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NORWICH
NORWICH
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF VERMONT AND VERMONT COLLEGE
MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05602
(802) 223-8800
THE PEACE CORPS PREPARATORY PROGRAM
Eli Segal
Office of National Service
White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Segal,
The enclosed grant proposal was not selected for a
Summer of Service grant, but I submit a copy for your
interest. Would you like to know more about the Norwich
University Peace Corps Program? A brochure is enclosed, and
I would be happy to discuss our pioneering program further.
Sincerely,
Mitchell Hall, Director
PROPOSAL
]
Norwich University and SerVermont
Summer of Service Project
Table of Contents
Page
Letter of Support
Richard W. Schneider, Ph.D.
President, Norwich University
Title Page
1
Project Narrative
2
Budget
3
Appendix A
Resumes - Mitchell Hall, Norwich University
Cynthia Parsons, SerVermont
Appendix B
Letters of Support
Appendix C
IRS Determination Letters - Norwich University
SerVermont
NORWICH
NORWICH
4541
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSIT
The Military College of Vermont and Vermont College
NORTHFIELD, VERMONT 05663
TEL 802 485-2065
March 29, 1993
RICHARD W. SCHNEIDER, Ph.D.
President
Ms. Catherine Milton
Executive Director
Commission on National
and Community Service
529 14th Street, Suite 452
Washington, DC 20045
Dear Ms. Milton:
Norwich University is pleased to submit a proposal requesting support for a
"Summer of Service" project from the Commission on National and Community
Service.
Norwich's Peace Corps Preparatory Program (PCPP) will form a partnership with
SerVermont, a private nonprofit service learning, training and evaluation program
and two middle schools serving at-risk youngsters.
Inaugurated at Norwich in 1987, the PCPP is a civilian counterpart to ROTC
designed to foster a life-long commitment to community service. Through academic
courses, community service practica, and summer internships abroad, students gain
leadership skills and self-confidence. Following graduation, these skills enable
them to serve successfully in national or international service organizations.
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburg, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame
who serves on the Advisory Committee, wrote: "I would like to commend Norwich
University in its leadership for pioneering what I think one day will be a very
important part of education for young people. Voluntary service has always been
at the heart of America, even more so today. Engaging in a program like this is
exactly what is needed."
Since 1819, Norwich has prepared its students to serve the public interest. Its
founder, Alden Partridge, created an educational system to prepare young people
to "discharge, in the best possible manner, the duties they owe to themselves,
to their fellow men, and to their country." The generations old Norwich mission
is equally valid in society today. Frank Newman, the noted educator, writes, "We
keep coming back to the notion that the most important thing an institution does
is not prepare you for a career but for your life as a citizen."
Norwich has a history of training young people to become leaders and is committed
to its students, the community and the nation. We look forward to participating
in President Clinton's "Summer of Service" program.
Sincerely,
Richard W. Schneider, Ph.D.
President
RWS:pr
FAX 802 485-2340
BITNET: PRES@NORWICH
TITLE PAGE
VERMONT'S SUMMER OF SERVICE
1.
Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont 05663
2.
Norwich University, Peace Corps Preparatory Program
PCPP prepares students for international voluntary service
with the US Peace Corps and similar agencies. Students
learn skills in cross cultural communication, needs
assessment and collaborative problem solving. Local community
service is a program requirement.
SerVermont, private nonprofit
SV is a service learning training and evaluation program
3.
Signatures: Richard W. Schneider, President, Norwich University
Mitchell Hall, Director, PCPP
Cynthia Parsons, Coordinator, SerVermont
(See Appendix B)
4.
$948,231.00
80 stipended participants
200+ volunteers
5.
Norwich University founded in 1819, is the oldest private military university with a
Corps of Cadets, and remains the only private military university in the United States
with a uniformed Corps.
Moreover, Norwich University is the first institution of higher education in the United
States to create a Peace Corps Preparatory Program (PCPP). The program remains the
largest in the United States.
With the project detailed in this proposal Norwich will enrich its strong tradition of
service to nation and community. In addition, Norwich will continue at the forefront of
universities which combine higher learning with service and leadership to community and
country.
Forty college students preparing to give a minimum of two years of national service,
paired with 40 at-risk 17-25 year old participants will design and implement service
activities in both Washington and Orange Counties which include improving the health,
environment, and safety of many communities within these counties. The 80 stipended
participants will work with some 200 middle-school students -- 100 in each county -- as
tutors, and as co-service providers. SerVermont will provide local training and on-going
evaluation for the full summer program, including experiential activities in music, art,
dance, drama, and literature for community enrichment.
VERMONT'S SUMMER OF SERVICE
The Applicants
The applicants are: Norwich University, specifically its Peace Corps Preparatory
Program, and SerVermont, a private nonprofit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Norwich University
will serve as the fiscal agent for the partnership; SerVermont will be a sub-grantee. Norwich
University, which has an indirect cost rate of 17%, will, for this special summer of service,
carry this program for a modest 5% indirect cost.
Each partner is uniquely qualified to initiate and operate a 9-week summer of service
program within an extraordinarily short preparatory time frame. The Peace Corps Preparatory
undergraduate college program at Norwich University located on the Vermont College Campus
in Montpelier, Vermont's capitol city, includes a summer of service for each participant, all of
whom are within the targeted 17-25 age range. These college students already will have worked
on service projects with at-risk youth, and with middle-school students. The Peace Corps
Preparatory Program already has a history of service in the fields of health, the environment,
public safety, and educational enrichment. College students involved in its program are from
widely-diverse backgrounds; their service projects involve Vermonters from every walk of life.
