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FOIA Number: 2013-0661-F (2) FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. Collection/Record Group: Clinton Presidential Records Subgroup/Office of Origin: National Service Series/Staff Member: Jim Kreidler Subseries: OA/ID Number: 1285 FolderID: Folder Title: June 1 Letter to CEO's Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: S 66 2 5 2 INDEX OF FILES June 1 LETTER TO CEO's INVITATION TO NAT. SERVICE BILL SIGNING SPONSER REQUEST POSSIBLE VOLUNTEERS NEW LETTERS OF SUPPORT OR ENDORSEMENTS LENERS FROM PRESIDENT To CONG FOR HOUSE VOTE ON BILL POINTS OF LIGHT/ONS MAILING CORPRATE ENDORSE MENTS SUMMER of SERVICE SITES +LETTERS LETTERS to CEO'S w/ FALT SHEETS INFO PACKETS To congress + Public GRAPHICS FOR LEGISLATION DEMONSTRATION / HOUSE RANDOM RESOMES SENT LETTERS SENT w/ PERSONAL LINE OF THANKS CONGRESSIONAL MAILING PRAFTED LETTERS FROM The President SUMMER OF SERVICE CHALLENGE INFORMATION PACKETS THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 1, 1993 Mr. Alan Seelenfreund Chairman & CFO McKesson Corporation One Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104-5292 Dear Mr. Seelenfreund: As we work toward passage of national service legislation, the White House Office of National Service wants to share with you the enclosed information about the initiative. In the weeks ahead, the President will be working aggressively to make this vision a reality - to expand educational opportunity, reward individual responsibility, and build the American community by bringing citizens together to tackle common problems. This week hearings continue before the House Committee on Education and Labor. Hearings before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Services will be completed on June 8. Mark-ups in both the House and Senate committees are scheduled for June 9. In his message to Congress transmitting the proposed national service legislation, the President emphasized the singular importance of partnerships in rebuilding our communities. In the 1990's, more and more businesses are recognizing that long term profitability is linked to a commitment to the community. Research shows that businesses which promote service have higher productivity, a more satisfied work force, and better community relations. Businesses shape the direction and values of their environment with innovative and responsible policies which unite their own success to that of their communities. President Clinton's national service proposal encourages further growth of this alliance. Your support will help ensure the success of national service. Letters to the President can be faxed to (202) 456-6420. This is an ongoing process; please let us know of your willingness to help. Nancy Rubin, Director of Private Sector Liaison, would like to know of your company's interest in national service as soon as possible. She can be reached at (202) 456-6444. With your participation, we will continue to renew our communities and rebuild our country. Sincerely, Eef.Syl Eli J. Segal Assistant to the President Director of National Service FACT SHEET NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST ACT OF 1993 The "National Service Trust Act of 1993" is innovative public policy founded on traditional American values: offering educational opportunity, demanding personal responsibility, and building the American community. In affirming these values, the initiative also rejects big bureaucracy -- reinventing government to unleash the initiative of the American people. The President's support for service extends from the youngest elementary school students to our oldest citizens, and includes everything from part-time volunteer activities to full-time public service jobs. The President's initiative will: Build the American community through a new domestic Peace Corps that brings Americans together to tackle pressing national problems. Offer educational opportunity and reward individual responsibility by providing educational awards to hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve our country. Reinvent government by streamlining Federal bureaucracies, relying on locally driven initiatives, and creating flexibility for students and competition among programs. The Act will establish a Corporation for National Service that will offer Americans who do vital work in the national service initiative an educational award. The Corporation will establish quality criteria and require measurable impacts, but within these bounds, communities will be able to design programs that meet their own pressing needs. Programs will be expected to educate their participants both in the particular skills their service demands and in the civic responsibility that our democracy requires. In all respects, the Act is designed to build partnerships - among Federal Government, State governments, and the private sector; and within communities, among the schools, businesses, and civic organizations that seek to fight common problems. Assistance will be distributed on a competitive basis and no program will have a right to funding, but a wide variety of organizations will have a chance to establish programs that serve our country. 