A new federal law could bring more than
1,000 nonprofit-sector jobs to Georgia over
the next five years if it is fully funded.
Georgia-based Habitat for Humanity
International could be among the chief bene-
ficiaries of The Edward M. Kennedy Serve
America Act, signed into law by President
Barack Obama on April 21. That organization
already applied through federal stimulus leg-
islation for a quadrupling of its 500
government-paid AmeriCorps and VISTA vol-
unteers and is expected to be notified of a
decision the week of April 27, according to
Mark Andrews, Habitat's senior director of
U.S. operations.
Should Habitat receive approval for its
request, the Serve America Act would allow
it to sustain that growth. "It will significantly
increase the number of members we can
bring on for the long haul," Andrews said.
A major provision of the law is to increase
the size of AmeriCorps from 75,000 to
250,000 workers. AmeriCorps is a govern-
ment program that pays workers full time
for one year who work for organizations
whose missions include fighting illiteracy,
improving health services and creating
businesses.
AmeriCorps employs workers two ways:
through national nonprofits and through
the Georgia Commission for Service &
Volunteerism (GCSV), a state agency.
Habitat for Humanity, Teach for America
and the HandsOn Network are examples of
nonprofits that receive their AmeriCorps
volunteers nationally.
VISTA volunteers' mission is more indi-
rect; they are intended to help nonprofits
build the capacity to grow.
Kwame Griffith, executive director of
Teach for America's Atlanta chapter, said
his organization has 250 AmeriCorps
volunteers -- a number that he hopes to
double by 2015.
Griffith said he is thrilled by statistics
like the one that 25 percent of the
graduating seniors at Spelman
College have applied to work with
Teach for America.
John Turner, executive director
of the GCSV, said his agency cur-
rently employs 530 AmeriCorps
volunteers at 15 different non-
profits. Hands On Atlanta has
more than 100, he said, while
Inner Harbor, a Douglas County
group that treats children ages
6-21 who deal with psychiatric illness
and impairment in behavioral and social
functioning, has between 12 and 14.
Turner said the Douglas County program
had 400 applicants for those few spots.
"Our current programs are experiencing
an increase in the interest in AmeriCorps
service and an increase in service in
general, and there's just not enough slots,"
Turner said.
If the law is fully funded, he
said, 2010 could see an increase
of about 10 percent with one or
two nonprofits added. By 2014 he
said he thinks that the GCSV
could fund 1,500 AmeriCorps vol-
unteers and add one or two new
nonprofits per year.
He also is excited about a pro-
vision of the law that allows his
agency to fund five new types of
organizations: those that support
education, clean energy, healthy futures,
opportunity (economic development) and
veterans issues.
The bill passed the U.S. Senate with over-
whelming bipartisan support. It received
79 votes, including those of Orrin Hatch, R-
Utah, John McCain, R-Ariz., Kennedy,
D-Mass., and both Georgia Republicans,
Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.
The law is an authorization, which means
Congress must now appropriate the funds.
Among those Georgians who were involved
in the bill's passage were Eric Tanenblatt,
former chief of staff to Gov. Sonny Perdue
and now a presidentially appointed member
of the board for the Corporation for
National and Community Service, and
Michelle Nunn, CEO of the Points of Light
Institute. Both were present at the
signing ceremony.
Nunn said Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta,
had significant input on the bill, including
provisions for the creation of a disaster
relief corps and to make an educational
award for volunteers nontaxable. In all,
Nunn said the law had "disproportionate
civic leadership from Georgia."
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