VII: Collaboration Plan

Intensify our focus on collaboration as national service expands under the Serve America Act.

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National service is a public‐private partnership that recognizes that no one sector can meet our challenges alone, and that we make progress best by working together. Nearly everything the Corporation does is accomplished by working with and through others – including government at all levels, nonprofit and faith‐based organizations, schools and higher education institutions, businesses – and ultimately individual citizens. The philosophy and practice of collaboration underlies all our programs and initiatives, and that focus will intensify as national service expands under the Serve America Act. As the nation’s largest grantmaker for service and volunteering, the Corporation works with an extraordinary range of organizations to help them expand their reach and impact in addressing pressing social problems. Last year, the Corporation engaged more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and our other initiatives. These participants served through more than 70,000 organizations across the country, including nonprofits, public agencies, K‐12 schools, colleges and universities, state service commissions, and Native American tribes. The competitive grants we make each year to organizations support collaboration in two key ways: first, by putting resources in local organizations that know their problems and how to solve them; and second, by engaging citizens to work with those organizations to address community challenges.

Objective(s):

VII.1: Current Practices

VII.1.a: Other Federal Agencies

VII.1.b: Governors and Mayors

VII.1.c: Technology to Engage Volunteers

VII.1.d: United We Serve

VII.1.e: Call to Service

VII.1.f: Private Sector

VII.1.g: Board Outreach

VII.1.h: Disaster Response

VII.1.i: Practices

VII.1.j: President’s Volunteer Service Awards

VII.1.k: National Days of Service

VII.1.l: AmeriCorps Video and Photo Contest

VII.1.m: Higher Education and Service

VII.2: Innovations

VII.2.a: Ambassadors of Service

VII.2.b: Data Sharing

VII.2.c: Social Media and Websites

VII.2.d: New Programs to Enhance Collaboration

VII.2.d.1: Social Innovation Fund

VII.2.d.2: Volunteer Generation Fund

VII.2.d.3: Nonprofit Capacity Building Program

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