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NonProfit Times honors Service Nation Leaders
Nonprofit periodical spotlights national service by honoring leaders of the Service Nation movement.
Today The NonProfit Times announced the 2008 NonProfit Times Executives of the Year:
For their dedication toward promoting a national service agenda, John Bridgeland, president and CEO of Civic Enterprises, Michael Brown, co-founder and CEO of City Year, Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Alan Khazei, founder and CEO of Be the Change, Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of the Points of Light Institute, and Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, have been selected the 2008 NonProfit Times Executives of the Year.
John Bridgeland speaks at the Service Nation Summit
Calendar Sales Generate Funds for Peace Corps Projects Overseas
Practical gift benefits the field work of Peace Corps Volunteers and brings the world back home.
Groups of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers produce and sell calendars yearly; profits go to overseas projects, including those run by current Peace Corps Volunteers in the field.
The most established calendar of its kind is the RPCV International Calendar produced yearly through the Madison, WI, RPCV group. 100 percent of proceeds from calendar sales fund approved projects taking place around the world.
Through the RPCV International Calendar’s group sales initiative, other groups that sell the calendars can also raise funds to support their work. For example, calendars sold through the Friends and RPCVs of Guyana generate revenue for approved projects taking place in Guyana.
Another RPCV group produces and sells its own calendars — see the Peace Corps Panama Friends calendar that supports Peace Corps Panama projects.
To read more about donating to Peace Corps projects directly and the Peace Corps Partnerships Program, visit the Office of Private Sector Inititatives web pages at PeaceCorps.gov.
World AIDS Day – Peace Corps Presentation
December 1st is World AIDS Day. In honor of the day, Peace Corps will offer an online presentation (Dec. 2) explaining its involvement and achievements in educating people around the world about the causes and prevention of the disease.
AmeriCorps*NCCC Members Earn Certification through American Humanics
AmeriCorps’s conservation corps partners with American Humanics to offer corps members certification in nonprofit competency.
Also note that AmeriCorps*NCCC has new deadlines: April 1 (summer class) and July 1 (winter class).
Recognizing that a term of service is a valuable education, American Humanics (AH) offers 
AmeriCorps*NCCC corps members the opportunity to count service hours towards AH nonprofit certification.
A national organization that offers educational opportunities on nonprofit management topics to undergraduates throughout the United States, AH has been “preparing tomorrow’s nonprofit leaders” since 1948. Around 3,000 students across the country are engaged in AH programs at 70 colleges and universities. Many of these students are working towards AH certification.
(Note that neither AH nor any other nonprofit management certification is required to get a program-management job in the nonprofit sector. Some public service roles do require certification. Read more about professional certification — and how to assess the value employers place on it — on Idealist.org’s Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center.)
The requirements of typical AH certification include 300 hours of approved internship service, general engagement in nonprofit leadership activities, academic coursework, a Bachelor’s degree, and completion of one AH Management Institute (the organization’s annual conference). What this means for NCCC corps members and alumni:
- AmeriCorps*NCCC members serve for 1700 hours which more than achieves the internship and nonprofit leadership objectives of certification.
- NCCC’s extensive training throughout the 10-month term of service counts for most of the academic course work requirements.
- NCCC alumni must attend one AH Management Institute to complete some of the course requirements.
- For the remaining course requirements, NCCC alumni can take courses at AH partner schools. Louisiana State University’s Shreveport campus allows NCCC members and recent alumni to take the needed courses online—paying in-state tuition. (The Eli Segal AmeriCorps Education Award can apply to the costs of these courses.) LSU Shreveport also waives the GRE requirement for NCCC alumni taking these courses.
- If NCCC corps members haven’t finished their Bachelor’s degree yet, AH gives them seven years to complete it in order to be eligible for certification.
AmeriCorps*NCCC is the branch of AmeriCorps that is a conservation corps, modeled after the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps. NCCC stands for National Civilian Conservation Corps and is pronounced “N-triple-C.” The program is team-based and residential, for people aged 18-24. Teams travel to a variety of work sites throughout the 10-month term of service, exposing the young people to a variety of new service experiences. NCCC has been instrumental in rebuilding New Orleans and Mississippi in the wake of Hurrican Katrina in 2005. Each team is based out of one of the following campuses: Denver, CO; Sacramento, CA; Perry Point, MD; and Vinton, IA
AmeriCorps*NCCC is accepting applications through April 1, 2009, for its summer-start class, and July 1, 2009, for its winter-start class.
Learn more by listening to the Idealist.org podcast with Katrina Mathis on AmeriCorps*NCCC.
AH also has its own AmeriCorps program called AmeriCorps*ProCorps. ProCorps members serve from 450-1700 hours and earn the Eli Segal AmeriCorps Education Award (up To $4,725 for the full 1700-hour term).
The New Service 