Site Administrator
Senior Companion Program. One of three National Senior Service Corps programs. Senior Companions help other seniors live independently in their own homes and receive a stipend.
Site Director
State Education Agency (see Learn and Serve America)
A method by which students improve academic learning anddevelop personal skills through structured service projects that meet community needs. Service-learning builds upon students' service activities by providing them with opportunities to learn by preparing, leading, and reflecting upon their service experiences. (See Learn and Serve America.)
Standard Form 424 is the Application for Federal Assistance
A project undertaken by a large group of participants often frommany different programs and usually in conjunction with a special day to highlight service programs and their participants, such as Martin Luther King Day or National Youth Service Day.
For AmeriCorps state, a subdivision of a Program; For EAPs, National Directs, Tribes and NCCC, the subgrantee level
The 14-digit grant number assigned to each subgrantee
The Trust's database for members and grants. Information in SPAN is the basis on which education awards are dispatched
A 15-25 member, independent, bipartisan body appointed by a Governor to implement service programs. Duties of a State Commission include development of a comprehensive Unified State Plan for service and volunteering in the state; submission of the state's application to the Corporation for AmeriCorps and community-based Learn and Serve funding; administration of the competition for AmeriCorps*State programs; oversight and monitoring of funded AmeriCorps and community-based Learn and Serve programs, and reporting accomplishments to the Corporation.
An order that deals with the intergovernmental review of federal programs.
A cash benefit that is an alternative to the education award - an option only for AmeriCorps*VISTA members. The term is not synonymous with living allowance. (See living allowance.)
A term used to refer to the many types of service programs, forexample, the \"K-12 service stream,\" or the \"full time service stream.\"
The notion that students can make important contributions to their schools and communities.
AmeriCorps organizations that do not receive their grants directly from CNCS; instead, they receive them from their parent organization or state commissions
An operating site of a subgrantee