Posts Tagged ‘ More Peace Corps ’
More Peace Corps may be in the stars — and the budget. Yesterday evening, Jonathan Pearson of the National Peace Corps Association’s Advocacy Program announced that According to Congressman Sam Farr, speaking tonight at an event in Washington to celebrate the Peace Corps, negotiations on the State/Foreign Operations Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations bill have closed. Farr [ READ MORE ]
A few weeks ago, the House Appropriations Committee recommended increasing Peace Corps funding to $450 million. Yesterday, the House voted to approve funding at that level. The same day, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to match Obama's more modest $373.4M budget request for the agency. While the Corporation for National and Community Service — the agency that coordinates and oversees the AmeriCorps family of service programs — had a disappointing day in a House subcommittee yesterday, Peace Corps won a huge increase in funding as its supporters in the House defeated an amendment that would have only moderately increased funding for the agency in the fiscal year 2010. [ READ MORE ]
Show your support for More Peace Corps at a rally in Washington, DC, tomorrow from 2-4 pm at Freedom Plaza. Hundreds of former Peace Corps volunteers will come together tomorrow to remind President Obama of his campaign pledge to build a Peace Corps of 16,000 volunteers by 2011, the 50th anniversary of the agency. Speakers will include[ READ MORE ]
As the Serve America Act becomes law, it offers no support of Peace Corps. Legislation to increase the capacity of Peace Corps was introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this year[ READ MORE ]
Shays served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji (1968-70) and has been a career-long advocate of citizen service. The entire Connecticut delegation to Congress is rallying for Shays to get the post, after Rep.-Elect Jim Hines (D) initially spoke out for Shays. [ READ MORE ]
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Join 39 other followers
Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
