AMERICORPS NATIONAL PRIORITIES
SERVICE
AmeriCorps is the new national service movement which will engage Americans of all ages
and backgrounds, especially young people, in full or part-time service that gets things done
in communities across the nation. AmeriCorps Members will perform service that will have
a direct and demonstrable impact in four critical issue areas: education, public safety, human
needs, and the environment.
By the end of the year, up to 20,000 AmeriCorps participants will be getting things done by
meeting the critical needs within these national priorities:
EDUCATION
School Readiness: furthering early childhood development
Getting Things Done:
Improving the quality and availability of child development programs by
working in day care and Head Start centers and preschool programs
Teaching literacy and other basic skills to parents of young children so that
they can help their children learn
Helping teen parents stay in school by proving needed services such as child care
School Success: aiding the educational achievement of school-aged youth and
adults who lack basic education skills
Getting Things Done:
Working in schools with high concentrations of low-income students
Mentoring, tutoring, and providing after-school and summer learning
opportunities
Coordinating service-learning activities for K-12 students
PUBLIC SAFETY
Crime Prevention: reducing the incidence of violence
Getting Things Done:
Reducing crimes against youth by making schools safe, creating safe havens,
providing training in conflict resolution, and involving youth in prevention
1100 Vermont Avenue, NW
efforts
Washington. DC 20525
Providing substance abuse counseling and education
Telephone 202-606-5000
Developing specific crime prevention strategies targeted at key locations such as
Fax 202-606-4928
playgrounds, public transportation points, and other public gathering places
Getting Things Done.
AmeriCorps, National Service
Learn and Serve America
National Senior Service Corps
Crime Control: improving criminal justice services, law enforcement, and victim
services
Getting Things Done:
Enhancing community policing efforts by working with local law enforcement
Reducing specific crime problems such as drug dealing, domestic violence, crimes motivated
by bias, crimes against senior citizens, and child abuse
Improving services available for victims of crime and strengthening innovative criminal
justice programs such as neighborhood courts and community restitution
HUMAN NEEDS
Health: providing independent living assistance, home-and community-based
health care
Getting Things Done:
Providing independent living assistance and health care to the homebound elderly, people
with disabilities, and people living with AIDS
Improving the health of low-income communities by offering preventive health services
through community health clinics
Offering prenatal care, parenting education, and health care to families of young children
through home visits
Home: rebuilding neighborhoods and helping people who are homeless
Getting Things Done:
Helping people who are homeless by providing shelter support, assisting in moving into
permanent housing, and related services
Renovating and rehabilitating low-income housing
Helping individuals move from public assistance and into self-sufficiency by providing job
training, literacy tutoring, and other services
ENVIRONMENT
Neighborhood Environment: reducing community environmental hazards
Getting Things Done:
Revitalizing neighborhoods by creating and maintaining recreation areas, green spaces, and
community gardens
Eliminating environmental risks through education, testing, and cleanup
Reducing waste through energy efficiency efforts, recycling, and other conservation
measures
Natural Environment: conserving, restoring, and sustaining natural habitats
Getting Things Done:
Conserving and restoring public lands, forests, rivers, streams and wetlands
Making parks more accessible through trail maintenance, infrastructure improvements
Sampling, mapping, monitoring, and recording air and water quality and status of
groundwater, land, plan, and animal resources
AMERICORPS
WHAT IS AMERICORPS?
AM I ELIGIBLE TO JOIN?
WHERE WOULD I SERVE?
CAMPUS TOUR '94
AmeriCorps is the new
AmeriCorps Members
AmeriCorps Members
National Service Movement
will be selected from all
might serve right in their
WANT TO KNOW
initiated by President
backgrounds and ages...and
own communities or in any
MORE ABOUT
Clinton and passed by the
AMERICORPS WILL LOOK
other part of the country
AMERICORPS????
Congress last September
LIKE AMERICA You are
Right now AmeriCorps is
AmeriCorps will involve
eligible if you are a U.S.
conducting a nationwide
HERE ARE SOME FACTS
predominately college-age
citizen or a legal resident
competition to select
young people and it will
YOU NEED TO KNOW
if you are 17 years or
community-based programs
create a massive domestic
ABOUT HOW YOU CAN
older if you are willing to
which will run service projects
Peace Corps to
change your country by
and make up the AmeriCorps
CHANGE AMERICA IIII
GET THINGS DONE in
caring for your
National Service Network.
our urban and rural
community and if you are
AMERICORPS
communities across the
ready to GET THINGS
IS NOT JUST ANOTHER
country AmeriCorps will
DONE!!!!
