Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Program

Borntwice has already posted something about the bills, on this...

https://lordismyshepherd.forumotion.com/north-american-news-f4/indoctrination-of-our-children-begins-now-don-t-know-quite-what-to-make-of-this-just-yet-folks-t1152.htm

Then this morning I received this in an email! Forced Volunteerism, under the heaing of:"civil security force plan", and in other words: "'universal service' and 'required'."



American Brown Shirts? Yes We Can!


Excerpt:

Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.

(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:

(I am skipping here to article # 7)

7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

Excerpt:

The civilian national security force bill has already passed in the House in a vote of 321-105 and will now go to the Senate. It will then go to President Obama for the final stamp of approval. And I imagine if anyone says 'nay' to him, he will answer, "YES WE CAN!"

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/3#3431

H.R.1388
GIVE Act (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)

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`SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS .

`(a) Prohibited Activities - A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities :

`(1) Attempting to influence legislation.

`(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

`(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.

`(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

`(5) Engaging in partisan political activities , or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.

`(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.

`(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

`( Providing a direct benefit to--

`(A) a business organized for profit;

`(B) a labor organization;

`(C) a partisan political organization;

`(D) a nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative; and

`(E) an organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (7), unless Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities .

`(9) Conducting a voter registration drive or using Corporation funds to conduct a voter registration drive.

`(10) Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit.

`(b) Ineligible Organizations - No assistance provided under this subtitle may be provided to the following types of organizations (including the participation of a participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle in activities conducted by such organizations ) or to organizations that are co-located on the same premises as the following organizations :

`(1) Organizations that provide or promote abortion services, including referral for such services.

`(2) For-profit organizations , political parties, labor organizations , or organizations engaged in political or legislative advocacy.

`(3) Organizations that have been indicted for voter fraud.

`(c) Nondisplacement of Employed Workers or Other Volunteers- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not perform any services or duties or engage in activities which--

`(1) would otherwise be performed by an employed worker as part of his or her assigned duties as an employee or by another volunteer who is not a participant in an approved national service position; or

`(2) will supplant the hiring of employed workers or work of such other volunteers.'.

SEC. 1305. ASSISTANCE TO STATE COMMISSIONS; CHALLENGE GRANTS.

Section 126 (42 U.S.C. 12576) is amended--

(1) in subsection (a)--

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking `$125,000 and $750,000' and inserting `$250,000 and $1,000,000'; and

(B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:

`(2) MATCHING REQUIREMENT- In making grants to a State under this subsection, the Corporation shall require the State to provide matching funds of $1 from non-Federal sources for every $1 provided by the Corporation.

`(3) ALTERNATIVE- Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the Chief Executive Officer may permit a State that demonstrates hardship or a new State Commission to use an alternative match as follows:

`(A) FIRST $100,000- For the first $100,000 of grant amounts provided by the Corporation, a State shall not be required to provide matching funds.

`(B) AMOUNTS GREATER THAN $100,000- For grant amounts of more than $100,000 and not exceeding $250,000 provided by the Corporation, a State shall provide $1 from non-Federal sources for every $2 provided by the Corporation in excess of $100,000.

`(C) AMOUNTS GREATER THAN $250,000- For grant amounts of more than $250,000 provided by the Corporation, a State shall provide $1 from non-Federal sources for every $1 provided by the Corporation in excess of $250,000.

`(4) RESERVATION OF FUNDS- From the amounts appropriated to carry out this subsection each fiscal year, the corporation shall ensure that it reserves funds for assistance provided under this subsection at an aggregate amount equal to that of at least 150 percent allocated in fiscal year 2004 for the first full fiscal year after the date of enactment of the GIVE Act. Each subsequent year the corporation shall increase the amount reserved proportionately including minimum and maximum amounts described in paragraph (1) to the amount of program funding allocated in subtitle C.';

(2) in subsection (b), by striking the period and inserting `and to support, including through mission-assignments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5147), nonprofit organizations and public agencies responding to the needs of communities in disasters.'; and

(3) in subsection (c)--

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking `to national service programs that receive assistance under section 121' and inserting `to programs supported under the national service laws'; and

(B) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:

`(3) AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE- A challenge grant under this subsection may provide, for an initial 3-year grant period, not more than $1 of assistance under this subsection for each $1 in cash raised from private sources by the program supported under the national service laws in excess of amounts required to be provided by the program to satisfy matching funds requirements. After an initial 3-year grant period, grants under this subsection may provide not more than $1 of assistance for each $2 in cash raised from private sources by the program in excess of amounts required to be provided by the program to satisfy matching funds requirements. The Corporation may permit the use of local or State funds as matching funds if the Corporation determines that such use would be equitable due to a lack of available private funds at the local level. The Corporation shall establish a ceiling on the amount of assistance that may be provided to a national service program under this subsection.'.

