Learn and Serve America has its roots in Serve America, a program created under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to distribute grants in support of service-learning in order to simultaneously enrich the education of young people, demonstrate the value of youth as assets to their communities, and stimulate service-learning as a strategy to meet unmet community needs.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed legislation creating the Corporation for National and Community Service, bringing a full range of domestic community service programs under the umbrella of one central organization. Serve America was integrated into the new Corporation, along with AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, and is now known as Learn and Serve America.

View legislation governing the Coporation for National and Community Service and its programs.

• The National and Community Service Act of 1990 [As amended through December 17, 1999, P.L. 106-170] (593 K PDF)

• The Domestic Volunteer Service Act [as amended by Public Law 106-170, approved December 17, 1999] (80K PDF)

The Corporation and Learn and Serve America are significant and valuable developments in our country's long history of encouraging and supporting civic engagement. It is a history that has long embraced public-private partnerships as essential elements of community’s efforts to improve and enhance community and neighborhood conditions. Learn More About the History of Service-Learning.

Budget

Information on the Corporation for National and Community Service's budget can be found at http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/role_impact/budget.asp.