Get Involved! An Initiative of the Corporation for National and Community ServiceGet Involved! is a national campaign encouraging the nation’s 77 million baby boomers to "Get Involved" in their communities through volunteer service. The campaign is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service, in collaboration with America’s nonprofit community and private-sector organizations.Volunteering 61 Million Strong; Need and Momentum Grow- July 28, 2008 The most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever assembled shows volunteering in America is strong and poised for growth, as momentum for service grows across the sectors and the need for volunteers is heightened by the economic downturn.http://www.getinvolved.gov/newsroom/releases/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1116 Planned System Outage, July 16, 8:00 - 8:30 PM EST- July 16, 2008 Earlier today the My AmeriCorps Recruitment system began to experience periodic problems. In order to alleviate this problem we need to reboot the Corporation's servers causing our systems - including the My AmeriCorps Portal, Recruitment System, and eGrants - to be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes. The reboot is scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM EST and will terminate all actions within these systems. We anticipate having the systems back up by 8:30 PM EST.http://www.getinvolved.gov/newsroom/statements/statements_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1113 |