One of 1,600 AmeriCorps*NCCC members who together have contributed more than 515,000 service hours in the Gulf Region since hurricane Katrina.
(Photo by Morgan Carey)

AmeriCorps St. Louis member Adam Rose and Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service Executive Director Marsha Kelly handle one of 12,000 Hotline calls received (as of Sept. 30, 2005).
(Photo provided by the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service. Photo by Eyd Kazery)

AmeriCorps alumni traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi to serve alongside current members during AmeriCorps Alums Month of Service campaign.
(Photo by Morgan Carey)

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On August 12, 2004, the Corporation for National and Community Service proposed new rules for governing AmeriCorps State and National grantees and launched a 60-day public comment period on the regulatory changes. Hundreds of experienced national service leaders sent testimony to the Corporation outlining their concerns with the rules. Below, you will find a variety of documents prepared by members of the Voices for National Service Coalition and others providing background information on rulemaking and the Coalition’s response:

• AmeriCorps Rule
  
• What is rulemaking?
  
• What has the President and Congress directed the Corporation to review and enhance?
  
• Read Statement by David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service on plans to initiate rulemaking
  
• Read the Voices for National Service Coalition's Recommendations for Improving National Service. Comments and recommendations offered by Coalition during the early stages of rulemaking
  
• Message from David Eisner and Rosie Mauk, Director of AmeriCorps, explaining the proposed new rules.
  
• Corporation's Summary of the Proposed Rules
  
• Frequently Asked Questions - prepared by the Corporation - on Proposed Rulemaking for AmeriCorps
  
• Read the Voices for National Service Coalition's position paper summarizing the national service network's concerns with the proposed rules. Includes testimonials from AmeriCorps programs that fear the rules, if implemented, will undermine their organizations.
  
• Experienced National Service Leaders Comment on the proposed rules.
  
• Governors, Congress Weigh In on Rulemaking. Legislators caution the Corporation that "match requirements should be flexible; provide appropriate levels of support to a variety of program motels, including full-time service programs; and recognize the realities and capabilities of a wide range of communities.
  
• Promoting Quality, Diversity, and Competition: The Save AmeriCorps Coalition's Response to Proposed AmeriCorps Rules.
  
• Experienced Service Organizations Propose New Rules - April 24, 2004.
  

Testimony

• Jennifer Althaus, Associate Director, Colorado Youth Corps Association

• P. Gilbertson Barno, Executive Director, Buckeye Community Hope Foundation

• James Birge, Ph.D., Executive Director, Pennsylvania Campus Compact

• David E. Brown, Executive Director, National Youth Employment Coalition

• Eileen Cackowski, Executive Director, Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service

• Kyle Caldwell, Chair, America's Service Commissions

• Rick Cavender, Saturn of San Antonio

• City Year Organization Offers Comments

• Linda Cohen, Executive Director, New York State Corps Collaboration

• Steven A. Culbertson, President & CEO, Youth Service America

• Sean Damitz, Program Administrator, Utah Conservation Corps

• Martin Friedman, CEO, EducationWorks

• Robert W. Gillespie, Chairman Emeritus, KeyCorp

• Liz Gruenfeld, AmeriCorps Coordinator, Community HealthCorps

• Craig K. Huffman, Managing Director, CRADLE Real Estate Group

• Irv Katz, President & CEO, National Collaboration for Youth

• Wendy Kopp, President & founder, Teach For America

• Letter from 24 Members of the United States Senate

• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

• Laura McHugh, Philadelphia YouthBuild

• Kristin McSwain, Executive Director, Massachusetts Service Alliance

• Representatives George Miller and Ruben Hinojosa, United States House of Representatives

• Terrance Moran, AmeriCorps Alumnus, New Bedford, Massachusetts

• Richard Pierce, American YouthWorks

• Kenneth P. Pucker, Chief Operating Officer, The Timberland Company

• Eric Schwarz, President, Citizen Schools

• Jason Rainey, AmeriCorps Program Director, Marin Conservation Corps

• Lynn Rippy, YouthBuild Louisville

• Representatives Christopher Shays, Tom Osborne, Harold Ford, Jr., and David Price, United States House of Representatives National Service Congressional Caucus

• John C. Thomas, Senior Program Director, Southend Community Services, Hartford AmeriCorps

• Robert Tietze, Director Philadelphia Experience Corps

• Jon Underwood, Program Director, Coastal Enterprises Inc/Maine Independence Corps

• Gretchen Van De Carr, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, Colorado

• David Voegele, Executive Director, DIAL/SELF Teen Services

• Comments from the Washington Service Corps

• Gregory Webb, Executive Director, New Mexico Commission for Community Volunteerism

• Carol White, Executive Director, Tennessee Commission on National & Community Service

Save AmeriCorps Archive

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