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5/27/2011 Message from Patrick A. Corvington CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service Friday, May 27, 2011
  We are very pleased to announce that President Obama has designated Robert Velasco, II, as Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Robert will serve in this position as the President works to identify a permanent CEO to be nominated and confirmed by the Senate.

4/18/2011 Update on 2011 National Service Budget
  On Friday President Obama signed a Continuing Resolution that funds the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2011. In total, the continuing resolution provides $1.077 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its programs, about 94% of our FY 2010 enacted level.

8/5/2010 Update on FY 2011 National Service Budget
  As you recall, the budget process kicked off last February, when President Obama released his budget request for Fiscal Year 2011. In that budget, the President proposed $1.416 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service to strengthen our nation’s volunteer sector, foster innovation, and mobilize millions of Americans to solve critical problems through national service.

8/4/2010 National Service Budget Update
  Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill that provides $1.366 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its programs. This is an increase of $215.9 million over last year’s funding level but $51 million below the President’s request.

7/12/2010 Patrick A. Corvington Speech at Luncheon for the 2010 National Council of La Raza Annual Conference
  San Antonio, TX—Janet Murguía, President and CEO of NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, today announced the preliminary roster of speakers and the extensive, free family activities that will be at the 2010 NCLR Annual Conference. Sponsored by Toyota, the Conference, themed “A Legacy of Service, Advancing Community,” will be held July 10–13 in San Antonio, Texas.

6/29/2010 National Service Agency CEO Keynote at Conference Town Hall
  Patrick A. Corvington, CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service 2010 National Conference Town Hall Keynote, New York City, June 29, 2010.

4/21/2010 Keynote Address by Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, on the One-Year Anniversary of the Signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
  Keynote address by Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, on the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.

3/11/2010 Scheduled eSPAN/eGrants and My AmeriCorps Portal Outage: Saturday, March 13, 2010 Between 03.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.
  On Saturday, March 13, we will be undertaking production system upgrades between the hours of 3.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. The scheduled hardware and software upgrades will improve the overall availability of the application environment in the future. In particular, we are installing a hardware load balancer which will automatically allocate workstation based user requests to an active front end application server. This upgrade will result in better handling of user activity/connectivity should one of the application servers fail at any time.

3/1/2010 February Update on Serve America Act
  February was a short but busy month as we moved forward on several key implementation steps for the Serve America Act.

2/12/2010 Transition at the Corporation for National and Community Service
  Earlier today President Obama today formally appointed Patrick Corvington as the Corporation’s new CEO. This is the final step in the confirmation process, other than the Oath of Office, which Patrick will take next week.

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