Norwich University has an unblemished history of fiscal responsibility in the
administration of federal grants, and served as the fiscal agent for rVermont from its inception
in 1986 through 1990. Mitchell Hall, Director of the Peace Corps Preparatory Program has
served in Togo, West Africa with the U.S. Peace Corps. He is a published author, a teacher,
and a storyteller.
SerVermont has been working directly with students at every age and grade level; also
with school officials and agency supervisors since 1986, encouraging service learning to meet
health needs for children and senior citizens, aiding the environment, enriching school
experience, promoting public safety, particularly drug and alcohol-free environments, and
training service leaders. SerVermont's founder and coordinator, Cynthia Parsons, helped with
the original design of the Norwich University Peace Corps Program and serves on its board.
Our partnership is tried and true; it does not begin with this summer program.
While Mitch Hall will be the Principal Investigator, and administer the Summer of
Service Program, Cynthia Parsons will coordinate and lead all local training specifically tied to
our Summer of Service. She will incorporate the Vermont Institute for Teaching the Arts
(VITA) in that training, as VITA is the state's preeminent agency for experiential teaching.
As for implementing the proposal expeditiously, as you read this proposal, SerVermont
is providing training in service learning to the summer of service target population, and the
Norwich University Peace Corps Preparatory Program participants are carrying out service
learning projects to meet the focus needs outlined by the Commission on National and
Community Service. With your financial and training assistance, should we be awarded our
requested funds, we will be able to continue our work throughout the summer.
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SEA Change Award
We want to make it clear at the outset that we wish to be one of the programs chosen to
receive a Service Entrepreneurial Award in order to develop a network of partnerships
throughout Vermont:
(A)
Dartmouth College Education Department and its service-oriented Tucker Foundation, co-
joined with area middle schools, the Peace Corps Preparatory Program, and SerVermont.
(B)
Johnson State College co-joined with Northeast Kingdom middle school students in Derby
and elsewhere, the PCPP, and SerVermont.
(C)
Bennington College co-joined with southeastern Vermont middle schools, RSVP, and
PCPP, and SerVermont. Dartmouth's undergraduates working toward teacher
certification must be involved in service learning and a local Middle school already
provides service learning experiences for every pupil. Johnson State's undergraduates are
already engaged in service learning activities in Vermont's most rural and most
economically-deprived region. Bennington College has long required a field experience
in service learning, and through the Retired Senior Volunteer Program Bennington middle
and high school students are carrying out more than 400 community service projects.
A SEA award to the partnership of Norwich University and SerVermont would allow us
to strengthen ties among these educational institutions and cooperating service agencies, helping
to improve both the quality of the service and the number of active participants. There is
acknowledged strength in diversity; but even more strength in cooperative partnerships. There
is, of course, no time -- and no available resources -- to foster these connections between March
1, 1993, when the Summer of Service awards were announced in April 1, 1993, when the
proposals are due.
Vermont's Demonstrated Needs and Impacts
We're the most rural of our nation's 50 states. This means that every child or adult at risk
is isolated from even the most basic of services available to their urban counterparts. We're
colder than Appalachia, have less native foods available than folks living below the poverty level
on off-shore islands, have no mass transit services, and most of our K-12 educational institutions
close for the full summer. Our traditional industrial base, allowing for apprenticeships, has
shrunk alarmingly; our farms, another traditional source of employment for at-risk youth
particularly during the summer months, are declining precipitously in number; and our seasonal
service jobs, while growing, are first given to those adults no longer needed in industrial jobs,
leaving 17-25 year olds with fewer and fewer placements.
We'll begin with a core of 40 college students aged 17-25 enrolled in the PCPP, each of
whom will recruit an out-of-school 17-25 year old to join in our summer of service projects
through the local school guidance services and social service agencies. These 80 "Buddies" will
not only design service projects together, but work with local agencies in the greater Montpelier
area to meet the needs of the most needy residents. In addition, the 80 stipended participants
will offer tutoring and enrichment programs, including joint service projects to aid the
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environment, to some 200 middle school students who will be picked up at their homes by bus
Monday through Friday during July and August.
As part of SerVermont's training responsibilities, the impact of the PCPP participant
activities will be documented and evaluated through oral and written documentation with
participants, agency supervisors, and service recipients. All tutoring work will be pre-tested and
post-tested using portfolio assessment procedures in place of paper/pencil, fill-in-the-blanks,
highly-questionable measurements.
If, for example, the task is to work with RiverWatch to monitor and clean a portion of
the Winooski River, SerVermont's documentation will start with the state of that portion of the
river prior to PCPP involvement, and documentation at the close of their 8-week effort, receiving
evaluation from not only water-quality professionals, but the participants themselves based not
only on what they have learned scientifically, but their impressions aesthetically as well.
If, for example, the task is to tutor a functionally illiterate school pupil or young adult,
in the areas of reading ability in line with fluency, vocabulary, oral articulation, comprehension,
and storyline, the task will be assessed professionally at the beginning of the tutoring and at the
close, along with assessment by the one tutored.
SerVermont and VITA professionals are well qualified to provide impact information, not
only at the close of the 9-week Summer of Service, but along the way, helping tutors to adjust
lessons to meet emerging needs of developing students.
While listing the number of children tutored, the lengths of water monitored, the weight
of the debris picked up, the number of home visits made to provide health-care information, etc.
are important as benchmarks, it's the quality of those interventions which our Summer of Service
wishes to emphasize. And since we wish to include our partner youth/PCPP students in the
decisions about which service projects to undertake, we are reluctant to list just which ones will
be undertaken during the summer or, for example, to estimate the number of cubic feet of water
which will be improved through the efforts of our participants.
We will collect the important baseline data, monitor progress against that baseline, and
report on impact both along the way and at the close of the 9-week period. And we will, of
course, work closely and cooperatively with the Commission's Summer of Service evaluation
team.
