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June 19, 2012, 9:22 am
Washington State National-Service Leader to Head AmeriCorps
William C. Basl, executive director of the Washington Commission for National and Community Service, has been named director of AmeriCorps, the national-service program.
He will succeed John Gomperts, who left to take a job as chief executive of America’s Promise Alliance, a children’s-advocacy network.
Mr. Basl has headed the commission, which manages AmeriCorps programs in the State of Washington, for 18 years. Before that, he founded the Washington Service Corps, a state youth-service program.
Mr. Basl will report to Wendy Spencer, the new head of the Corporation for National and Community Service. He joins AmeriCorps at a time when its future is uncertain because of Congressional budget battles.
See a Chronicle article about those and other challenges facing AmeriCorps.
Send an e-mail to Suzanne Perry.
February 13, 2012, 1:50 pm
Obama Would Give National-Service Budget Small Boost, But End Some Programs
President Obama today proposed increasing the budget for the Corporation for National and Community Service by 1.3 percent next year, to almost $1.1-billion—providing enough money to keep the number of AmeriCorps members at current levels.
In his budget for the 2013 fiscal year, the president said he would also increase spending on the Social Innovation Fund, a grants program to expand effective nonprofit social projects, to $50-million, up from just under $45-million in 2012.
However, the president wants to eliminate two “lower priority” programs that the agency operates—the Volunteer Generation Fund, which provides money for projects to help charities recruit and manage volunteers, and the Nonprofit Capacity Building Fund, which provides grants to organizations to provide training and management help to small and medium-sized charities.
Both of those programs were created …
September 30, 2011, 9:22 am
National Service, NPR Face New Challenges From House Republicans
House Republicans signaled Thursday that they will continue their budget wars against national-service programs and National Public Radio as Congress hammers out a 2012 federal spending plan.
The House Appropriations Committee issued draft legislation that would provide just $280-million in the next fiscal year to the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that operates AmeriCorps and other national-service programs. It said some of the money should be used to continue the organization’s volunteer programs for older people and the rest to pay for “the orderly elimination of other programs.”
The national-service agency—which also manages the Social Innovation Fund, a grants program for effective nonprofits—has a budget of $1.08-billion this year.
House Republicans tried to kill the agency completely in 2011 budget negotiations, but the…
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