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The primary role of REACT volunteers was to stand and watch on CB Emergency Channel 9 to help motorists. Later, duties grew to include radio communications after disasters (e.g., tornadoes and floods), and before disasters (storm spotting). REACT safety communications for parades, runs/walks, and other community events also became prominent.
ACTION was a United States government agency described as "the federal domestic volunteer agency". [1] It was formed July 1, 1971, [2] during President Richard Nixon's first term under the provisions of Reorganization Plan Number One, and Executive Order 11603, June 30, 1971, to provide centralized coordination and administration of Government-sponsored domestic and international volunteer ...
The National Center for Voluntary Action was an independent, private, non-profit organization that existed in the 1970s, and then extended on in merged forms, that sought to encourage volunteerism on the part of American citizens and organizations, assist in program development for voluntary efforts, and sought to make voluntary action an important force in American society.
Waterloo is an unincorporated community in Kingman County, Kansas, United States. [1] History. The post office in Waterloo closed in 1912. [2] Education.
In 1964, the U.S. poverty rate (income-based) included 19 percent of Americans. Rising political forces demanded change. Under a new White House Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the concept of the federally-funded, local Community Action Program (CAP)—delivered by a local Community Action Agency (CAA), in a nationwide Community Action Network—would become the primary vehicle for a new ...
Voluntary Action Center (VAC) is an American local non-profit organization based in DeKalb County, Illinois that seeks to help people meet their basic transportation and nutrition needs through the efforts of volunteers. VAC was incorporated in 1974 and provides services in DeKalb, Bureau, LaSalle, Kendall, and Putnam Counties.
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The HandsOn Network was a non-profit organization focusing on community service based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.It sought to bring people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action, and mobilized some half million volunteers in communities inside and outside the United States.