Program Participants
Since the core 40 participants are already enrolled in the PCPP, recruitment by the core
40 of the 40 additional out-of-school diverse population of young adults for SerVermont's
Summer of Service will begin as soon as we are notified of our award. All 80 will be paid, for
the duration of the summer program, the minimum hourly wage, and those successfully
completing the program will receive the $1,000 post-service benefit.
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Montpelier's Main Street Middle School has agreed to participate fully with Vermont's
Summer of Service. Already a Parent-initiated Community Service Committee is at work
seeking service learning placements for the youngsters, and, as the principal Rebecca Torrant
states. "Nothing would please them more to work throughout the summer with the PCPP students
and their buddies." In addition, the Williamstown Middle School, whose principal is John
Eklund, and which has had a summer youth program in operation for the past several years,
wishes to participate with the PCPP.
A word of explanation about the PCPP students is in order. They are Norwich University
undergraduates who have chosen to enter the Peace Corps Preparatory Program which requires
them to do community service locally, to learn to take leadership for service learning projects,
to learn how to teach experientially, to do a short-term service learning experience overseas
while still undergraduates, and to commit to several years of public service after graduation,
earning by doing so forgiveness of a portion of their college debt.
Finding the 40 out-of-school jobless youth for the college students to buddy,
unfortunately, will not be difficult; they are in plentiful supply within commuting distance of
Montpelier. Finding middle school students to serve with these youth and to be tutored by them,
also, will not be difficult. Both the Main Street Middle School and the Williamstown Middle
School have a large proportion of their students eligible for subsidized lunches.
SerVermont and VITA will hire special trainers for this Summer of Service on a
consultant basis. VITA uses ethnically-diverse teaching artists in its experiential workshops,
involving participants in aesthetic understanding and how to use learning by working in an
academic setting. VITA teaching artists, trained through New York's Lincoln Center for
Teaching the Arts, work with teams of teachers, and will work with teams of young adult
participants providing them with leadership training.
The young adults, in turn, will develop service and tutoring programs based on
experiential teaching methods with their middle-school clientele. Performances by the teaching
artists, as well as those by the Summer of Service participants will, themselves, be community
service events which include audiences in and from hospices, homeless shelters, senior centers,
nursing homes, and the like.
SerVermont regularly provides training for agency supervisors, for teachers, and for
student leaders. The main purpose of SerVermont's training is to demonstrate how the service
activities can be integrated with academic coursework; that is, how to create service learning
opportunities stemming simultaneously from the meeting of a community need (chronic or acute),
and the need for knowledge accumulation by the student population.
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Service Activities
Perhaps a timeline will help with perspective.
May 1
Forty PCPP participants choose 40 at-risk youth
Recruitment begins for middle-school youth for tutoring and service-project
involvement
May 15
Eighty participants line up service projects
VITA engages its teaching artists
SerVermont its trainers/evaluators
May 21-24
Training on west coast for 17.
(SV & VITA. 7; PCPP, 10)
June 1
Choose all project supervisors at the middle schools, at the agencies, and as
counselors for the 80 participants.
June 21-25
Training on the west coast for 64.
(PCPP, 50; Agencies, 10; SV & VITA, 4)
July 5
Begin the service projects.
Begin the summer tutoring.
Begin SV & VITA training for all participants.
August 21/22 Summit conference in DC for 150 - all 80 participants, plus 20
trainers, plus 50 selected middleschool students.
August 23 Begin final week of reflection, documentation, and evaluation.
Descriptions of possible pre-chosen specific projects, and the cooperating agencies,
follow:
Hubbard Park is located in Montpelier, Vermont's state capitol. Ranger Jeff Byers has
welcomed volunteer contributions from Peace Corps Program students in the past/
Volunteers have built a tool shed, cleared trails, upgraded drainage ditches, spread wood
chips on jogging trails, painted, and cleaned up litter. Summer of Service volunteers will
contribute to the environmental quality of the park, help to ensure the safety of facilities,
and contribute to the health of those who benefit from this outdoor facility.
Peace Corps Program students have previously helped build houses with the Central
Vermont Habitat for Humanities. Their enthusiastic labor was much appreciated by
coordinators Esther and Harlan Farnsworth. Volunteers painted, landscaped, and helped
in construction. Summer of Service volunteers will contribute to making a house ready
to shelter a family who could not afford a home built by professional labor. The
volunteers will contribute to the health and safety of this family.
The Vermont Foodbank has benefitted from Peace Corps Program Volunteers. David
Morgan of the Foodbank said that student volunteers over the past school terms made the
difference for the Foodbank in keeping up with its workload. A large volume of food
needs sorting. This food will contribute to the health of hungry Vermonters. It will be
a worthwhile project for Summer of Service volunteers.
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But we do reserve the right (actually, as we see it, the responsibility) to choose specific
projects and cooperating agencies after we have been awarded a Summer of Service grant, and
after our PCPP participants have chosen their 40 buddies. We could not in all conscience ask
our young adult participants to take on service learning leadership responsibility and not give
them the opportunity to assess community needs in health, public safety, and the environment,
to determine which agencies best meet these community needs, and which agencies welcome
teams including young adults and middle school students as service providers.
We could, of course, line up specific service jobs for our some 280 participants for July
and August without their involvement in the selection, but we are enormously reluctant to do so.
We feel it is against everything we're trying to teach our PCPP participants and their buddies.
But we recognize the Commission's need to know whether or not we're describing real service
jobs and real agency cooperation, or "smoke and mirrors." Because the Norwich University
Peace Corps Preparatory Program already works on specific projects with specific cooperating
agencies, we are including extensions of these as they are proven entities.
