Corporation for National and Community Service - Newsroom FeedThe Corporation for National and Community Service provides opportunities for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities and country through three programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America. Together with USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation is working to foster a culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility in America.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.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1116 National Organizations Selected to Lead 2009 King Day of Service- July 24, 2008 The growing movement to make the King Holiday a national day of service will get a powerful boost from the leadership of seven national organizations selected for King Day of Service grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service.http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1115 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.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/statements_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1113 |