Learn and Serve America - Newsroom FeedLearn and Serve America is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and AmeriCorps. In addition to making grants, Learn and Serve America serves as a national resource on service-learning to nonprofit groups, educational institutions, teachers, faculty members, schools, and community groups. Together with the USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation is working to build a culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility.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.learnandserve.gov/about/newsroom/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.learnandserve.gov/about/newsroom/statements_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1113 |