Our Budget Narrative
We have no matching local or federal funds involved specifically in SerVermont' Summer
of Service, but we do have in-kind contributions which are sizable. They include the 40 PCPP
participants room and board, use of Norwich University and Vermont College campus space and
buildings, use of space at the Montpelier Main Street and Williamstown Middle School, VITA's
and SerVermont's office expenses, and all space and administrative costs at all cooperating
service agencies. These in-kind contributions are estimated at: $1,000 X 40 PCPP participants,
$40,000.; and $500 x 240 middleschoolers and at-risk participants, $120,000; totalling
$160,000.
TOTAL REQUESTED FUNDS = $948,231.00
1.
Participants: $219,200
80 participants_working 40 hours per week for 10 weeks at a minimum hourly wage. (80
X $4.35 X 400 = $139,200.) In addition, each participant is to receive $1,000.00
benefit. (80 X $1,000.00 = $80,000.00) Norwich University has the full capability to
handle distribution of the weekly participant wages and the end-of-service benefits.
2.
Project Leaders: $14,500.00
M. Hall, as Principal Investigator, for 1/4 year $9,000.00
C. Parsons, Director of Training, for 1/4 year $5,5000.00
3.
Other Salaries: $65,500.00
10 PCPP supervisors at $75.00 per day for 50 days = $37,500.00
8 VITA teaching artists at $100.00 per day for 20 days = $16,000.00
3 SerVermont trainers at $100.00 per day for 40 days = $12,000.00
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4.
Other Expenses: $355,000.00
a.
Transportation to/from service sites and schools, estimated at $500.00 per day for
50 days = $25,000.00. (Includes cost of rental vans for young adult participants
and for contracted bus service for middle school students.)
b.
Equipment and supplies for schooling, recreation, and service work assignments
estimated at $10.00 per day for 50 days for 300 participants = $150,000.00.
c.
Reimbursement to the two middle schools and service organizations for custodial
and food service at $8.00 per day for 50 days for 300 participants =
$120,000.00.
d.
Additional insurance for summer participants = $20,000.00.
e.
Local travel for supervisors, trainers, project directors, estimated at $20,000.00.
f.
Office expenses, telephone, postage, bookkeeping, secretarial service, supplies and
miscellaneous costs = $20,000.00
5.
National Training and Travel: $248,175.00
81 to the west coast at $1,000.00 air fare plus $75.00 per day X 9 days = $135,675.00
150 to the east coast summit at $600.00 air fare plus $75.00 per day for two days =
$112.500.00.
*Indirect cost (5% of $902,175.00) = $45,109.00
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Budget
12994
For each program (minimum of 50 participants) in the application, provide the following cost information and supporting explanations:
1.
Participant Costs
80
X
$4.35
x 10 40 hr wks
= $139,200
$
219;200
# of participants
Federal min. wage
# of weeks (minimum 9.5) 1
+ Benefits
2.
Project Leaders' Salaries
Mitchell Hall -- $9,000
$
14,500
Cynthia Parsons- $5,500
3.
Other Supervisors'/Leaders' Sálaries
10 PCPP
37,500
11 SerVermont + VITA
28,000
$
65,500
4.
Other Expenses2
Transportation, Equipment, Insurance
215,000
Middle School custodial + food + office expense
140,000
$
355,000
5.
National Training & Travel³
Participants 150
112,500
Leaders/Supervisors
81
135,675
$
248,175
*Indirect Cost (5%) X $902,175
(#)
45,109
*Federal Audit Fee ($947,284 $50,000 X $50)
947
TOTAL FUNDS REQUESTED FROM THE COMMISSION
$
948,231
6.
Matching Funds
$
Federal Register / Vol. 58, No. 43 / Monday, March 8, 1993 / Notices
7.
In-Kind Contributions Est. @ ($1,000 X 40) + ($500 X 240)
$ 160,000
8.
Other Federal Funds
$
Total Project Costs
$ 1,108,231
1
There must be a minimum of 8 weeks of service plus one week of national training and 2-1/2 days for conclusion summit.
2
Any other expenses should be included and briefly explained.
3
The travel for participants and project leaders/supervisors. Should be based on one trip to the West Coast and one summit trip to the East Coast (Washington,
DC., area). Cost of travel should include airline or other transportation and per diem, calculated at $75 per day per participants or leader, the number of
leaders/supervisors should be cited.
[FR Doc. 93-5429 Filed 3-5-93; 10:19 am]
BILLING CODE 6420-BA-C
APPENDIX A
RESUME
Mitchell Hall
R.D. Box 110, Airport Road
Warren, Vermont 05674
Telephone: (w) 802-828-8801; (h) 802-496-5856
Professional Experience:
Director, Norwich University Peace Corps Program, 1990 -
present
Adjunct Professor, Vermont College Adult Degree Program, 1991
- present
Teacher, French and Humanities, Green Mountain Valley School,
1983 - 1990
International Student Advisor, Stanford University, 1978 -
1981
Lecturer, English to Foreign Students, Stanford University,
1971 - 1978
Organizer, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1970
Translator, French Embassy Press and Information Service,
1969
Teacher, history and English, Junior High School, NYC, 1968
Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher, Togo, West Africa, 1965 - 1967
Teacher, history, Grace Church School, NYC, 1964 - 1965
Education:
M.A., sociology, University of Chicago, 1968
B.A., comparative religions, Columbia University, 1964
Publications:
Manuscript draft writer of Dr. Christopher Harrison's
Let's Face It: The Complete Facial Exercise Program,
(Martinez, CA: Chris Harrison Productions, 1991)
Co-author with Yaya Diallo, The Healing Drum: African Wisdom
Teachings, (Rochester, VT, Destiny Books, 1989)
Author of 10 articles, AHP Perspective (San Francisco:
Association for Humanistic Psychology, 1983 - 1989)
Copy editor of Acharya Sushil Kumar's Song of the Soul: The
Namokar Mantra, (Blairstown, NJ: Siddhachalam Publishers,
1987)
Editor and manuscript rewriter of Dr. Edward Whitmont's
Return of the Goddess, (New York: Crossroad Publishers, 1982)
Manuscript draft writer of Prof. Morton Kelsey's
Christo-Psychology, (New York, Crossroad Press, 1982)
Manuscript consultant for Dr. Irvin Yalom's Existential
Psychotherapy, (New York: Basic Books, 1980)
Performing:
Storytelling and Puppetry
Advisory Board Membership:
Grace Contrino Abrams Peace Education Foundation, Miami, FL
A.E.L.O. Music Group, NY, Baltimore, Dakar
Vermont Social Studies Alliance
Cynthia Parsons. The Gassetts Schoolhouse
P.O. Box 516. Chester. Vermont 05143. Telephone 802/875-2278
RESUME: 1993
1948
B.A., Principia College
1956
M.A., Putney Graduate School/Antioch
1985
Honorary Ed.D., Norwich University
1948-62 Teacher K-12 in both private and public schools
1959-61 Instructor, New Math Madison Project
1962-69 Education Editor, The Christian Science Monitor
1969-70 Education Editor, The World Bank
1970-73 Senior Program Officer, Experimental Schools, NIE
1974-82 Education Editor, The Christian Science Monitor
1982
Visiting Instructor, Geelong College (Australia)
1982-83 Visiting Instructor, Dartmouth College (also '88)
1983-88 Visiting Instructor, University of Vermont
1984
Curriculum Consultant, Robert College, (Istanbul, Turkey)
1985.
