[Community-service] {Spam?} United to Get Things Done

Fri May 13 16:52:12 UTC 2016

 just read this and thought it was a bit of a neat thing to share
> https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCNCS/bulletins/148deda <https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCNCS/bulletins/148deda>
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> United to Get Things Done
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> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
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> This week, AmeriCorps members were honored for their service in Los Angeles (see below notes from the Red Carpet) and getting their hands dirty in Flint.
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> Our Social Innovation Fund took important steps to help cities, states, and nonprofits strengthen their ability to help their communities.
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> We also remembered the terrible disasters in Joplin and Alabama five years ago. And we honored a young life dedicated to service, lost just last month in Orlando. 
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> Their service may come in many forms, but AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members across the country are united in a mission to Get Things Done. 
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> Read on and see how we're doing just that.
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> Ted Miller
> Chief of External Affairs
> Corporation for National and Community Service
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>  <http://www.abc12.com/home/headlines/Americorps-crews-return-to-Flint-to-work-on-blight-elimination-378713211.html?c=y&device=phone#.VzEWOYmpb-Q.mailto>
> AmeriCorps Gets To Work in Flint: A local news crew from ABC12 Michigan caught up with a recently deployed AmeriCorps NCCC crew this week as they got to work, helping to restore a blighted Flint community. Last month, we announced a $1.3 million investment that will allow AmeriCorps members to support state and local efforts addressing the water emergency, blight, and public safety in Flint, building on previous deployments of national service members to response operations in the area. Now on the ground, AmeriCorps NCCC Team Leader, Caitlin Minton observed, "They're so resilient, people here, and they just have all rallied together to help each other." 
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>  <http://nationalservice.tumblr.com/post/144198941437/honoring-a-life-spent-in-service>
> Honoring a Life Spent in Service: On Wednesday, AmeriCorps VISTA Director, Max Finberg penned an open letter to the AmeriCorps Family <http://nationalservice.tumblr.com/post/144198941437/honoring-a-life-spent-in-service> on the death of one of our own, Gino Nicolas. Gino’s life was claimed in a drive-by shooting the night of April 16th. Just five months prior, Gino had been sworn-in as an AmeriCorps VISTA member coordinating the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative for the City of Orlando. He was bringing President Obama’s vision of helping open opportunities for all kids, especially young men and boys of color, to his city and community. Max called Gino “the embodiment of the values we cherish in our AmeriCorps VISTA members.” We will honor his memory each day as our AmeriCorps VISTA members continue to serve where most needed.
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>  <http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/senior-corps/senior-corps-week>
> $6.1 Million to Support Pay for Success: On Tuesday, we announced <http://www.nationalservice.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/federal-agency-announces-61-million-support-pay-success-pipeline> the winners of the second Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success grant competition. More than $6.1 million in investments will advance and evaluate emerging models that align payment for social services with verified social outcomes. Launched in 2014, the SIF Pay for Success (PFS) program <http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/social-innovation-fund/our-programs/pay-success> is designed to help cities, states, and nonprofits develop Pay for Success projects, which tie funding for an intervention to its true impact in the community. The new SIF Pay for Success grantees include the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School, in partnership with Social Finance, Inc. Within the next few months, all of the PFS grantees will hold open competitions to select communities in need of services.
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>  <http://variety.com/2016/scene/news/aaron-paul-michael-b-jordan-imagine-dragons-city-year-spring-break-1201768854/>
> The Stars Come Out To Celebrate National Service:  Sony Studios’ Commissary Lawn was transformed into a high-energy and interactive all-ages party Saturday night for City Year Los Angeles’ sixth annual Spring Break: Destination Education <http://variety.com/2016/scene/news/aaron-paul-michael-b-jordan-imagine-dragons-city-year-spring-break-1201768854/> event. Octavia Spencer, a City Year LA board member and six-year supporter of the AmeriCorps program, hosted the event, with Aaron Paul, Michael B. Jordan, Sophia Bush, Allison Janney, Angela Bassett, Julianne Hough, Derek Hough, Ian Harding, Keegan-Michael Key, Miranda Cosgrove, Blake Anderson, Lamorne Morris and Max Greenfield also showing up to support the cause.
