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Americorps
  • Assists state and local communities with poverty and education programs
  • Incorporates the VISTA program
  • Many of its participants are youth
Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Umbrella organization for a broad range of current civilian volunteer service programs
  • Permits individuals to choose the type of service they would like through an interactive program
  • Describes possible programs that service organizations may join
Debate Central
  • Effects of national service on social capital, immigration, and citizenship
  • Pros and cons of the service programs
Learn and Serve America
  • Service projects for young people (e.g. tutoring) that will enhance their life skills
Peace Corps
  • Description of Peace Corps activities and foreign places to serve
  • Benefits include learning a new language, graduate school programs and a deferment of student loans
  • Application information
Senior Corps
  • Provides foster grandparent and companion volunteer opportunities for people over 60 and community service for those over 55
  • Web site provides history of program, enacting legislation, and application forms
U.S. Department of Defense
  • Overall Defense Department web site focused on current news events, the war in Iraq, and the war against terrorism
  • Use the Web Sites link for individual military components as well as military pay and benefits
United States Selective Service System
  • Current procedures for registering males, 18-25, for the draft
  • Describes what would happen if a military draft were to be re-established
  • Induction statistics since 1917
 
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