Coordinator, SerVermont; Owner, Vermont Schoolhouse Press (VSP)
1950. Free-lance writer
1969 Schools Can Change (out of print) [school reform]
1970-73 Syndicated Column, "Parent and Child"
1982-83 Editor, Vermont Magazine [University of Vermont Alumni]
1985
Seeds (Woodbridge Press) [school reform]
"Managing National Service" (Monograph)
1986
What'll You Have? (Vermont Schoolhouse Press) [recipes for non-alcoholic drinks]
1988
SerVermont and the U.S.A. (VSP) [student community service]
1990
The Purple Hills (VSP) [western novel]
1991
Service Learning From A to Z (VSP) [student community service]
The Co-op Bridge (Woodbridge Press) [cooperative education/school reform]
1992
George Bird Grinnell: A Biographical Sketch (University Press of America)
Learning Democracy in Hungary (VSP) [supplementary text]
Made Not Born: Small 'd' Democrats (Work in progress)
1993
Spinach and Zweiback: The Writings of Newell Martin [editor]
Awards:
New England Women's Press Association
Education Writers Association
Wayne State University
American Association University Professors
American Vocational Association
Eleanor Roosevelt Medal for Public Service
Fellowships:
Carnegie Corporation (Indonesia)
Ford Foundation (school finance)
Mott Foundation (community, South America; Hungary)
Edwin Gould Foundation (national service)
MacArthur Foundation (service learning)
Soros Foundation, Hungary (lessons in democratic citizenship)
APPENDIX B
NORWICH
NORWICH
and
TWILLTRY
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF VERMONT AND VERMONT COLLEGE
MONTPELIER. VERMONT 05602
(802) 223-8800
THE PEACE CORPS PREPARATORY PROGRAM
March 30, 1993
Dear Commission on National and Community Service,
As director of the Norwich University Peace Corps
Program (NUPCP), I am pleased to be applying in collaboration
with SerVermont for a Summer of Service Youth Corps grant.
Community service is an intrinsic feature of the NUPCP.
A
Summer of Service grant would provide our students with
meaningful opportunities to serve locally and to prepare for
eventual service with the U.S. Peace Corps or similar
agencies. As you will note, the NUPCP has already
established significant working relations with community
agencies and schools. Through the Summer of Service Youth
Corps we hope to contribute further to the environment,
health, and safety of Vermonters.
mitchiee Sincerely, Hall
Mitchell Hall, M.A.
SerVermont
Students in Community Service
20 March 1993
Mitchell Hall, Director
Norwich University Peace Corps Preparatory Program
Vermont College Campus
Montpelier, VT 05602
Dear Mitch:
We're delighted to join you in partnership to operate and evaluate
Vermont's Summer of Service. Thank you for including us, and for
allowing us to provide not only all local training, but to assist
you with evaluation and documentation. We understand you have
asked to be considered for a SEA Change Award in order to plan for
a more comprehensive national service program which would include
Dartmouth, Johnson State, and Bennington colleges. Again, we thank
you for including us in that partnership.
By starting with your 40 PCPP students, asking each of them to
choose an at-risk 17-25-year old as a buddy, and linking up with
two middle schools serving at-risk youngsters, you've created just
the type of summer of service we believe President Clinton has
called for. Preparing college youth to serve both overseas and
within the U.S., and helping while they are serving to reduce their
personal educational debts, is precisely what the President has
asked us to do. Three cheers to you for enlarging your college
program on such short notice to embrace seven times as many
participants.
We're looking forward to the federal Commission's training program
to be held on the west coast May 21-24, and along with VITA's four
staff, will be sending three of SerVermont's trainers.