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> National Service in the News
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> AmeriCorps
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> Habitat for Humanity Helps Build Homes for Single Moms in Edgewater <http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20160508/NEWS/160509551/101040?Title=Habitat-for-Humanity-helps-build-homes-for-single-moms-in-Edgewater>
> The Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL), May 8, 2016
> It was sunny and 70 degrees as Edgewater mothers Dixie Herrera, Lisa Kenney and Courtney Williams worked together sawing wood and putting up siding on what will soon be Herrera's new home. The three women will be the first to move into their new homes with their children later this year after Habitat for Humanity bought 21 lots to build homes for local families who can't afford the rising rents elsewhere in the county. Twenty-two-year-old Austin Falter has been helping serve with Habitat in Southeast Volusia this past year as an AmeriCorps team leader, and he was also helping out at the build on Friday. "It's a rewarding experience," Falter said. "It's good to hear their story and hear how it's going to impact their lives."
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> AmeriCorps NCCC
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> AmeriCorps NCCC Restores Trails with Bear Yuba Land Trust <http://www.theunion.com/news/localnews/21908846-113/americorps-nccc-restores-trails-with-bear-yuba-land> 
> The Union (CA), May 6, 2016
> AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps team Green Two is serving with the Bear Yuba Land Trust until May 24 to help with trail restoration, invasive species removal, and special events. The Bear Yuba Land Trust was established in 1990 and works to promote conservation of the area’s natural lands as well as make it accessible for recreational use by community members. BYLT regularly partners with AmeriCorps members, local volunteers, and conservation organizations to provide learning opportunities, to build trails, and to save land for the next generation to enjoy.
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> AmeriCorps VISTA
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> College Will Get New Mentor Network <http://www.thecamarilloacorn.com/news/2016-05-06/Schools/College_will_get_new_mentor_network.html>
> The Camarillo Acorn (CA), May 6, 2016
> The Ventura County STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Network has been named a US2020 City Network coalition partner. Announced at this year’s White House Science Fair, this designation is given to 11 U.S. regions in which members have shown exceptional commitment to increasing STEM mentoring for students from preschool through college. US2020 City Network partners also place emphasis on students who wouldn’t ordinarily get the opportunity to consider a STEM career, such as those from low-income families or who are students of color. This new designation means US2020 will place a STEM Americorps VISTA member  in Ventura County to help enhance STEM education.
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> Senior Corps
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> From 8 to 80: Volunteerism Takes Many Forms in the Midlands  <http://coladaily.com/2016/05/11/volunteers/>
> The Cola Daily (SC), May 11, 2016
> Inez Speaks spends the better part of her week stringing beads, sewing quilt squares and knitting yarn — but she’s not at home in her recliner. Instead, Speaks can be found at Heyward Career and Technology Center in Columbia about 20 hours a week. The 80-year-old is at the school making crafts with special-needs students and assisting their classroom teacher with light tasks as a “Foster Grandparent,” a program of Senior Resources.
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> Social Innovation Fund
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> Social Innovation Fund & AARP Provide Tutoring Grant to Read to Succeed <http://news.wbfo.org/post/aarp-provides-reading-tutoring-grant-read-succeed#stream/0>
> WBFO-FM (NY), May 6, 2016
> Some Buffalo Public School students will soon be benefiting from reading tutors.  The AARP Foundation delivered a $200,000 Reading Intervention Grant to Read to Succeed Buffalo. A rigorous study from Washington University, involving 23 urban schools in three cities, found students who work with experienced core tutors, for a single school year, experienced more than 60-percent greater gains in critical literacy skills. “We are incredibly excited and humbled to receive this significant support from AARP Foundation and the Social Innovation Fund,” said.Read to Succeed Buffalo Executive Director Anne Ryan. 
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> National Service Blog
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> Gratitude Abounds: Joplin 5 Years Later <http://nationalservice.tumblr.com/post/144207965547/gratitude-abounds-joplin-5-years-later>
> NationalService.Tumblr.com <http://nationalservice.tumblr.com/>, May 11, 2016
> This Spring marks the 5th anniversary of the Joplin EF-5 Tornado. More than 350 AmeriCorps members from seven states arrived in Joplin, providing vital services and coordinating more than 75,000 volunteers who were essential to the city’s recovery. AmeriCorps members supported missing person inquiries, provided homeowner assistance and casework, operated donation and distribution warehouses, coordinated donations, removed thousands of pounds of debris, and managed a large-scale volunteer operation. We – AmeriCorps, Senior Corps National Service – are just one small part of a much larger community response. It is a part we are honored to play.
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