SEC. 1306. ALLOCATION OF ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHER ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.

Section 129 (42 U.S.C. 12581) is amended to read as follows:

`SEC. 129. PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE AND APPROVED NATIONAL SERVICE POSITIONS.

`(a) 1-Percent Allotment for Certain Territories- Of the funds allocated by the Corporation for provision of assistance under section 121(a) for a fiscal year, the Corporation shall reserve 1 percent for grants to the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands upon approval by the Corporation of an application submitted under section 130. The amount allotted as a grant to each such Territory under this subsection for a fiscal year shall be equal to the amount that bears the same ratio to 1 percent of the allocated funds for that fiscal year as the population of the Territory bears to the total population of such Territories.

`(b) Allotment for Indian Tribes- Of the funds allocated by the Corporation for provision of assistance under section 121(a) for a fiscal year, the Corporation shall reserve at least 1 percent for grants to Indian tribes, to be allotted by the Corporation on a competitive basis.

`(c) Reservation of Approved Positions- The Corporation shall ensure that each individual selected during a fiscal year for assignment as a VISTA volunteer under title I of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4951 et seq.) or as a participant in the Civilian Community Corps Demonstration Program under subtitle E shall receive the national service educational award described in subtitle D if the individual satisfies the eligibility requirements for the award. Funds for approved national service positions required by this paragraph for a fiscal year shall be deducted from the total funding for approved national service positions to be available for distribution under subsections (d) and (e) for that fiscal year.

`(d) Allotment for Competitive Grants- Of the funds allocated by the Corporation for provision of assistance under section 121(a) for a fiscal year and subject to section 133(d)(3), the Corporation shall reserve up to 62.7 percent for grants awarded on a competitive basis to States for national service programs and to nonprofit organizations seeking to operate a national service program in 2 or more States.

`(e) Allotment to Certain States on Formula Basis-

`(1) GRANTS- Of the funds allocated by the Corporation for provision of assistance under subsection (a) of section 121 for a fiscal year, the Corporation shall make a grant to each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that submits an application under section 130 that is approved by the Corporation.

`(2) ALLOTMENTS- The amount allotted as a grant to each such State under this subsection for a fiscal year shall be equal to the amount that bears the same ratio to 35.3 percent of the allocated funds for that fiscal year as the population of the State bears to the total population of the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in compliance with paragraph (3).

`(3) MINIMUM AMOUNT- Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the minimum grant made available to each State approved by the Corporation under paragraph (1) for each fiscal year must be at least $600,000, or 0.5 percent of the amount allocated for the State formula under this section, whichever is greater.

`(f) Effect of Failure To Apply- If a State or Territory fails to apply for, or fails to give notice to the Corporation of its intent to apply for an allotment under this section, or the Corporation does not approve the application consistent with section 133, the Corporation may use the amount that would have been allotted under this section to the State or Territory to--

`(1) make grants (and provide approved national service positions in connection with such grants) to other community-based entities under section 121 that propose to carry out national service programs in such State or Territory; and

`(2) make a reallotment to other States or Territories with approved applications submitted under section 130, to the extent community-based organizations do not apply as described in paragraph (1).

`(g) Application Required- The allotment of assistance and approved national service positions to a recipient under this section shall be made by the Corporation only pursuant to an application submitted by a State or other applicant under section 130.

`(h) Approval of Positions Subject to Available Funds- The Corporation may not approve positions as approved national service positions under this subtitle for a fiscal year in excess of the number of such positions for which the Corporation has sufficient available funds in the National Service Trust for that fiscal year, taking into consideration funding needs for national service educational awards under subtitle D based on completed service. If appropriations are insufficient to provide the maximum allowable national service educational awards under subtitle D for all eligible participants, the Corporation is authorized to make necessary and reasonable adjustments to program rules.

`(i) Sponsorship of Approved National Service Positions-

`(1) SPONSORSHIP AUTHORIZED- The Corporation may enter into agreements with persons or entities who offer to sponsor national service positions for which the person or entity will be responsible for supplying the funds necessary to provide a national service educational award. The distribution of these approved national service positions shall be made pursuant to the agreement, and the creation of these positions shall not be taken into consideration in determining the number of approved national service positions to be available for distribution under this section.

`(2) DEPOSIT OF CONTRIBUTION- Funds provided pursuant to an agreement under paragraph (1) shall be deposited in the National Service Trust established in section 145 until such time as the funds are needed.