GOVERNMENT PROGRAM
be launched in
IT'S A GRASSROOTS
SEPTEMBER OF 1994
WHEN WOULD I SERVE?
MOVEMENT!!!!
SERVICE
and by the end of the
AmeriCorps Members will
year as many as 20,000
serve for one or two years in
HOW DO I JOIN?
young Americans will be
exchange for education
The AmeriCorps National
meeting the critical
benefits right after
Service Network of
needs of COMMUNITIES
HIGH SCHOOL
programs will be announced
EVERYWHERE!!!!
OR DURING COLLEGE
soon AmeriCorps
OR AFTER COLLEGE!!!!
Members will be recruited
HOW WOULD I SERVE?
locally and nationally
If you are an AmeriCorps
WHAT DO YOU
beginning this
Member...your job will be
MEAN BY EDUCATION
summer and AmeriCorps
all about community
BENEFITS ?
will be launched across the
responsibility and
In exchange for your
country this fall
educational opportunity
service you will receive a
AMERICORPS
In exchange for college/
stipend/salary...health
COMING SOON TO
vocational tuition or student
care and an education
COMMUNITIES
loan repayment. you will
benefit of $4,725 per year
EVERYWHERE!!!!
have THE TIME OF YOUR
TO FINANCE YOUR
LIFE doing direct and
TUITION OR PAY BACK
WHAT DO I DO NOW?
demonstrable service to
YOUR STUDENT
Learn more about
meet the EDUCATION,
LOANS!!!!
AmeriCorps and how you
PUBLIC SAFETY, HUMAN,
might get involved by
AND ENVIRONMENTAL
calling the
NEEDS OF YOUR
AmeriCorps Hotline
COMMUNITY!!!!
1-800-94-ACORPS
TDD 1-800-833-3722
AMERICORPS
COMING SOON TO COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE
RICO
M
AmeriCorps is the new domestic
Learn more about
Peace Corps where thousands of young
AmeriCorps
people will soon be getting things done
and how you might
SERVICE
through service in exchange for help in
get involved
financing their higher education or
repaying their student loans.
by calling the
Starting this fall, thousands of
AmeriCorps Hotline
AmeriCorps members will fan out across
1-800-94-ACORPS
the nation to meet the needs of
communities everywhere. And the kinds
of things they will help get done can truly
change America-things like immunizing
our infants tutoring our teenagers
bouth Carps members
keeping our schools safe restoring our
with the President at the
White House for the signing
natural resources and securing more
Imeric ares National
independent lives for our ill and our
crrice legistation.
elderly.
CIVILIAN
NATIONAL CIVILIAN COMMUNITY CORPS
NATIONAL
10
AN AMERICORPS PROGRAM
CORPS
Fact Sheet
AN AMERICORPS PROGRAM
THE PROGRAM:
A
new residential service program, National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) expands opportunities for
young Americans to work in teams to meet critical needs in urban and rural communities. Drawing on the
best methods used by civilian service projects, NCCC adds the experience of the Armed Forces in motivating and
training American youth.
THE CORPS:
C
orps members live dormitory-style and train together at military bases. Training - using service learning
methods - is focused on leadership, team building, citizenship and physical conditioning. Skills for specific
projects are taught before corps members begin their community efforts. Corps members, working in teams of
ten, are expected to provide leadership and day-to-day project planning.
ELIGIBILITY:
N
CCC is open to young adults 18-24 willing to commit to an 11-month program of service. An 8-week sum-
mer program is planned for ages 14-17. Corps members must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.
Selection is based primarily on an application and personal references. Part of NCCC's mission is demonstrating
the strength that diversity gives to an organization.
SERVICES:
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CCC focuses on projects that protect and conserve natural resources, promote public safety and help meet
the educational and human needs of children, older persons and others in a community. Many corps
members are trained for disaster relief and recovery projects.
BENEFITS:
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orps members receive lodging, meals, uniforms, health care, child care, job skill training and earn an $8,000
living allowance over 11 months of service. NCCC also provides an education award of $4,725; or, a corps
member can choose a cash award of $2,362. The real compensation for corps members comes from having as
much responsibility and as many challenges as they can handle. The NCCC experience is expected to help mem-
bers become skilled leaders committed to their communities.
ABOUT AMERICORPS:
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meriCorps is the name for the new national service programs created by the Congress and President Clinton
as part of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The NCCC is part of AmeriCorps. Up
to 20,000 Americans will serve in AmeriCorps by early 1995.
FOR MORE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL:
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CCC, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20525
1-800-94-ACORPS, (202) 606-5000
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