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FOIA Number: 2013-0661-F
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administrative marker by the William J. Clinton
Presidential Library Staff.
Collection/Record Group:
Clinton Presidential Records
Subgroup/Office of Origin:
Political Affairs
Series/Staff Member:
Joan Baggett; Tara Burns
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OA/ID Number:
4126
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National Service [Folder 2]
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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. list
[Personally Identifiable Information] [partial] (3 pages)
04/26/1993
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Political Affairs
Joan Baggett/Tara Burns
OA/Box Number: 4126
FOLDER TITLE:
National Service [Folder 2]
2013-0661-F
rs2947
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)|
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b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRAJ
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
Confidential Draft -- Do Not Distribute
The National Service Trust Act of 1993
National service will be America at its best building community, offering
opportunity, and rewarding responsibility. National service is a challenge for
Americans from every background and every walk of life, and it values
something far more than money. National service is nothing less than the
American way to change America.
-- President Bill Clinton
Rutgers University
March 1, 1993
President Clinton's national service program will expand educational opportunity,
reward individual responsibility, and build the American community by bringing citizens
together to tackle our common problems. The President's support for service extends from
the youngest elementary students to our oldest citizens, and includes everything from part-
time volunteer activities to full-time public service jobs.
The centerpiece of the initiative is a new program to offer educational awards to
Americans who make a substantial commitment to service. In addition to this program,
which builds on the youth corps and demonstration programs of the National and Community
Service Act of 1990, the National Service Trust Act includes:
An overhaul of the student loan system. A variety of flexible repayment
options will be made available to students including income-contingent repayment --
making it tougher to default but easier to take service jobs. At the same time, the
phase-in of the direct lending program will save taxpayers and students billions of
dollars and simplify the complex system to make higher education more accessible.
Extension and improvement of programs in the National and Community
Service Act of 1990 that enhance elementary and secondary education through
community service in schools, support after-school and summer programs for school-
age youth, and fund service programs on college campuses.
Extension and improvement of VISTA and the Older American Volunteer
Programs authorized by the Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
Creation of a new Investment Fund for Quality and Innovation to support
model service programs and activities designed to ensure the development of high
quality national service programs.
DETERMINED TO BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE
MARKING INITIALS: N' DATE: 1/8/18
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The National Service Trust Program
Types of Service
To qualify, service must directly benefit the community and address unmet
educational, environmental, human, or public safety needs.
National priorities may be established to ensure that pressing needs are
addressed.
Participants may not displace or duplicate the functions of existing workers.
Participants
Eligibility
Individuals may serve before, during, or after post-secondary education.
In general, participants may be age 17 or older. Youth corps participants may
be ages 16 to 25.
Participants must be high school graduates or agree to achieve their GED prior
to their completion of service.
Selection
Participants will be recruited and selected on a nondiscriminatory basis and
without regard to political affiliation by local programs designated by states or the
federal government.
A national or state recruitment system will help interested individuals locate
placements in local programs. Information about available positions will be widely
disseminated through high schools, colleges and other placement offices. A special
leadership corps may be recruited, trained, and placed to assist in the development of
new national service programs.
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Term of Service
To earn an educational award, a participant must complete at least one year of
full-time or two years of part-time service in a program designated by a state or the
federal government. An individual may serve up to two terms and earn up to two
educational awards.
Educational Awards
Educational awards worth $6,500 will be provided for each term of service.
Educational awards will be federally funded and deposited into a national
service trust on behalf of all participants accepted into the program. Organizations
and individuals may donate funds to support national service participants in the
donor's community.
Payments will be made directly to qualified post-secondary educational
institutions, including two- and four-year colleges, training programs, and graduate or
professional programs.
In the case of participants with outstanding loan obligations for qualified
educational activities, awards will be paid directly to lenders.
Awards will not be taxable and must be used within five years of receipt.
Stipends
Programs will set stipends within program guidelines. However, federal
support will be limited to a match of 85 percent of an annual stipend equivalent to
benefits received by VISTA volunteers. Programs may provide additional stipends up
to twice this amount, with no federal match for the portion of the stipend in excess of
the VISTA benefit.
In the limited case of designated professional corps in areas of great need, such
as teaching and public safety in underserved areas, participants may be paid a salary
in excess of the guidelines and receive an educational award. However, no federal
support will be available for a stipend.
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Health and Child Care
All participants without access to health insurance will receive health coverage.
Federal dollars will pay up to 85 percent of the cost of these benefits.
Participants may receive child care assistance, if needed.
Programs
Goals
Programs must set measurable goals regarding the impact of the service on the
community and on participants.
