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National Service Programs. AmeriCorps*USA--First-Year Experience and Recent Program Initiatives. Statement for the Record of Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division. Testimony before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
AmeriCorps is the largest national and community service program since the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Data from meeting with officials of AmeriCorps*USA; examination of grant files for all grantees' programs; review of Corporation program policies, guidance, and plans; random sampling of programs; and site visits to seven…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Program Costs
VISTA. An Evaluation Report on Volunteers in Service to America.
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Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1993
The Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program was evaluated from the standpoint of its impact on three groups: VISTA volunteers, communities served by VISTA sponsors, and sponsoring organizations to which VISTA volunteers are assigned. Survey questionnaires were sent to 1,250 of the 3,400 VISTA volunteers currently in service, 494 current…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
An Analysis of Citizen Participation Programs Relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500): Case Studies of the Washington County Project; State of Wisconsin; and Dane County, Wisconsin Programs.
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Salmon, Elizabeth E. – 1976
The thesis, which presents an analysis of three Wisconsin citizen participation programs relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500), has identified the adult education role in teaching and applying skills, promoting growth in governmental understanding, assisting in public planning and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Community Services Programs Amendments of 1986. Report from the Committee on Education and Labor, together with Supplemental and Additional Views (To Accompany H.R. 4421). 99th Congress, 2d Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This report proposes amendments to H.R. 4421, a bill that authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1987 to 1990 to carry out the following programs: (1) Head Start, for disadvantaged preschoolers; (2) Follow Through, for disadvantaged elementary school students; (3) State Grants for Dependent Care, for child care programs; (4) Community Services…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Day Care Centers, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
Mental Retardation: Construction Program.
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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation. – 1969
Federally funded construction programs for the retarded included are the following: 12 research centers in which biological, medical, social, and behavioral research is conducted to investigate the causes and prevention of mental retardation; 18 university-affiliated facilities for inter-disciplinary training of professional and technical…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Construction Programs, Etiology