1 Definition of National Service Meets unmet educational, environmental, human, or public safety needs. Improves the life of the participant, through citizenship education and training. Does not displace or duplicate the functions of existing workers. Organization To reduce waste and promote an entrepreneurial government culture, a new government Corporation for National Service will be established, combining the Commission on National and Community Service and ACTION. While maintaining existing programs such as VISTA, the new program makes investments in new initiatives; neither the Corporation nor the State commissions will operate them. A small bipartisan Board will share power with a Chairperson. Flexible and quality-driven personnel policies will include pay-for-performance and a 7-year limit on most tenures. The Corporation may solicit and accept private contributions. At the state level, commissions on national service will be established to mirror and cooperate with the Federal Corporation. Like the Corporation Board, commissions will be composed of bipartisan members from a variety of fields. To ensure a genuine Federal/State partnership, a representative of the Corporation will sit on the State commissions, and a State representative will sit on the Corporation Board. All programs will have to compete for support; none will be guaranteed funding. One-third of funds will be allocated by population-based formula to State commissions with approved plans for competitive distribution of funds; at least one-third to State commissions on a competitive basis for competitive distribution; and up to one-third will be reserved to the Corporation for allocation on a competitive basis. Programs National quality criteria for programming will be developed for every type of program in conjunction with experts in the field. Performance goals and independent evaluations will be required in every program. 2 An Inspector General will police fraud and abuse and perform oversight of funded programs. To encourage public/private partnership, programs must provide a 15 percent cash match on stipends and health care and a 25 percent match for other program support. Entities ranging from small community organizations to Federal agencies will be eligible to operate service programs. A broad array of possible programs will be eligible for funding: from youth corps for at-risk youth, to specialized service programs for college graduates, to diverse community corps for Americans of all backgrounds. Many other models are possible, and venture capital will be available for new efforts. Participants To encourage wide and diverse participation, individuals aged 17 and over may serve before, during, or after post-secondary education. To target program participation to participant interests and community needs, participants will be recruited and selected by approved local programs. A national or State recruitment system will also be established to disseminate information and help interested individuals locate placements in local programs. Information about available positions will be widely disseminated through high schools, colleges, and other placement offices. To earn an educational award, a participant must complete at least 1 year of full-time or 2 years of part-time service in an approved program. An individual may serve up to two terms and earn up to two educational awards. Educational awards of $5,000 will be provided for each term of service. Awards may be used for past, present or future expenses, including 2- and 4-year colleges, training programs, and graduate or professional programs. Programs will set stipends within a limited range based at minimum wage. Health and child care will be provided to those who need them. Encouraging Service by All The Act enhances the Serve-America program for school-age youth. The Act extends and improves the VISTA and Older Americans Volunteer Programs. The Act reauthorizes support for the Civilian Community Corps. The Act reauthorizes support for the Points of Light Foundation. 3 BACKGROUND ON SUMMER OF SERVICE On March 1, 1993, in a speech at Rutgers University, the President outlined his vision for national service. On April 30 in New Orleans, he unveiled the first part of that vision -- a legislative initiative creating a national service program. By offering increased educational opportunity, the program will make it easier for Americans to afford college. In return, national service will demand responsibility from Americans for rebuilding our country and our communities -- city by city, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block. A second aspect of the President's vision of national service is the "Summer of Service" -- an immediate initiative designed to meet critical needs of at-risk children this summer, while at the same time building future national service leaders. This effort will involve approximately 1,500 young people (ages 17-25) across the country in serving the educational, health, public safety and environmental needs of children at- risk. The Commission on National and Community Service, which is responsible for implementing the Summer of Service, received more than 430 grant applications from community service organizations in all 50 states and three territories. The White Office of National Service received more than 6,000 letters expressing interest in the program. The Office of National Service and the Commission announced on May 6, 1993, sixteen Summer of Service grant recipients from across the country. The programs range from a primary healthcare project for children at-risk, to a low-income housing safety inspection and smoke detector installation project, to a middle school tutoring and mentoring program. Groups that received grants are now in the process of recruiting and selecting the young people to serve in the programs. All of the initiatives will demonstrate the tangible and measurable community benefits that can result from national service. Summer of Service will kick off with a national leadership training week June 20-25. All of these young national service pioneers will gather in the San Francisco Bay Area for an intensive "boot-camp" style