Yours sincerely,
Cynthia Parsons, Coordinator, P.O. Box 516, Chester, VT 05143
Phone & Fax 802/875-2278
Institute for Teaching the Arts
NON-PROFIT TEACHER-TRAINING INSTITUTION
802-229-5628
P.O. Box 1512
Montpelier, VT 05602
March 29, 1993
DIRECTORS
Mitchell Hall, Director
Orion Barber
Norwich University Peace Corps
PRESIDENT
Brattleboro
Preparartory Program
Cynthia Parsons
Vermont College Campus
TREASURER
Chester
Montpelier, VT 05602
Susan James
SECRETARY
Dear Mr. Hall:
Guilford
Nicholas Boke
Perkinsville
We've read the application from you and Ser Vermont to the federal
Jean Carbonetti
Chester
Commission on National and Community Service for the Vermont's Summer
Shirley Koeppel
of Service. We are very excited about the potential for growth for not only
Woodstock
the young people involved, but for all those who will be with you and
Jack McKiernan
Putney
Ser Vermont to provide training in experiential education to your 40 PCPP
Iraj Modarai, M.D.
students, and to their 40 out-of-college collegues.
Springfield
Sandra Page
Brattleboro
Improving community health, in all aspects, and improving schooling at
Joe Post
every level is what we are all about.
Westminster Station
Ann Shriver-Sargent
Norwich
We congratulate you and Cynthia Parsons for forming this dynamic
J.B. C. Thomas
partnership, and are pleased to be asked to play such an important role.
Marlboro
EX-OFFICIO
Our teaching artists are looking forward to working closely with 80
Mark Schubart
youth, and the 200 middle school students to create and produce
President,
Lincoln Center Institute
performances to support service work in the fields of health, safety, and the
Scott Brandon
environment.
Executive Director,
Lincoln Center Institute
Sarah Warren
We will send four members of our VITA staff to the May training
Founder, VITA
tentatively scheduled for May 21-24 on the west coast.
Madeline Motta
Executive Director
Thank you for including us, and we wish you every success for your
application.
Sincerely,
Madeline Matta
Madeline Motta
Executive Director
Main Street Middle School
170 Main Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
(802) 223-3404
March 29, 1993
To Whom It May Concern:
Main Street Middle School is pleased to be included in
the Summer of Service Grant as filed by the Norwich
University Peace Corps Program. We seek out all such
opportunities to engage our students in meaningful work in
their community. We are especially invested in opportunities
that deliberately focus on the development of students' self-
esteem.
As soon as we know that the grant has been awarded, we
will work with the staff of the Norwich University Peace
Corps to select students. There are several students for
whom we see this as an important and valuable summer
experience. We sincerely hope that this grant will create an
opportunity for our kids.
We know from previous involvement with summer work
programs for students and from our previous involvement with
Norwich University that this could be a great success.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Reucca n. Tarront
Rebecca N. Tarrant
Principal
WILLIAMSTOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
P.O. BOX 505
WILLIAMSTOWN, VERMONT 05679-1037
(802) 433-1036 OR (802) 433-1037
John Eklund, Principal
Russell P. Barnum, Guidance
March 26, 1993
Mitchell Hall, Director
Norwich University Peace Corps Preparatory Program
Vermont College Campus
Montpelier, VT 05602
Dear Mr. Hall:
Williamstown Middle School is extremely grateful to be included
in Vermont's Summer of Service program as outlined in your excit-
ing proposal to the federal commission on National and Community
Service. We have in the past involved our youth with summer
service corps programs, and as soon as we receive the "go-ahead"
from you will begin recruiting students for this special summer
of service learning.
We look forward to being able to provide the children with tutor-
ing, and with service activities dealing with health, safety, and
the environment -- issues foremost in our community. We're
looking forward, as well, to the training in experiential educa-
tion which will be provided by SerVermont and the Vermont Insti-
tute for Teaching the Arts.
Thank you for including us; we'll begin recruiting pupils as soon
as we hear from you that you' ve been awarded the Vermont Summer
of Service grant.
Yours sincerely,
H John Eklund, Eall Principal
Montpelier Park Commission
City Hall
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
To whom it may concern,
This is a letter supporting the wonderful work that has been done by the
Peace Corp program of Norwich and Vermont College. Their program has done volunteer
work for the Montpelier Park System for two years now. Each year their help has been
extremely helpful in accomplishing crucial projects. Volunteers from Norwich and
Vermont College have assisted with numerous projects including; trail construction,
transplanting trees, road and trail erosion control, landscaping, removal of an old
workshed, site preparation and drainage for the new workshed, and much more.
The Montpelier Park System consists or three city parks, the largest of
which is almost two hundred acres. The amount of work required to maintain and
develop such an area, which includes miles or dirt roads, many more miles of hiking and
cross country trails that are located on hilly terrain inaccessible to vehicles, picnic
areas, and much more. This kind of area requires a great deal more labor than the park
budget has been able to provide. The kind of assistance the Norwich Peace Corps
program has offered is essential to the ongoing success of Park Management here. The
Commission is excited and hopeful about the prospects of this program being able to
expand the support it has offered us.
The Park Commission can offer a worksite with supervision, and job
training, and virtually endless number of projects that would benefit not only the general
public. Park projects include environmental aspects through; erosion control of both
trails and dirt roads, wildlife management, protection of an existing Natural Area and
updating and improving the nature trail. Safety issues are dealt with through trail
redesign and maintenance, job training, design and posting of needed caution signs, as
well as signs that provide for education and direction.
It is our sincere hope that your agency can support crucial projects through
supporting the efforts of Norwich and Vermont College.
Sincerely,
Geoff Beyer
Park GJB Commissioner
Vermont Foodbank
Granger Road
Berlin. Vermont
P.O. Box 254
South Barre
Vermont 05670
802-223-BANK
TO:
Mitchell Hall, Director
Vermont College Peace Corp Program
FROM:
Diana Thurston, Acting Executive Director.
SUBJECT:
Summer Service Initiative
Deama
DATE:
March 26, 1993
This memo is in response to your query about use of peace corp
students at the Vermont Foodbank during this coming summer.
As you know, the Vermont Foodbank is an independent non-profit
organization operating as a food clearing house that works to
alleviate the growing problem of hunger in Vermont. It acquires
food from various sources and distributes it to 200 local
emergency food shelves, community kitchens, shelters for the
homeless and battered women, senior meal programs and other
similar programs. During 1992, 745,000 pounds of food were
distributed by our organization.
