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P/TOA

Parent/Tribal Organization Administrator

P/TOD

Parent/Tribal Organization Director

Participant

The generic term used to describe any individual enrolled in a program funded by the Corporation, as opposed to the more specific term \"member,\" which refers to individuals enrolled in an AmeriCorps program.

Partnership

Two or more entities that have entered into a written agreement specifying the goals and activities of the relationship as well as the responsibilities, goals, and activities of each partner.

PD

Program Director

PDAT

Program Development Assistance and Training. Funds provided to state commissions to enable them to provide training and technical assistance support to their programs.

PDF

Portable Document Format (a file format used to present documents with formatting intact)

PER

Periodic Expense Report

POLF

The Points-of-Light Foundation. Established in 1990, POLF is a non-profit organization whose mission it is to engage more people more effectively in volunteer community service that helps solve serious social problems. The foundation, funded in part by appropriations made under the authority of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, works with a national network of volunteer center, corporate employee volunteer programs, non-profits, youth and family organization, and the media.

PPR

Project Progress Report, used by project sponsors and directors to report grant activities and progress via semi-annual reports.

PPVA

Project Profile and Volunteer Activity

Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future

An historic gathering in Philadelphia in April 1997 at which former Presidents Clinton, Bush , Carter, and Ford, and Secretary of State Colin Powell called for all Americans to find ways to ensure that all children have access to the fundamental resources the need:- caring adults in their lives, as parents, mentors, tutors, and coaches;- safe places with structured activities in which to learn and grow;- a healthy start and healthy future;- an effective education that equips them with marketable skills; and- an opportunity to give back through their communities through their own service.

priorities

priority

Program

A coordinated group of activities linked by common elements such as recruitment, selection, an d training of participants, and staff, regular group activities, and assignment to projects organized for the purpose of achieving the mission and goals of national service, and carried out with the assistance provided under the Act.

Program Sponsor

An entity responsible for recruiting, selecting and training members, providing them benefits and support services, engaging them in regular group activities and placing them in projects.

Program Start Date

The beginning date of the Budget or Member Enrollment Period

Progress Report

Report filed quarterly or semi-annually by subgrantees

Project

An activity, or set of activities, carried out though a program that receives assistance under the Act, and which results in a specific identifiable service or improvement that otherwise would not be done with existing funds, and that does not duplicate the routine services or functions of the employer to whom participants are assigned.

Project Sponsor

An organization, or other entity, that has been selected to provide aplacement for a participant or participants.

PSA

Public Service Announcement



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