94-20429. Flagship Television Stations

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

Flagship Television Stations

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Corporation for National and Community Service (the 
Corporation) is announcing that it is seeking flagship television 
stations to assist AmeriCorps programs with recruitment and community 
awareness.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this notice should be mailed to the Office of 
Public Affairs, 9th Floor, 1100 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC. 
20525.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Office of Public Affairs at [phone], ext. 262.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Corporation is a new government 
corporation that encompasses the work and staff of two previously 
existing federal agencies, the Commission on National and Community 
Service and ACTION. The Corporation's mission is to engage Americans of 
all ages and backgrounds in community-based service. This service will 
address the nation's education, public safety, human, and environmental 
needs to achieve direct and demonstrable results. In doing so, the 
Corporation will foster civic responsibility, strengthen the ties that 
bind us together as a people, and provide education opportunity for 
those who make a substantial commitment to service.
    The Corporation is establishing a new national service initiative 
called AmeriCorps that includes a wide variety of programs operated by 
grantees which will be local and national non-profits, state and local 
government agencies, Indian tribes and territories. The Corporation 
will also support service-learning initiatives for elementary and 
secondary schools and institutions of higher education called Learn and 
Serve America and operate the senior volunteers programs previously 
supported by ACTION. Some of the national service programs will be 
operating this summer, and most of the others will be operational by 
this fall.
    The Corporation is striving to build partnerships between 
AmeriCorps programs and television stations in order to promote 
national service. Through this partnership, television stations will 
help further national service by assisting AmeriCorps programs with 
community awareness and recruitment and educating the American public 
about the impact of national service via public service announcements 
and an educational documentary. To achieve this end, the Corporation 
requests that television stations nationwide volunteer to serve as 
flagship television stations to help promote AmeriCorps programs and 
national service.
    All interested television stations should contact Wendy Grassi at 
[phone] extension 262. Ms. Grassi will provide further 
information about existing AmeriCorps programs and how to become a 
flagship television station for AmeriCorps programs.

    Dated: August 16, 1994.
Terry Russell,
General Counsel, Corporation for National Service.
[FR Doc. 94-20429 Filed 8-16-94; 12:40 pm]
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