The students from your organization who have participated in our
sorting program during the last school year have been invaluable
to us. Eight to ten students worked for approximately 360 hours
and sorted on average some 94,000 pounds of reclaimed salvage,
thus providing 47,000 pounds of food for hungry Vermonters.
Based on these statistics, each student working one hour would
provide 130 pounds of food to needy families. The needs of
hungry Vermonters increase during the summer months because
children who receive free or reduced price lunches through the
school are at home asking "What's to eat?". Summer is the most
critical time.
The Vermont Foodbank would, therefore, be most interested in
using as many students as would be available from the Summer
Service Initiative. We have found your students to be very
efficient and a definite asset to our volunteer program.
Thank you for considering the Vermont Foodbank as a job site for
your students.
Affiliated with Second Harvest
Food Bank Network and the
Western Massachusetts Food Bank
Central Vermont
Habitat for Humanity
March 28, 1993
To Whom It May Concern:
The students of Vermont College, through the Peace Corps Program and
Community program, have helped Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity
build houses for low income people in 1990 and 1991. They have worked
with the future family owners and other volunteers in a community
nurturing atmosphere. Their skills are invaluable to Habitat.
Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity will build another house during the
summer of 1993 for a low income family in our community so that family
can live in a safe, healthy environment. We build modest homes with no
frills, but we build with care for easy and low cost maintenance and
handicapped accessible or easily adapted to handicapped accessibility.
Vermont College students have been a great asset, to us, and we look
forward to working with them in 1993.
Yours truly,
Eather Farnoworth
Esther Farnsworth
Secretary, Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity
Box 837
Montpelier, VT 05601 802/223-2240
APPENDIX C
NORWICH
STATE TESP HORWISH
TWILLIRT
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF VERMONT AND VERMONT COLLEGE
NORTHFIELD, VERMONT 05663
(802) 485-2300
FAX (802) 485-2580
March 29, 1993
To Whom It May Concern:
There has been no change in the purpose, character, or method
of operation at Norwich University subsequent to the issuance of
the two attached Internal Revenue Service Determination letters.
Very truly yours,
Jul Assistant John Lagow 6 Director Lynn
JL:pr
Enclosure (s)
P.O. Box 9081, J.F.K. Post Office
August 9, 1973 AU:EO: EW
Norwich University
Northfield, Vermont 05663
Attn: Mr. Edward H. Sargent, Sec'y
Gentlemen:
This is in reply to your recent letter, requesting a copy of an
exemption letter for the above organization
Due to our records retention program, a copy of the original
letter is not available.
However, records in this office indicate that a determination
letter was issued on August, 1935 to the above organization
ruling that they were exempt from Federal income tax under Section
501 (c) (3)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
This ruling remains in effect as long as there are no changes in
their character, purpose, or method of operation.
I trust that the foregoing information will serve your purpose.
Very truly yours,
William E. William
WILLIAM E. WILLIAMS
District Director
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, DC 20224
Date:
In reply refer to:
August 17,1973
D
Norwich University
Northfield, Vermont 05663
03-0179424
Gentlemen:
Based on the information you recently submitted, we have classified
your organization as one that is not a private foundation as defined in
section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code because you are an
organization described in the following Code Section:
X
Sec. 509(a)(1)
Sec. 509(a)(2)
Sec. 509(a)(3)
Sec. 509(a)(4)
This classification is based on the assumption that your operations
will continue as stated in your notification. All changes in your
purposes, character, or method of operation must be reported to your
District Director 80 he can consider their effect on your status.
Sincerely yours,
Received Chief, Rulings Section
Exempt Organizations Branch
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
DISTRICT DIRECTOR
G.P.O. BOX 1680
BROOKLYN, NY 11202
Date:
FEB 06 1992
Employer Identification Number:
03-0330086
Contact Person:
DANIEL ROMANO
SERVERMONT INC
Contact Telephone Number:
C/O CYNTHIA PARSONS
(713) 780-6160
PO BOX 516
CHESTER, VT 05143
Accounting Period Ending:
December 31
Form 990 Required:
Yes
Addendum Applies:
No
Dear Applicant:
Based on information supplied, and assuming your operations will be as
stated in your application for recognition of exemption, we have determined
you are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal
Revenue Code 85 an organization described in section 501 (c) (3).
We have further determined that you are not a private foundation within
the meaning of section 509(a) of the Code, because you are an organization
described in sections 509 (a) (1) and 170(b) (1) (A) (vi).
If your sources of support, or your purposes, character, or method of
operation change, please let us know 50 we can consider the effect of the
change on your exempt status and foundation status. In the case of an amend-
ment to your organizational document or bylaws, please send us a copy of the
amended document or bylaws. Also, you should inform us of all changes in your
name or address.
As of January 1, 1984, you are liable for taxes under the Federal
Insurance Contributions Act (social security taxes) on remuneration of $100
or more you pay to each of your employees during a calendar year. You are
not liable for the tax imposed under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).
Since you are not a private foundation, you are not subject to the excise
taxes under Chapter 42 of the Code. However, you are not automatically exempt
from other Federal excise taxes. If you have any questions about excise,
employment, or other Federal taxes, please let us know.
Grantors and contributors may rely on this determination unless the
Internal Revenue Service publishes notice to the contrary. However, if you
lose your section 509(a) (1) status, a grantor or contributor may not rely
on this determination if he or she was in part responsible for, or was aware
of, the act or failure to act, or the substantial or material change on the
part of the organization that resulted in your loss of such status, or if he or
she acquired knowledge that the Internal Revenue Service had given notice that
you would no longer be classified as a section 509 (a) (1) organization.
