[Community-service] {Disarmed} Fwd: Creating Smart, Well-Prepared, and Healthy Communities

[Darian Smith]

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> From: "National Service Press Office" <pressoffice at delivery.nationalservice.gov>
> Subject: Creating Smart, Well-Prepared, and Healthy Communities
> Date: March 21, 2014 at 3:01:59 PM PDT
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> Dear Colleagues and Communicators,
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> This week's updates showcase the amazing contributions that our members make to America's classrooms, "green" industries, and communities.
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> Also, we're very excited to share that more than 1,000 mayors have signed up to participate in the second annual Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service on April 1! Thanks to all of you for helping to get the word out. 
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> Thanks and have a terrific weekend.
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> -- The External Affairs Team
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> P.S. -- Look ahead to April: Environmental stewardship gets the spotlight next month as our monthly theme for the AmeriCorps 20th anniversary celebration.  
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> Serving America’s Students: Across the country, AmeriCorps is helping students reach their full potential. A new study released this week demonstrates what we already know: AmeriCorps members give elementary students a big boost in school.
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> The independent study of Minnesota Reading Corps, an initiative of ServeMinnesota, shows that the average kindergarten student with an AmeriCorps tutor performed twice as well as students without one.
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> Minnesota’s successful model is now being replicated in California, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Dakota, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Altogether, more than 1,250 AmeriCorps members are using the Reading Corps model to serve 35,000 students throughout the country.
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> Making A Difference: Every year, millions of Americans suffer the effects of natural and man-made disasters. In addition to working directly with survivors, AmeriCorps members serving with FEMA Corps lead emergency preparedness activities and support recovery centers.
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> FEMA Corps, a joint program between FEMA and the Corporation for National and Community Service, engages young people ages 18-24 in full-time 10-month service terms.
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> Want to know what it’s like to serve in FEMA Corps? Watch this new video and share it with your friends and family. The application deadline for the next FEMA Corps class is April 1 - learn more!
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> Celebrating Service Champions: Through national service, we train our members in conservation, build an ethic of environmental stewardship, and support successful science-based conservation strategies.
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> Earlier this week, the White House celebrated members of the national service community who inspire others to reconnect to the outdoors. AmeriCorps alums Dr. Benjamin Blonder and Jon Brito were among the honorees. So were Anthony “Chako” Ciocco, a crew leader with AmeriCorps' Ancestral Lands Program at Southwest Conservation Corps, and Andy Hart, executive director of the Nevada Outdoor School AmeriCorps program.
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> Building Healthier Communities: National service members engage youth in physical activity, provide in-home services to seniors, and connect people with programs and information that help them lead healthier lives.
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> AmeriCorps member Herbert E. Jackson, Jr., a U.S. Air Force veteran, serves as a volunteer coordinator for Workshops, Inc. This Alabama nonprofit provides job training for people with disabilities. And to help break the cycle of unhealthy food consumption, Jackson and other participants are helping to migrate its Food Service Training Program to a new Healthy Living Initiative.
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> National Service in the News
> Senior Corps
> FM Mayor Salutes Service of Seniors
> Fort Madison Daily Democrat (IA), March 19, 2014
> Fort Madison Mayor Brad Randolph joined Jimmy Wendorf and RSVP and more than 1,000 mayors across the country for the second annual Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service,  a nationwide bipartisan effort that highlights the impact of national service in tackling city problems.
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> Volunteers to visit Riverside
> The Messenger (IA), March 16, 2014
> Retired Senior Volunteer Program members are visiting Riverside Early Learning Center every Thursday for eight weeks to read its students.
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> Seniors find new meaning and purpose in life through volunteering
> Heritage.com (MI), March 17, 2014
> For others, that gets boring and they yearn for something fulfilling. Scores of these people have already become part of a new experience by signing up with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program through Catholic Social Services in Ann Arbor.
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> AmeriCorps
> Volunteers help renovate home of 82-year-old Korean War veteran
> Statesman Journal (OR), March 18, 2014
> Renovations to his home were supported by the Sears’ Heroes at Home Program, which worked locally with Rebuilding Together Central Alabama and AmeriCorps…RTCA, Exelis Action Corps and AmeriCorps assisted in the home repairs.
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> AmeriCorps VISTA
> Taking a Different Path
> Ole Miss News (MS), March 17, 2014
> Nine students and three AmeriCorps VISTA participants participated in educational tours and a variety of community service projects that benefitted them and communities throughout the region.
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> AmeriCorps NCCC
> NCCC celebrates 20 years of AmeriCorps as Class XX begins service
> Vinton (IA), March 18, 2014
> Throughout 2014, the North Central Region Campus of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps. The campus formally inducted its Class XX members on Friday, with its traditional ceremony. The special speaker was Asim Mishra of Chicago, who worked with Michelle and Barack Obama at the Public Allies organization in Chicago before become the presidential appointee as the Chief of Staff for NCCC.
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> National Service Blog
> FEMA Corps: Making a Difference When it Matters Most
> By Kate Raftery
> NationalService.gov, March 20, 2014
> Just two years ago FEMA and the Corporation for National and Community Service’s AmeriCorps NCCC program launched a unique program called FEMA Corps. FEMA Corps provides Americans, age 18-24, with an opportunity to help people recover from disasters.
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