The House of Representatives easily passed legislation Tuesday to strengthen national community service efforts by boosting funding for thousands of volunteers in fields ranging from clean energy to ...

FILE - As President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, hundreds of new volunteers are sworn in for duty at a ceremony, ...

The National Park Service contributes more to our country than you might realize — including conservation and history in your own backyard. Not everyone lives near a national park, but most people are ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thousands of young workers assigned to disaster response, conservation projects and other community service programs across the United States were sent home this week as part of the ...

Linwood Holton, Jr., was not an obvious candidate to advance the cause of national reconciliation. He was a white son of the Old South, and grew up during the Great Depression, in Big Stone Gap, in ...

Dr. Emma Goodstein, a family and community medicine resident at Banner — University Medical Center, has been honored with a national award for her work in community medicine. Goodstein received the ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 30-year-old community service program that sends young adults to work on projects across the U.S. was the latest target of the Trump administration 's campaign to slash ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 30-year-old ...