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SERVERMONT INC
Donors may deduct contributions to you as provided in section 170 of the
Code. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts to you or for your use
are deductible for Federal estate and gift tax purposes if they meet the
applicable provisions of Code sections 2055, 2106, and 2522.
Contribution deductions are allowable to donors only to the extent that
their contributions are gifts, with no consideration received. Ticket pur-
chases and similar payments in conjunction with fundraising events may not
necessarily qualify as deductible contributions, depending on the circum-
stances. See Revenue Ruling 67-246, published in Cumulative Bulletin 1967-2,
on page 104, which sets forth guidelines regarding the deductibility, as chari-
table contributions, of payments made by taxpayers for admission to or other
participation in fundraising activities for charity.
In the heading of this letter we have indicated whether you must file Form
990, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. If Yes is indicated, you
are required to file Form 990 only if your gross receipts each year are
normally more than $25,000. However, if you receive a Form 990 package in the
mail, please file the return even if you do not exceed the gross receipts test.
If you are not required to file, simply attach the label provided, check the
box in the heading to indicate that your annual gross receipts are normally
$25,000 or less, and sign the return.
If a return is required, it must be filed by the 15th day of the fifth
month after the end of your annual accounting period. A penalty of $10 a day
is charged when a return is filed late, unless there is reasonable cause for
the delay. However, the maximum penalty charged cannot exceed $5,000 or 5 per-
cent of your gross receipts for the year, whichever is less. This penalty may
also be charged if a return is not complete, so please be sure your return is
complete before you file it.
You are not required to file Federal income tax returns unless you are
subject to the tax on unrelated business income under section 511 of the Code.
If you are subject to this tax, you must file an income tax return on Form
990-T, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return. In this letter we are
not determining whether any of your present or proposed activities are unre-
lated trade or business as defined in section 513 of the Code.
You need an employer identification number even if you have no employees.
If an employer identification number was not entered on your application, a
number will be assigned to you and you will be advised of it. Please use that
number on all returns you file and in all correspondence with the Internal
Revenue Service.
In accordance with section 508 (a) of the Code, the effective date of this
determination letter is January 20, 1989.
This determination is based on evidence that your funds are dedicated
to the purposes listed in section 501(c) (3) of the Code. To assure your
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SERVERMONT INC
continued exemption, you should maintain records to show that funds are
expended only for those purposes. If you distribute funds to other
organizations, your records should show whether they are exempt under
section 501 (c) (3). In cases where the recipient organization is not exempt
under section 501 (c) (3), there should be evidence that the funds will remain
dedicated to the required purposes and that they will be used for those
purposes by the recipient.
If distributions are made to individuals, case histories regarding the
recipients should be kept showing names, addresses, purposes of awards, manner
of selection, relationship (if any) to members, officers, trustees or donors of
funds to you, SD that any and all distributions made to individuals can be
substantiated upon request by the Internal Revenue Service. (Revenue Ruling
56-304, C.B. 1956-2, page 306.)
If we have indicated in the heading of this letter that an addendum
applies, the enclosed addendum is an integral part of this letter.
Because this letter could help resolve any questions about your exempt
status and foundation status, you should keep it in your permanent records.
We have sent a copy of this letter to your representative 25 indicated in
your power of attorney.
If you have any questions, please contact the person whose name and
telephone number are shown in the heading of this letter.
Sincerely yours,
Egg
Eugene D. Alexander
District Director
Letter 947(DO/CG)
SERVE AMERICA
* NATIONAL 40 COMMENTS SERVICE NONNIMMOO CNCS
COMMISSION ON NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
April 22, 1993
Thomas Ehrlich
Chairperson
Mitchell Hall, M.A.
Vermont's Summer of Service Program
Shirley Sachi Sagawa
Norwich University
Reatha Clark King
Peace Corps Preparatory Program
Vice-Chairpersons
The Military College of VT and VT College
Northfield, VT 05663
William J. Byron, S.J.
Maria H. Ferrier
Dear Mitchell Hall:
Frances Hesselbein
Leslie Lenkowsky
Thank you for your application to the Commission on National and Community Service to
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
participate in the Summer of Service program. Unfortunately, your proposal was not
Wayne W. Meisel
selected for funding despite its merit. There were many more quality program applicants
Richard F. Phelps
worthy of the Commission's support than available funding.
George Romney
Patricia T. Rouse
The response to the President's challenge to young people to become involved in the
Johnnie Smith
Summer of Service has been tremendous. By April 1 we received over 400 proposals
Glen W. White
representing every state in the country, Washington, D.C., and several territories. More
Robert L. Woodson
than fifty thousand young people would be serving as participants this summer if we were
able to provide support to every program applicant.
Board of Directors
External panels of peer reviewers evaluated the proposals. Selection was based first on the
Secretary of Agriculture
criteria in the application and then in context of geographic area. To demonstrate the
Secretary of Education
potential impact of national service, we have selected 17 programs in 11 areas throughout
Secretary of Health
the country to participate this summer.
& Human Services
Secretary of Interior
Your continued interest and leadership in community service is essential. National service
Secretary of Labor
is only as strong as the many quality service programs in communities across the country.
Director, ACTION
Director, Office of
We appreciate your time and energy in applying to become a part of this initial effort.
National Drug
Thank you for your commitment to improving the lives of children at risk and to inspiring
Control Policy
young people to serve their communities and the country. We will keep you updated about
Ex-Officio Members
the progress of this Summer of Service and about ways in which we can build many more
seasons of national service together.
Catherine Milton
Executive Director
Sincerely,
Catherine Cathin Mill ps Milton
Executive Director
529 14th Street, N.W., Suite 452, Washington, D.C. 20045
202/724-0600
Fax 202/724-0608