training to prepare them for the summer and to build a core of young leaders for national service. They will be trained by leaders from such programs as the Peace Corps, Outward Bound, Youth Build and Boston's City Year and learn how to bring their national training experience home to the communities in which they live. In addition to going out into the Bay Area and performing a wide range of service projects, the participants will be immersed in an interactive leadership development curriculum including classroom work, community case studies and group leadership exercises of the type favored by many Fortune 500 companies. The summer will end with a Summit on Service hosted by the President where he and the service pioneers will meet to discuss the challenges of the summer and lay future plans for national service. This material may be protected by copyright law. (litie 11, U.S. Code) N.Y.TIMES:05/01/93 CLINTON PROPOSES SERVICE PROGRAM TO AID STUDENTS National Service Plan $10,000 per student in school ALSO URGES LENDING grants would be available in return for community work ($5,000 per year of service). Students would also be paid at $10,000 Grants Planned least the minimum wage, and receive health care and child in Return for 2 Years care assistance if needed. 25,000 students would take in Community Jobs part in 1994, working in human services, education, By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN the environment and safety. Special to The New York Times NEW ORLEANS, April 30 - Presi- dent Clinton outlined a plan today to Student Loan Overhaul overhaul the way Americans pay for MONEY would be lent to college, offering students up to $10,000 students directly by the for college or vocational training in Government. return for two years of community service. In addition, he would change REPAYMENT would be based the student loan program to allow stu- dents to borrow money directly from Bypassing Banks on a percentage of a worker's the Government. The other major component of the income. Those with lower- Mr. Clinton unveiled the aid program aid program, to be introduced as a income jobs would have - a central promise of his campaign, separate bill, is direct student loans longer to pay. with great appeal to middle-class vot- from the Federal Government. Such ers to a cheering audience of stu- loans are now guaranteed by the Gov- WAGE WITHHOLDING might be dents at the University of New Orleans, ernment but made by banks, which used by the Internal Revenue saying that if adopted by Congress, it earn a profit on the interest. The Presi- Service to enforce loan would "revive America's commitment dent said direct aid would eliminate collection. to community and make affordable the bank profits, making loans available at cost of a college education for every lower rates. American." In 1992, banks made $13.6 billion in G.I. Bill of the 90's? federally insured student loans. Ad- ministration officials estimate that de- He said his National Service Trust mand for such loans could rise to $20 Act would be to the 1990's what the G.I. billion to $25 billion a year after five Bill was for the 1950's and the Peace years. The Government would raise Corps was for the 1960's the place the money it lends in the bond market, "where higher learning goes hand in not from taxes. nand with the higher purpose of ad- The legislation will include a pro- dressing our unmet needs." posal to allow graduates to repay tu- If Congress passes the national serv- ition loans at a monthly rate linked to ice bill this year, Mr. Clinton said, the their income, thereby reducing de- program can start in 1994. The Nation- faults and encouraging graduates to al Service budget calls for $400 million in 1994, which would cover about 25,000 Continued on Page 10, Column 1 community service jobs, rising to $3.4 billion a year for 150,000 participants in 1997. They would do minimum-wage jobs in education. the environment, public safety and human services. On top of their wages, about $8,500 a year, they would get $5,000 a year to repay college loans or otherwise pay for education and training. THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 1, 199: Clinton Offers New Plan The National Service Plan To Aid College Students Who is eligible? High school graduates and those with a General Equivalency Diploma, 17 or older, can qualify for school grants in return for community service. Continued From Page 1 tion by giving states the opportunity to to get more if they come up with cre- How long ticipants serve? ative ideas. The states would decide take low-paying community service At least one year of full-time service. which groups would get slots and the jobs. The payments would be collected National Service Corporation in Wash- How much are the awards worth? through the Internal Revenue Service, ington will simply ratify the choices. Awards of $5,000 will be paid for each year of service; students can Mr. Clinton said, most likely through A community service program au- payroll deductions or as part of income thorized for three slots, for instance, choose one or two years. The money could be used to repay tax filings. can make this offer to three people college. cans or to pay for other education or training, Students Contrary Opinions ages 17 years or older: If they will would also-receive at least minimum-wage stipends, along with work for the minimum wage of $4.25 an health care and child care assistance if needed. Administration officials said they hour for one year, the national service were cautiously optimistic that the trust fund will provide up to $5,000 What kinds of Jobs will be available? plan would have bipartisan support in toward their