`(j) Reservation of Funds for Special Assistance- From amounts appropriated for a fiscal year pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 501(a)(2) and subject to the limitation in such section, the Corporation may reserve such amount as the Corporation considers to be appropriate for the purpose of making assistance available under subsections (b) and (c) of section 126.

`(k) Reservation of Funds To Increase the Participation of Individuals With Disabilities-

`(1) RESERVATION- To make grants to public or private nonprofit organizations to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in national service and for demonstration activities in furtherance of this purpose, and subject to the limitation in paragraph (2), the Chief Executive Officer shall reserve not less than 1 percent from the amount allocated to carry out program grants under the national service laws.

`(2) LIMITATION- The amount reserved in paragraph (1) may not exceed $10,000,000.

`(3) REMAINDER- After making grants under subsection (k), excess funds may be used by the Chief Executive Officer for other activities under section 501(a)(2).

`(l) Authority for Fixed-Amount Grants-

`(1) IN GENERAL-

`(A) AUTHORITY- From amounts appropriated for a fiscal year to provide financial assistance under the national service laws, the Corporation, subject to the limitation in subparagraph (B) may provide assistance in the form of fixed-amount grants in an amount determined by the Corporation under paragraph (2) rather than on the basis of actual costs incurred by a program.

`(B) LIMITATION- Other than fixed-amount grants to support programs described in section 129A, for the 1-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the GIVE Act, the Corporation may provide assistance in the form of fixed-amount grants only to support full-time positions.

`(2) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF FIXED-AMOUNT GRANTS- A fixed-amount grant authorized by this subsection shall be in an amount determined by the Corporation that is--

`(A) significantly less than the reasonable and necessary costs of administering the program receiving the grant; and

`(B) based on the amount per individual enrolled in the program receiving the grant, taking into account--

`(i) the program's capacity to manage funds and achieve programmatic results;

`(ii) the number of national service positions approved for the program;

`(iii) the proposed design of the program;

`(iv) whether the program provides service to or involves the participation of disadvantaged youth or otherwise would reasonably incur a relatively higher level of costs; and

`(v) such other factors as the Corporation may consider under section 133 in considering applications for assistance.

`(3) REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANT RECIPIENTS- In awarding a fixed-amount grant under this subsection, the Corporation--

`(A) shall require the grant recipient--

`(i) to return a pro rata amount of the grant funds based upon the difference between the number of hours served by a participant and the minimum number of hours for completion of a term of service (as established by the Corporation);

`(ii) to report on standardized and other performance measures established by the Corporation;

`(iii) to cooperate with any evaluation activities undertaken by the Corporation; and

`(iv) to provide assurances that additional funds shall be raised in support of the proposed program, in addition to those received under the national service laws; and

`(B) may adopt other terms and conditions as it considers necessary or appropriate based on the relative risks (as determined by the Corporation) associated with any application for a fixed-amount grant.

`(4) OTHER REQUIREMENTS NOT APPLICABLE- Limitations on administrative costs and matching fund documentation requirements shall not apply to fixed-amount grants provided in accordance with this subsection.

`(5) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION- Nothing in this subsection shall relieve a grant recipient of the responsibility to comply with the requirements of the Single Audit Act (31 U.S.C. 7501 et seq.) or other requirements of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133.

`(m) No Matching Funds Requirement for Severely Economically Distressed Communities- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a severely economically distressed community that receives assistance from the Corporation for any program under the national service laws shall not be subject to any requirement to provide matching funds for any such program, and the Federal share of such assistance for such a community may be 100 percent.'.

SEC. 1307. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY.

Part II of subtitle C of title I is amended by inserting after section 129 (42 U.S.C. 12581) the following:

`SEC. 129A. EDUCATION AWARDS ONLY PROGRAM.

`(a) In General- From amounts appropriated for a fiscal year to provide financial assistance under this subtitle and consistent with the restriction in subsection (b), the Corporation may, through fixed-amount grants (in accordance with section 129(l)), provide operational assistance to programs that receive approved national service positions but do not receive funds under section 121(a).

`(b) Limit on Corporation Grant Funds- Operational support under this section may not exceed $800 per individual enrolled in an approved national service position and may reach $1000 per individual if the program supports at least 50 percent disadvantaged youth.

`(c) Adjustments for Inflation- For each year after 2009, the amounts specified in subsection (b) shall be adjusted for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers published by the Secretary of Labor.

`(d) Inapplicable Provisions- The provisions under section 129(l)(4) and the living allowances and other benefits under sections 131(e) and section 140 (other than individualized support services for disabled members under section 140(f)) shall not apply to programs that receive assistance under this section.'.

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