Eligibility
Programs eligible for national service designation include diverse community
corps, youth corps, specialized programs focusing on a specific community need,
individual placement programs, campus-based service programs, programs that train
and place service-learning coordinators in schools or team leaders in corps programs,
intergenerational programs, national service entrepreneurship programs, and
professional corps.
Programs may be run by non-profit organizations, institutions of higher
education, local governments, school districts, states, or federal agencies.
Programs may not provide direct benefits to for-profit businesses, labor unions,
or partisan political organizations, or involve participants in religious activities.
Selection
Selection criteria include quality (based on criteria developed in consultation
with experts in the field), innovation, sustainability, and replicability of programs.
Past experience and management skills of program leadership, involvement of
participants in leadership roles, and the extent to which the program builds on existing
programs will also be taken into account.
Programs serving communities of need, including enterprise zones, community
redevelopment areas, environmentally distressed areas, and communities adversely
affected by decreased defense spending will also receive special consideration.
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Funding
All participants will receive educational awards.
To develop programs, one-year planning grants will be available. To support
national service participants, three-year renewable grants will be available for program
demonstration, expansion, or replication.
Administrative costs will be limited to five percent of all grants other than
planning grants.
Programs must pay 15 percent of the stipend and health care benefits in cash
and 25 percent of other costs. The 25 percent match may be in cash or in kind from
any source other than programs funded under the National and Community Service or
Domestic Volunteer Service Acts.
Federal funds must supplement, not supplant, state and local dollars.
Corporation for National Service
Structure
The national service program will be administered by a new government
corporation for national service, created by combining two existing independent
federal agencies, the Commission on National and Community Service and ACTION.
The corporation will achieve streamlined operation through flexible personnel
policies.
The corporation will be responsible for administering all programs authorized
under the National and Community Service Act and Domestic Volunteer Service Act,
including VISTA and the Older American Volunteer Programs. It will fund training
and technical assistance, service clearinghouses and other activities.
The investment division of the corporation will administer the new trust
program and programs currently administered by the Commission on National and
Community Service.
The operating division will administer programs currently run by the ACTION
agency, including VISTA and the Older American Volunteer Programs.
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Governance
The corporation will have an eleven-member volunteer Board of Directors
appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. It will be bipartisan and
include persons experienced in national service and experts in providing educational,
environmental, human, or public safety service.
The first Board members will be appointed from the Board of Directors of the
Commission on National and Community Service. Seven Cabinet secretaries will
serve as non-voting ex-officio members.
The Board will develop the corporation's strategic plan, make grant decisions,
review other policy and personnel decisions, receive and act on reports from the
Inspector General, supervise evaluations, and advise the Chair on all issues.
A Chairperson of the Board and a Managing Director for each division will be
full-time employees appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Oversight
An Inspector General will oversee programs to guard against fraud and abuse.
Programs must arrange for independent audits and evaluations, and may also be
required to participate in national or state evaluations.
State Commissions
Structure
In order to receive a grant, each state must establish a commission on national
service. The corporation will provide funding for the state commission.
Commissions will have seven to thirteen members appointed by the governors
on a bipartisan basis from among the following: youth, educators, representatives of
youth corps, older American volunteer programs, and other nonprofit service
providers, labor, business, and experts in meeting particular unmet needs.
Commissions will elect their own chair.
State agency representatives may sit on the commissions as non-voting
ex officio members.
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A representative of the corporation will sit on each commission as a voting
member and act as liaison between the commission and the corporation.
Duties
State commissions will be responsibile for selecting programs to be funded
under the state formula allocation, and in any competitive grant states may request.
State commissions must also design strategic plans for service in the states,
recruit participants, and disseminate information about service opportunities.
State commissions may also support clearinghouses, training and technical
assistance, and other initiatives to support service. They may not operate national
service programs, but may use a portion of funds to support programs run by state
agencies.
Transition
For a period of one year, existing state agencies may assume the responsibility
of the state commissions.
Allocation of Funds
States submitting approved plans will receive a minimum of fifty percent of
funds available for the national service trust program -- a portion according to a
population-based formula and the remainder on a competitive basis.
Up to fifty percent of funds may be allocated directly by the corporation.
Programs eligible for priority consideration include national nonprofit organizations
operating multiple programs or competitive grant programs, national service initiatives
in more than one state and meeting priority needs, proposals to replicate successful
programs in more than one state, and innovative national service programs.
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Serve-America
The proposal extends and expands the existing Serve-America program for
school-age youth and Higher Education Innovative Projects for Community Service.
Modifications to these programs are described below.
Service-Learning Program
Program Goals
To build a foundation for service among the nation's youth, inspiring them to
serve and instiling in them the values and attitude to serve effectively after graduation.
To create opportunities for all American children to serve our country.
Types of Programs
Programs may be partnerships of local education agencies and community-based
organizations.