tuition, room and board. Congress, but early reaction was Service will be in four broad areas. Here are examples: That money, if used for tuition pay- mixed. ments. would be paid by the Govern- Education: Assisting teachers In Head Start or in classrooms. "The President's plan gets two A's ment directly to the college of the stu- from me because it makes a college The Environment: Working on recycling or conservation projects. dent's choice; money for loan repay- education or better job training more ment for former students would be Human services: Providing care to homebound elderly. Helping to affordable and accessible to our young made directly to the bank. build housing for the homeless people and our workers," said Repre- Anyone could volunteer for national sentative William D. Ford, of Michigan. Public safety: Teaching drug education seminars. Serving as a service and receive the grants regard- chairman of the House Education and less of family income. If a volunteer community service officer with a police department. Labor Committee. works for two years, the government But Representative Marge Roukema would pay $10,000 toward his educa- of New Jersey, the senior Republican tion, the maximum available under the 'on Mr. Ford's committee, said the program. The money must be used for ernment will no longer have to extend a which the Government would provide President "should be concentrating on education within five years of the serv- subsidy to commercial banks to keep all students with the opportunity to pay reducing the deficit, instead of propos- ice work. The Federal government the loans below market rate, because back their student loans as a percent- ing new multibillion-dollar entitlement would also pay 85 percent of the $4.25 bank profits will be taken out of the age of their income over time; the less programs." minimum wage - roughly $6,000 a equation and because the Government the graduate makes, the more time he The night before his announcement, year per person with state and local can borrow money for student loans has to pay off the loan. The value of this Mr. Clinton decided to slash the com- authorities expected to pick up the rest. more cheaply than banks can. The loan program, he said, is that graduates, pensation for community service from The states would be responsible for program is intended to pay for itself. freed from the pressure of large loan a maximum of $13,000 for two years' monitoring the local service organiza- In the 1991-92 school year, annual payments, would be encouraged to take tions to prevent fraud, and the National costs tuition, room, board, books and low-paying public service jobs. Service Corporation would also have expenses - at four-year public institu- Mr. Clinton directed the Secretaries its own inspector general to monitor tions averaged $7,584, according to the of the Treasury and Education to come Assistance that the programs. Any program caught in College Board, while the costs of four- up with a plan for I.R.S. collection of fraud would be removed. year private institutions averaged student loans, through wage withhold- appeals to the As for the student loan programs, $16,292. ings or some other means, to reduce Mr. Clinton proposed two fundamental The last program Mr. Clinton un- defaults and simplify the system for middle-class. changes. The first is the establishment veiled is called Excel Accounts, under borrowers. of what is being called one-stop direct student loans. Student loans are now work to $10,000. in hopes of pre-empting provided by commercial banks at be- complaints from Republicans about low-market interest rates and guaran- costs, and to deal with Pentagon con- teed by the Government. When stu- cerns that too much cash would lure dents default, the Government pays the young people away from the military banks; defaults cost the Government which has its own scholarship program about $3 billion a year. in return for service. Under the new program detailed by Mr. Clinton said his proposal, which Mr. Clinton today, the Federal Govern- is the work of Eli Segal, the director of ment would provide a pool of public the White House national service bu- money for student loans, replacing the reau, had been designed to put as much private capital being provided by com- of the bureaucratic burden as possible mercial banks. The government would on state and local institutions. grant student loans, with colleges and vocational schools working as the mid- Bones of the Program dlemen. Mr. Clinton said he would like It would work as follows: A National to phase in this program, beginning Service Corporation would be set up by with roughly $500 million in loan capi- the Government to allocate National tal for fiscal 1994 and eventually grow- Service slots to states, which would ing to cover all loans by 1997. allot them to community service The commercial banking industry is groups and municipalities. expected to fight this proposal. The number of a state's slots would Mr. Clinton argued that in the long be based on population, but the Admin- run this program would save taxpay- istration hopes to encourage competi- ers money, primarily because the gov- 198 Response to the President's National Service Initiative Corporation: Address: Phone #: Name of Contact: The Office of National Service is putting together a list of endorsements for the President's Initiative on National Service. Yes, my organization would like to be added to the list of endorsements. No, my organization is unable to add its name to the list of endorsements at this time. Please keep us informed of how we can support National Service. Please fax responses to Nancy Rubin, (202) 456-6420, by June 18, 1993.