42 U.S.C. § 12653 — Additional Corporation activities to support national service
submitted 33 years ago by Pub. L. 101-610 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 937 words · no verdicts yet
The Corporation may run extra activities to support national and community service. It may fund innovation grants, research, conferences, and youth leadership programs. It may also run special days like Global Youth Service Day and the September 11th Day of Service.
(a) Methods of conducting activities
The Corporation* may run this section's activities itself (except as (g) says) or through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements with other groups.
(b) Innovation and quality improvement
The Corporation may address urgent needs through summer programs and other activities, and may support service-learning* and national service programs, including: (1) programs for rural youth under Division B or C; (2) programs for retired employees who volunteer; (3) programs connecting different generations; (4) programs where people with disabilities serve as volunteers; and (5) programs sponsored by state* governors.
(c) Conferences and materials
The Corporation may hold conferences and publish materials to share information and improve program quality.
(d) Research
The Corporation may support research on national service, including service-learning.
(e) Youth leadership
The Corporation may support activities that help young people take on leadership roles in national service.
(f) National program identity
The Corporation may support materials -- including training materials -- and arrange uniforms and insignia meant to build a shared identity among programs funded under the national service laws*.
(g) Global Youth Service Day
(1) The law designates April 24, 2009, and April 23, 2010, as "Global Youth Service Days." The President is authorized and directed to issue a proclamation calling on people in the United States to observe those days through youth-led community-improvement and service-learning activities.
(2) At the federal level, the Corporation and other federal agencies may organize and run youth-led service activities to observe the day.
(3) The Corporation and other agencies may give grants to nonprofits able to carry out these activities.
(h) Assistance for Head Start
The Corporation may provide grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to public agencies and nonprofit private agencies and organizations that receive Foster Grandparent Program grants or contracts. The assistance is for section 211(a) projects operating under memoranda of agreement with the Corporation, to increase the number of low-income people serving children participating in Head Start programs.
(i) Martin Luther King, Jr., Service Day
(1) The Corporation may give grants to help pay for planning and running service projects around the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. These projects should reflect his life and teachings -- things like racial cooperation, nonviolent conflict resolution, equal opportunity, and social justice.
(2) Any entity otherwise eligible for national-service assistance may get one of these grants.
(3) A paragraph formerly here was repealed by a 1998 law (Pub. L. 105-354).
(4) A grant, combined with all other federal money spent on the project*, cannot cover more than 30% of the project's total cost.
(5) When figuring the non-federal share of costs, the Corporation may count in-kind contributions like facilities, equipment, and services.
(j) Call to Service Campaign
Within 180 days after April 21, 2009, the Corporation had to conduct a nationwide "Call to Service" campaign encouraging people, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, or income, to participate in full-time or part-time national service or in long-term or short-term public service in the nonprofit sector or government. The Corporation could work with other federal agencies, State Commissions, governors, nonprofits, faith-based groups, businesses, colleges, and schools on this campaign.
(k) September 11th Day of Service
(1) At the federal level, the Corporation may organize ceremonies and activities -- which may connect to the broader Call to Service Campaign -- to mark the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance.
(2) The Corporation may give grants and other support to community groups to help plan service, charity, and remembrance activities for that day.
(3) The Corporation may consult with, and give grants or other support to, nonprofits that represent families of the September 11, 2001 attack victims and other affected groups, and that promote September 11th as an annual day of service.
The Corporation* may carry out this section directly (except as provided in subsection (g)) or through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements with other entities.
The Corporation may undertake activities to address emergent needs through summer programs and other activities, and to support service-learning* programs and national service programs, including—
programs, including programs for rural youth, under division B or C;
employer-based retiree programs;
intergenerational programs;
programs involving individuals with disabilities as participants providing service; and
programs sponsored by Governors.
The Corporation may organize and hold conferences, and prepare and publish materials, to disseminate information and promote the sharing of information among programs for the purpose of improving the quality of programs and projects.
The Corporation may support research on national service, including service-learning.
The Corporation may support activities to enhance the ability of youth and young adults to play leadership roles in national service.
The Corporation may support the development and dissemination of materials, including training materials, and arrange for uniforms and insignia, designed to promote unity and shared features among programs that receive assistance under the national service laws*.
April 24, 2009, and April 23, 2010, are each designated as “Global Youth Service Days”. The President is authorized and directed to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate youth-led community improvement and service-learning activities.
In order to observe Global Youth Service Day at the Federal level, the Corporation and other Federal departments and agencies may organize and carry out appropriate youth-led community improvement and service-learning activities.
The Corporation and other Federal departments and agencies may make grants to public or private nonprofit organizations with demonstrated ability to carry out appropriate activities, in order to support such activities on Global Youth Service Day.
The Corporation may make grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, public or nonprofit private agencies and organizations that receive grants or contracts under the Foster Grandparent Program (part B of title II of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 [42 U.S.C. 5011 et seq.]), for projects of the type described in section 211(a) of such Act [42 U.S.C. 5011] operating under memoranda of agreement with the Corporation, for the purpose of increasing the number of low-income individuals who provide services under such program to children who participate in Head Start programs under the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C 9831 et seq).
The Corporation may make grants to eligible entities described in paragraph (2) to pay for the Federal share of the cost of planning and carrying out service opportunities in conjunction with the Federal legal holiday honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Such service opportunities shall consist of activities reflecting the life and teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr., such as cooperation and understanding among racial and ethnic groups, nonviolent conflict resolution, equal economic and educational opportunities, and social justice.
Any entity otherwise eligible for assistance under the national services laws shall be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection.
Grants provided under this subsection to an eligible entity to support the planning and carrying out of a service opportunity in conjunction with the Federal legal holiday honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., together with all other Federal funds used to plan or carry out the service opportunity, may not exceed 30 percent of the cost of planning and carrying out the service opportunity.
In determining the non-Federal share of the costs of planning and carrying out a service opportunity supported by a grant under this subsection, the Corporation shall consider in-kind contributions (including facilities, equipment, and services) made to plan or carry out the service opportunity.
Not later than 180 days after April 21, 2009, the Corporation shall conduct a nationwide “Call To Service” campaign, to encourage all people of the United States, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, or economic status, to engage in full- or part-time national service, long- or short-term public service in the nonprofit sector or government, or volunteering. In conducting the campaign, the Corporation may collaborate with other Federal agencies and entities, State* Commissions, Governors, nonprofit and faith-based organizations, businesses, institutions of higher education, elementary schools, and secondary schools.
The Corporation may organize and carry out appropriate ceremonies and activities, which may include activities that are part of the broader Call to Service Campaign under subsection (j), in order to observe the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance at the Federal level.
The Corporation may make grants and provide other support to community-based organizations to assist in planning and carrying out appropriate service, charity, and remembrance opportunities in conjunction with the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance.
The Corporation may consult with and make grants or provide other forms of support to nonprofit organizations with expertise in representing families of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and other impacted constituencies, and in promoting the establishment of September 11 as an annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 198, as added and amended Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 104(c), title IV, § 405(p)(2), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 840, 922; Pub. L. 103–304, § 3(a), (b)(6), Aug. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 1566, 1568; Pub. L. 105–354, § 2(b), Nov. 3, 1998, 112 Stat. 3244; Pub. L. 111–13, title I, § 1802, Apr. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 1552.)
- 1993Enacted · Pub. L. 101-610 · 107 Stat. 840, 922
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-304 · 108 Stat. 1566, 1568
- 1998Amended · Pub. L. 105-354 · 112 Stat. 3244
- 2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-13 · 123 Stat. 1552
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 101-610 on 1993-09-21.
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