National Service
Helping Communities Work leverages public sector funding for national service and facilitates collaborations between industry and trade associations and state service commissions, which are governor designated public agencies or nonprofit organizations. The process promotes national and community service as a collective workforce pipeline, which can advance sustainable development in the nonprofit community and across all industries and sectors.
The commissions operate at state and local levels granting more than $300 million from federal national service funds while matching these federal dollars from state and local sources to support citizen service and volunteerism in America. These funds support more than 40,000 AmeriCorps members throughout the country. https://www.statecommissions.org/
Helping Communities Work is guided by a Federal Reserve System report entitled, "Understanding Climate Risk: What We Learned from Workforce Development Professionals" (1st link below). A new study (2nd link below) released in July of 2020 by Voices for National Service demonstrates that every $1 in federal taxes invested in AmeriCorps and Senior Corps returns $17.30 to society, program members and the federal government.
https://www.frbsf.org/our-district/about/sf-fed-blog/climate-risk-roundtable-workforce-development/
