March 26, 2009
House Approves Expansion of National Service
The House of Representatives last week adopted a bill to expand the country's national-service programs and create new funds to help charities duplicate innovative programs and recruit and manage volunteers.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act, passed by a vote of 321 to 105, would triple the number of participants in programs like AmeriCorps to 250,000 by 2014, creating new "corps" to work in the fields of education, energy, health care, and services to
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