Local educational agencies may receive planning grants to hire service-learning
coordinators.
Types of Funding
School-based programs will be eligible for funding through state educational
agencies, partly based on formula and partly through competition.
State educational agencies must develop state plans that indicate programs to be
funded and detail 3-year strategies for service-learning in their states. The Corporation
must approve state plans.
Programs may receive one-year planning grants for school-based programs.
Subgranting to experienced institutions for school-based programs will also be
allowed.
All local programs will be required to provide at least 10 percent of total
program costs in the first year of funding, increasing to 50 percent in the fourth.
Local programs may utilize other federal education funds to meet the match
requirement.
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Training and Technical Assistance
Clearinghouses will be expanded to further enable them to disseminate
information and curriculum materials; train teachers, service sponsors and
participants; and provide needs assessments or technical assistance.
States will also receive additional resources to train and educate state
educational personnel.
Community-based Program for School-Age Youth
Community-based organizations working with school-age youth may receive
grants from the State Commission for programs to involve such youth in community
service.
National non-profit organizations may apply to the Corporation to make
subgrants or run multi-state community-service programs for this population.
Higher Education Innovative Projects
Higher Education institutions, consortia of such institutions, or partnerships of
higher education institutions and non-profit institutions may receive grants from the
Corporation for student community-service programs or programs to train teachers in
service-learning methods.
Funds may supplement College Work-Study funds being used for community
service placements.
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Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. list
[Personally Identifiable Information] [partial] (3 pages)
04/26/1993
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Political Affairs
Joan Baggett/Tara Burns
OA/Box Number: 4126
FOLDER TITLE:
National Service [Folder 2]
2013-0661-F
rs2947
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRAJ
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRAJ
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA|
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRAJ
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
SENT BY:AFL 010
; 4-26-93 11:32AM :
*REVISED LIST (4/26/93)
UNION AND AFL-CIO DEPARTMENT MEETING ON
NATIONAL SERVICE PROPOSALS
NAME
PHONE
D.O.B.
S.S.N.
NUMBER
Service Employees:
Kathy Skrabut
898-3360
Firefighters:
Fred Nesbitt
737-8484
A.F.S.C.M.E.
Ed Jayne
429-1188
Nanine Mikeljohn
429-1199
Laborers:
Don Kaniewski
737-8320
AFT:
Jane Usdan
879-4450
Rachelle Horowitz
879-4436
P.E.D.:
*
Laura Ginsburg
637-5351
(b)(6)
Community Services:
Joe Velasquez
637-5189
H.R.D.I.
Jane Pines
637-5245
Research:
Mark Roberts
637-5160
Legislation:
Robert M. McGlotten
637-5075
Calvin P. Johnson
637-5064
*
Police Association:
Mike Leibig
(703) 549-7473
Dan orfield
Beth Moten - AFGE -
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*REVISED LIST (4/26/93)
UNION AND AFL-CIO DEPARTMENT MEETING ON
NATIONAL SERVICE PROPOSALS
NAME
PHONE
D.O.B.
S.S.N.
NUMBER
Service Employees:
Kathy Skrabut
898-3360
Firefighters:
Fred Nesbitt
737-8484
A.F.S.C.M.E.
Ed Jayne
429-1188
Nanine Mikeijohn
429-1199
Laborers:
Don Kaniewski
737-8320
AFT:
Jane Usdan
879-4450
Rachelle Horowitz
879-4436
P.E.D.:
*
Laura Ginsburg
637-5351
(b)(6)
Community Services:
Joe Velasquez
637-5189
H.R.D.I.
Jane Pines
637-5245
Research:
Mark Roberts
637-5160
Legislation:
Robert M. McGlotten
637-5075
Calvin P. Johnson
637-5064
*
Police Association:
Mike Leibig
(703) 549-7473
SENT BY:A, F.L. -C. I.0.
; 4-23-93 ; 13:28
WASH
UNION AND AFL-CIO DEPARTMENT MEETING ON NATIONAL
SERVICE PROPOSALS
NAME
PHONE
D.O.B.
S.S.N.
NUMBER
Service Employees:
Kathy Skrabut
898-3360
Firefighters:
Fred Nesbitt
737-8484
A.F.S.C.M.E.
Ed Jayne
429-1188
Nanine Mikeljohn
429-1199
Laborers:
Don Kaniewski
737-8320
AFT:
Greg Humphrey
879-4450
Rachelle Horowitz
879-4436
(b)(6)
P.E.D.:
Al Bilik
637-5351
pob carp dept.
Community Services:
Joe Velasquez
637-5189
H.R.D.I.
Jane Pines
637-5245
Hum
Research:
Mark Roberts
637-5160
Legislation:
Robert M. McGlotten
637-5075
Calvin P. Johnson
637-5064