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AMERICORPS
AmeriCorps*State and National, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps* TCCC (Tribal CivilianCommunity Corps). AmeriCorps members recruit, train, and supervise community volunteers, tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after school programs, help communities respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining, among many other activities.

LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA
Learn and Serve America provides an "on-ramp" to a lifetime of civic engagement for approximately 1.8 million students each year. The program awards grants to state education agencies, schools, nonprofit groups, and institutions of higher education to engage students in service activities linked to academic achievement.

In addition, Learn and Serve America sponsors the Presidential Freedom Scholarships, which recognize outstanding community service each year by high school juniors and seniors.

SENIOR CORPS
RSVP, the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Senior Companion Program.

RSVP volunteers participate in environmental projects, provide intensive educational services to children and adults, and respond to natural disasters, among many other activities.

Foster Grandparents serve one-on-one as tutors and mentors to young people with special needs.

Senior Companions help homebound seniors and other adults maintain independence in their own homes.

USA FREEDOM CORPS
In his 2002, the USA Freedom Corps was created as a way to promote service and to coordinate volunteer opportunities offered through Federal programs.  As a call to Americans to devote the equivalent of at least two years of their lives-or 4,000 hours-to service and volunteering, and  together with the USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation for National and Community Service is fostering a culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility and helping all Americans answer the President's Call to Service.

Information developed from the Corporation for National and Community Service website at http://www.cns.gov/